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My aunt called our house today.  She lives in Tennesee.  She was telling us that they’ve had so much rain this month that they have not been able to get outside and rake up the leaves in their yard. This really bothers her. she likes to have a nice looking yard and the leaves are laying in layers and bunches out there - taunting her. So today she is expecting a break in the weather. Sunshine, low wind and temperatures that will let you work in just a flannel shirt instead of a heavy winter jacket.

I just had to laugh at the conversation because our yard is buried in about eighteen inches of snow!  If there are any leaves out there on OUR lawn, we can’t see them!

If you have a big family, I suspect you know all too well the stress of hosting a big family gathering. Whether it is a sit down dinner for everyone or a buffet or a pot luck, getting ready to feed a large crowd takes a lot of planning and energy.Time to roll up our sleeves and get cooking.

We hope to have a few of the closer family members stop by this afternoon and then we’ll host another get-together on New Year’s Day for the other family members who can’t make it here on Christmas Day.

Here’s hoping our holidays are warm and bright. Merry Christmas!

Best wishes to you and your family for a wonderful day of feasting and thankfulness. Maybe a parade inthe morning and some football in the afternoon would be nice, too. Or get up extremely early and go deer hunting. Whichever way you choose to take advantage of the holiday, I hope it works out well for you and that you enjoy your day.

Tomorrow we are making our annual leaf-peeping trip up to Bar Harbor.  This is the perfect time to go there; we take the US 1 scenic route along the coast, and we take our sweet time.  We stop along the way and have a meal at one of the many lobster shacks that proclaim to be the “best” lobster shack in the state.  I love having a lobster roll sandwich and freshly made french fries. 

We plan to go to the top of Mt Desert and take in the beautiful panoramic view that words cannot even bring justice to describe!  I wonder if we’ll see any cruise ships at anchor in the harbor.  Then we’ll go into town and walk along the Main street, window shopping at some places; going into others.  We’ll all buy a “Cool as a Moose” sweatshirt - that’s a tradition we can’t break!

It will be a long day, but I’m looking forward to it.  One of my favorite days of the year!

Today my Dad asked me to go with him to Home Depot to help him bring some sheets of plywood home.  I thought this was going to be a quick trip into town and back again, so I said yes.  Much to my chagrin, the trip was not just to Home Depot, it was also to Auto Advance.  “I’ll only be a couple of minutes, honey, I just need to buy some oil and a filter.”  So I waited in the car, reading the Sunday paper, for forty-five minutes!  Finally I decided I’d better go inside and find him and drag him out of there.  I found him standing in line at the check-out counter, with much more than some oil and a filter in his hands!

The cashier was incredibly slow in processing the order, and I was getting tired and cranky, anxious to get home before even getting to Home Depot!  We headed off to Home Depot, where once inside he met an old friend that he hadn’t seen in months and so he had to chat with him for a half hour before even getting through the door!  So I went into Home Depot and started shopping from the list we had made up, to get things going.

Lesson learned, next time Dad says “would you come with me to…….” if I want to get home within the same four hour period of time, the answer should be NO!