Checking Inside the Box

we went to price on mom's birthday and i found some amaryllis bulbs.  i chose three different ones and planted them when we got home.  one came out of the box all bent and white.  it looked deformed.  dennis asked me if i had checked inside the box before i bought them.  he is a checker.  he will spend lots of time checking and comparing items and their packing before he buys.  i rarely do this because i don't notice the minute differences he is able to perceive.

i think it all stems from me being more of an optimist than he is.  i usually expect things will turn out, what we buy is what is shown on the package and no one is trying to pull one over on us.

    

anyway, i felt kind of bad about the amaryllis, but not completely hopeless.  i put it on the window sill with the others and turned it so it bent away from the window.  and things turned out just the way i hoped.  the little bulb was drawn to the light and within about a week it was straight and green.

now look at it.  it is the big one on the right.  i'm glad that december is also a time of blossoming.

i think dennis should be thankful i'm not the sort of person who checks inside the box.  and, yes, it's probably good that he's the sort who does.

fuller family christmas and last weekend

here are the pictures of the fuller christmas eve party that i promised (better late than never is my motto):

 dennis took this picture, it is blurry because he didn't know you push the button down partway and then wait.  i guess he thought that by sheer brute force he could mash the button down, resulting in three blurry pictures.  he was panicked, thinking that the camera took bad pictures, but we reassured him it was just him.

 i tried to get pics of everyone but realize now that the only picture of jarret moulton is this little sliver of his face.  he must be camera shy.  i guess melissa is camera shy too because i can't find one picture of her even though she was the hostess of this feast.  where were you hiding melissa?

shannon is not camera shy, praise be.

and now for photos of the spaghetti dinner hosted by melanie:

 i think dennis got a hold of the camera again because here is another blurry picture of dominick.

 jared was puzzling over my ipad in this photo.

 glad we got a better shot of jarret.

 and melissa could run, but she couldn't hide this time.

 our only pic of the cook, she was moving so fast this was the best we could do.

i have other pictures but they are either so blurry as to be unrecognizable or truly unflattering and i am a merciful woman.  if only i had gotten some pics of grandma in the hospital, but i bet she's glad i didn't.