celebrating the Christmas season

During the night, I noticed that the stool would not stop running, so I went to get some advice at the coffee table, knowing I needed to get a new fill valve. I got one at the hardware store and installed it as best I could, but I could not get it to stop leaking. I almost did but never completely. I went to my can-do-it-all friend with the depression problem, and he came and made the final adjustment to stop the leak. What a guy. Evelyn meantime baked some of the cookies she prepared yesterday and went off to tour one of the local newspapers with the Ladies Leisure. She is not in charge as she was last season and can enjoy going as just a lady this season. I also received more information about the cruise and train trip we are planning in April. I think we will end up shortening the trip due to the high cost of going through the Canadian Rockies. We may have to wait until we can see them from Heaven’s heights. Evelyn had planned to be home at 2:30 but didn’t arrive until 4:00. I had made an appointment to have the car inspected for the state at 4 so I drove to the garage at 4:15. It was closed. I returned and found Evelyn asleep. I watched some of the sports shows featuring writers arguing with each other about things that happened yesterday in the world of sports and then printed the information about the rail trip for Evelyn to read. I woke her and put together a sausage sandwich for our dinner. We dressed and went to get our friends from MN to attend a Christmas concert with them in Harlingen. I thought we would drive our car, but they insisted I drive theirs. We left far too early and had to stand around until we were allowed to enter the auditorium for seating. The concert was expensive but beautifully done. There was a large orchestra and two large choirs. As the concert moved on, I really gained a great deal of respect and admiration for people who arrange music for large orchestras. Just knowing when to have this trumpet or that piccolo play a note or two is amazing and beautiful when all put together. We left happy and drove back to our friends’ house. They wanted to go for a hamburger, but we have too many responsibilities tomorrow and needed to get to bed.