Thanksgiving Feasting, Snoozing, Bowling.
12:03pm Friday November 28, 1997

Before I even woke this morning, Janis had left to go shopping!  She was out of the house ~7am.  Now that's one hardcore shopper.
Yesterday's Thanksgiving feast at Uncle Dave's was awesome.  I fasted until the gorging began at around 2pm.  As a treat, I made Donna Mae Carney's famous whipped cottage cheese & garlic.  Just made the meal for me.  Well, I guess the turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, marshmellow fruit salad, black olives, green olives, peas & carrots, rolls & butter, and stuffing (oh the stuffing) helped :-)  Had just one helping, one rather large helping.  I think I was the last one eating.  

I immediately hit the couch for a snooze.  Someone turned on a football game.  That's guaranteed to put me out.  Zonked in minutes.  Then the kiddos dragged me into the basement for some pool, but I zonked on the couch down there.  At five it was time for the traditional Thanksgiving family bowling.  I was still more interested in snoozing.  But we had fun.  Uncle Dave was Mr Kingpin, bowler extradinaire.  Janis was whacking down the pins pretty well herself.  Kids had their ups and downs.  Managed to have some fun in there somewhere.

Back at Uncle Dave's we played "Guesstures" and "Taboo".  Mary amazed us at her ability to act out the secret words of "Guesstures".  Emma did pretty good too.  It's always fun to have extended family fun like that.  I like it that Emma is beginning to read well and can play right along with the adults.

We should have watched the weather better.  The snowstorm was coming down so bad that by the time I had brushed off the van windows once, I had to go round again.  Driving on the interstate was spooky.  The thick flakes gave that "spiraling down into a tunnel" effect.  Luckily I could usually just follow the taillights in front of me.  By the time we got to northern Denver, the snow had changed to a thick rain.  There's no snow here at all!

On the home bones & fossil front: the vinac finally arrived in the mail.  I ordered the museum quality consolidator earlier this month, and have been anxiously awaiting its arrival.  I got a pound of the little plastic beads that disolve in acetone (nail polish remover).  It's the perfect stuff to paint onto a fragile fossil.  It seeps into the fossil, consolidating it, keeping it from crumbling.  Mary just helped me paint one of our Cretacious onercerimus clams that we had found north of Vail.  We found a couple of the >65 million year old crustacians along a roadside in an exposure of Mancos shale.