All Things Holiday.
Posted by Kevin.....
Yesterday I put 4 packages in the mail, and I put about 30 cards in the mail today. It doesn't matter anymore if they get there on time. I figure if something arrives the day after Christmas, it's like I'm prolonging the Joy of the season!
We've been receiving packages too.
Like a 13 year old juvenile delinquent, the UPS driver keeps ringing our door bell and running away, leaving behind suspicious brown packages.
I then have to retrieve the abandoned brown packages off the porch before they are ravaged by packs of squirrels. (My folks send us gourmet peanuts every year!)
Earlier this week it was the hamfisted UPS workers, not squirrels, that damaged the contents a package from Stace's folks. It broke our hearts to have to open the present early after hearing the rattle of broken glass inside.
The beautiful, one of a kind, handmade platter was packaged to withstand a tornado: it was double bubble wrapped (with the large size bubble wrap no less), then placed in a box 3 times larger than it needed to be. Every inch of space was then packed with large Styrofoam peanuts. The plate was firmly suspended in the middle of the box by the packaging. It took us about a minute to get it out of there.
Later, UPS picked up the box. It seems they will be making amends to Stace's folks.
And finally, the Holiday fruit basket.
Stace came home last night with this 30 pound fruit basket- a gift from her employer. Everyone who works there got one. We both were blown away by the abundance of our bountiful harvest:
10 oranges
10 apples
12 bananas (that's a whole "bunch"!)
6 grapefruit
4 kiwis
3 lemons
3 limes
6 packs of hot chocolate
4 packs of cider
1 giant pineapple
Apparently there is a large concern that some of the employees may be suffering from scurvy.
To keep the fruit from going bad, Stace and I will have to have mixed tropical drinks every night (several per night) for the next week!
I'm not sure if that qualifies as "a problem" or not.
Yesterday I put 4 packages in the mail, and I put about 30 cards in the mail today. It doesn't matter anymore if they get there on time. I figure if something arrives the day after Christmas, it's like I'm prolonging the Joy of the season!
We've been receiving packages too.
Like a 13 year old juvenile delinquent, the UPS driver keeps ringing our door bell and running away, leaving behind suspicious brown packages.
I then have to retrieve the abandoned brown packages off the porch before they are ravaged by packs of squirrels. (My folks send us gourmet peanuts every year!)
Earlier this week it was the hamfisted UPS workers, not squirrels, that damaged the contents a package from Stace's folks. It broke our hearts to have to open the present early after hearing the rattle of broken glass inside.
The beautiful, one of a kind, handmade platter was packaged to withstand a tornado: it was double bubble wrapped (with the large size bubble wrap no less), then placed in a box 3 times larger than it needed to be. Every inch of space was then packed with large Styrofoam peanuts. The plate was firmly suspended in the middle of the box by the packaging. It took us about a minute to get it out of there.
Later, UPS picked up the box. It seems they will be making amends to Stace's folks.
And finally, the Holiday fruit basket.
Stace came home last night with this 30 pound fruit basket- a gift from her employer. Everyone who works there got one. We both were blown away by the abundance of our bountiful harvest:
10 oranges
10 apples
12 bananas (that's a whole "bunch"!)
6 grapefruit
4 kiwis
3 lemons
3 limes
6 packs of hot chocolate
4 packs of cider
1 giant pineapple
Apparently there is a large concern that some of the employees may be suffering from scurvy.
To keep the fruit from going bad, Stace and I will have to have mixed tropical drinks every night (several per night) for the next week!
I'm not sure if that qualifies as "a problem" or not.
posted by Kevin and Stace @ 1:02 PM
2 Comments:
At 6:25 PM,
Anonymous said…
Well, thank god, at least no one sent you pears!
At 6:15 PM,
Anonymous said…
YES! Thank you Marie and family for the pears! And of course the five other boxes of GREAT stuff we just got in the mail. (I had to open them all to see what needed refrigeration.)
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