"Boxing day" has to be explained, so if you need an explanation follow the link. I've heard other explanations than the ones recorded here, but these are also ones have heard. For us it is a quiet day. After the drive back from Douglasville (90 minutes) we have a quick breakfast, including some real coffee (a rare treat these days) and then take things easy. Jo and Karen go off to Hobby Lobby to get wool and other places for bits and pieces for lunch. Robert and I skype with Andy, Jess and Leo.
After lunch Karen and I watch Dr Who: The snowmen (2012 Christmas special), and the introduction of the new assistant. Neither of us like the line about a family crying on Christmas eve, nor do we like the idea that 'Sherlock and her assistant' are married. In places it is too flippant. Otherwise its a good story and develops a new mystery for the series to unravel. The new assistant seems to be a good character.
In the evening we went to one of Roberts friends for a meal. Robert had spent the afternoon cooking a turkey, so we were all hungry, having smelt the turkey cooking. They have a new house, on a new estate (don't know the american word), where the (p)lots are marked out, but only some of the houses built. That strikes me as a much better system - get the land, then get the house built as you want it. That way you don't have to rely on a builder to complete the whole estate.
There was more new food to try, okra - which was OK, another cheese ball (lovely), macaroni cheese (solid, not with runny cheese sauce), very nice, green beans (not salted, very nice), cabbage (very nice), grits with cheese (very nice) and ham and of course turkey. It was a lovely meal, but a complete diet breaker!
The food was served buffet style. Before we were invited to collect our food our host gave thanks to the Lord. It is so good to be in a house where I don't have to remember to give my own thanks silently.
As a special treat they had found Christmas Crackers, so I was required to give them the run down about crackers. We pulled the crackers, they made a good 'crack' and we found the toy, jokes and paper hat. The jokes were awful, in the best tradition of the Christmas Cracker.
So, boxing day was quiet and relaxing, with good company and good food.
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