Candlelight

It’s time for the best church service of the year!  I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas.  That’s all.      

Wait for it, wait for it.

Well, this is it.  The last day of work (for me) before Christmas. My personal to do list is still kind of intense, but I don’t really care.  At this point, all of the big stuff is done.  Nobody cares if I wear wrinkly clothes over the weekend or if my house isn’t vacuumed before…

Tree Hunting

Today is Christmas tree hunting day.  I might sit in the blind for a while and quietly drink coffee while I scope out the lay of the land.  I’ll try not to scare away any of the prospective trees.  I’ll keep you posted.

Weekend Decompression

Okay, it was a big weekend.  For one thing, it was four and a half days long.  For another, it involved meeting lots of new (to me) people and going to lots of new (to me) places. “Good” would be an understatement for the weekend as a whole, but I haven’t had a chance to…

Happy!!

    Thanksgiving!!! If you haven’t jumped in a pile of leaves yet this year, I suggest that you change that immediately.  Just stay away from the leaves in my yard.  I have a dog.  It’s for your own good, I promise.

Packing Light

For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to pack light for a weekend trip.  Tell me that I’m moving to a foreign country for six months, and I can cram everything I need into two suitcases including sheets and towels and books and well, everything.  Tell me that I’m going a couple…

One Little Tradition

Thanksgiving is usually a holiday that I skip over to get to what’s next (read: Christmas).  But somewhere in the archives of my brain, I forgot about one Thanksgiving tradition that my family did maintain pretty carefully over the years.  It slipped my mind because it isn’t technically a Thanksgiving tradition in my family.  It…