Christmas Eve

As mentioned earlier people are invited to come here Christmas Eve. I'll call the local people to check on who can make it, but if you're coming just plan on bringing something yummy - anything from appetizers to desserts. The gathering time is nogotiable but for now let's aim for 5 p.m.

There will be a white elephant present opening. So bring something goofy. Something really unfortunate here is that one of our cats broke to smithereens the white elephant I got last year. It was priceless and now it's gone.

Here's are two modest rule proposals for the white elephant.

1. Nothing broken. The bell has to ring, the radio has to play, the water softener has to soften water.

2. If you participate, you have to bring it home with you! Nothing is to be left at our house or in our yard. And our our garbage can is considered part of our yard! And this includes all of our neighbor's houses and yards too!

Thanksgiving

Things went well at the Lindstrom's on Thanksgiving. I had a little mishap with my pumpkin pie (see right). Since George is no longer around to clean up my messes, I chopped it up, put it in a bowl and fed it to Steve. Alas, as you can see below, Heidi won the pie baking contest and just may be in contention to give Denise a challenge.

And here's proof that when the cat's away the mice will play.