We had Bobby and Ted's birthday dinner tonight. Bobby cooked steaks and I did the rest and it was excellent.
but the best thing about being together was the movie
that Bobby ordered.

Winter's Bone took place in the backwoods of Missouri. The
main way of life was cooking Meth. The actors were all
unknowns and it captured that sub-culture precisely. It
was a pitiful story of poverty and raw violence. Ellie
disliked it so much that she wouldn't watch it. She
couldn't deal with the darkness but it was so real. I
have been in places like that and so have Ted and Bobby.
I hope it gets the Acadamy Award because it deserves it
for portraying the way some people have to live.

We couldn't believe that it was almost two hours long.

I made a big spinach salad and it was all devoured. I made it
with an oil and vinegar dressing, avacados, bacon and let it
set until the spinach wilted. It was just a different version of the old wilted lettuce that I grew up on. My
mother made it all the time. When the first leaf lettuce
came out of the garden she fried a few strips of bacon,
mixed a bowl of baby lettuce with green onions and sometimes
boiled eggs and chips of the bacon, then poured some vinegar
in the bacon grease and poured it over the lettuce. Sounds
awful but it is so good.

I went to a friends surprise birthday party Saturday night.
She had no idea and all her friends, neighbors and family
went to a restaurant where her children had a room reserved.
There must have been fifty people there and all of them
were very nice. I had fun.

We had a visit from a salesman selling burial insurance.
Of course we chased him off. Little girls have been out
selling girl scout cookies but since Adrienne and Ashley
loaded me up we weren't susceptable. Alas, the good
weather is turning so cold again. Our foretaste of Spring
spoiled us.