Day 334 - November 30

I started making pieces of our Christmas cards over the weekend.  I've been so frustrated that I can't make a square peg fit in a round hole that the pieces continue to sit, sit, and sit on the coffee table while I steam.  I'm also waiting for one thing to come in from my November club order so I can assemble what I have, but I'm unhappy with how they're turning out.  I can't decide whether to cut my losses and start over, or to make do.  Grr....

Day 333 - November 29

I had a doctors appointment today, so I got to leave work early and commute while the sun was still up.  What a treat! :)  When I got home, I looked down and was so excited at what I saw!  Please ignore the giant green weed at the bottom and the dead brown weed towards the top.  Instead, blur your eyes a little to adjust for the lousy phone picture, and look at the beautiful blades of grass that are growing through the fertilizer/mulchy substance.  FINALLY!  We're hoping it continues to spread as quickly as it has for the past 2 days!

Day 332 - November 28

The living room is decorated for Christmas now.  A very full tree, our stockings, snowmen on the mantle, and my lighted houses on the shelves.  A working fireplace will be a nice addition, but we're waiting for the extra inspection in a couple weeks before we make a fire.

Day 331 - November 27

Today is my husband's birthday.  We headed to Duclaw for his free lunch with friends, and then home for birthday cake and football and house decorating.  (Well, the guys did a little more football watching and the girls did a little more house decorating, but you know.)  I always mock the watching of college football because we're watching kids up to 14 years younger than us who go to completely random schools - but both games they watched this afternoon at least featured the alma mater of the two boys watching.

The local ice cream place made an out of season "key lime pie" ice cream cake for him which came out really tasty.  I didn't realize they made ice cream pies until a recent facebook posting, so I was glad to find out at the right time of year!  :)

I dug into the bag of video games we've accumulated through recent sales and gave him one of those with his Ravens tickets for January.

It seems as though he enjoyed his day.  I think tomorrow is going to be more of the same.

Day 330 - November 26

Last night on the way home from dinner, we stopped for our 3rd annual Thanksgiving Day Michael's shopping fun.  Then, the car wouldn't start.  The anti theft system locked us out for some reason.  The computer needs to be reset.  Joy!  So we left the car there late last night with all the people who were sleeping out for black Friday.  This morning, we went back to wait for the Tow truck.  What an experience...I'm glad it's (almost) over. :) 

Day 329 - November 25

My pies ... our contribution to Thanksgiving.

Day 328 - November 24

The carnage from today's baking feast.  I made a regular pumpkin pie with a ginger snap crust and then a pumpkin swirl cheesecake too.  It took every mixing bowl we own. :)