...and the busiest! We're finishing up several projects for Christmas and trying to get the house prepared for the festivities. The boys started vacation this week, so they are helping me a lot. We're just about ready. I'm anxiously awaiting a couple of packages that contain gifts though. I really, really, really hope that they will be here in time!! Dad brought us home a very pretty 2 pound block of milk chocolate the other day. Yummy!! But, just about the last thing my waistline needed...
One of the projects that the boys and I are working on, (And look, I can write about it because the recipients aren't likely to read this blog!) is little fabric mice, filled with catnip. Each year our pets give gifts to the other pets in the family. This year, this is what Aly is giving her brothers, mother and other kitty friends. While we were trying to stitch up the mice this afternoon, Aly got right into the middle of everything. She thought it smelled heavenly! She rubbed and rolled and rubbed some more and made a royal mess of all the fabric and thread...and got catnip everywhere!
I stitched this for our youngest, it seemed appropriate.
The boys participated in their school's Christmas Concert last Thursday. They really didn't want to get up there in front of the crowd, but they both did very well.
Last week, our oldest dug me a path to the horse pasture. The next morning, all 3 horses were standing on it, just as if they couldn't go out into the snow. He got a real kick out of them using it!
We've gotten more than our share of snow in the past week. There's more than 2 feet on the ground at this point. CRAZY!!
And cold....brrr...it's been well below zero degrees Fahrenheit most nights and even during the days it hasn't gotten above the teens in a while. Really, that's too cold for so many snowstorms, but I guess Mother Nature hasn't noticed. The horses are wicked fuzzy!
Daisy woke us up barking, in the wee hours of Thursday morning. That was highly unusual, but Dad just figured she must have really needed to go out, so he grumbled and dragged himself out of bed and to the front door. However, when he opened the door, she put her tail between her legs and scooted back into the bedroom. So, he looked outside and there were firetrucks, with their lights flashing, down at the end of our driveway. Apparently they had woken up Daisy and she thought we should know about them. It turned out that the cabin up on the hill opposite us had a chimney fire. The bad part was that the fire department couldn't get any trucks up there! Our neighbor ended up letting them use his snowmobiles!! Anyway, they got the fire put out and no one was injured and there wasn't any property damage. But, the guy that lived up there decided that maybe it would stay a summer cabin after all, and he moved back to town...
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