where did you get the snow kiwonkers???ours all disappeared---more to come this week though---today i dragged dh and ds into the woods to get my little evergreens for the porch display---tomorrow i am getting me 10 wreaths---my cousin's wife works for a wreathmaking company and she sells them herself for five bucks a piece {that's minus five dollars american}---THE CHRISTMAS PEEPS I GOT ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD---THEY TASTE LIKE GINGERBREAD AND ARE SHAPED LIKE GINGERBREAD MEN----THEY ARE TAN COLOURED ---I ADORE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bagz is so selfish. Down here in Dogpatch we don't have any candy at all. It sounds like you're surrounded with huge bags of it.

Yeah, she's got Halloween candy and Christmas candy. At least I don't have Christmas candy yet. I want to experiment with Peeps. Sounds diabolical.

We went to the movies with real-life friend-type people this afternoon and had dinner with them 'n' everything like that. We saw Bowling for Columbine. Wow, that was a movie! Very documentaryish, but funny too. We spent most of dinner talking about it.

We've been getting a little snow here and there, Bagz. It snowed pretty hard late Friday. Not a big accumulation, but enough to look pretty.

DH got his Christmas present today. A new guitar. Of course he picked it out himself. But it will save a lot of people from trying to figure out what he wants. I need to wrap presents this week so I can send some of them to NC to be there when we get there.

Kiwi <--isn't that Christmas-y?

Why thank you Peachbutt. I'm touched.

Hiyas. We have no snow, only sunshine & cold. DH has blown all the leaves away with his new gas powered leaf blower. Christmas displays: Lights up outside. Pine garland (fake of course) w/ twinkle lights & purdy bows up the staircase railing & around front doors. Mini tree w/ mini ornaments up in kitchen, along w/ Christmas cookie jar, & other Christmas kitchen kitsch. Big clay pot full of cedar, pine & holly collected from woods by back door. Boxes of Christmas stuff scattered around front room.

We are now feuding w/ DH's sister, who thinks that even though FIL is almost 90, w/ only one good eye (needs other cataract removed) and no hearing that he is perfectly capable of driving to Phoenix, to build a patio cover for her boyfriend. This would, I assume involve him climbing on ladders and lifting lumber overhead. FIL just drove to Phoenix and back earlier this month. He came home Saturday w/ his car on a tow truck. One of his wheels came off it about 100 miles from home. Thank goodness he wasn't hurt, and he didn't hurt anyone else. This time. How do you take away the car keys?

I think we have Peeps here. I'll have to check. I'm not sure why.

Turnips are turnips and rubabagas are not. Yams aren't sweet potatoes either.

I YAM what I YAM and that's all that I YAM,
Brattie

Wabby, I think a whole life philosophy can be built around the statement, "Turnips are turnips and rubabagas are not. Yams aren't sweet potatoes either." That was profound.
I don't know what you do about the car keys. I have a friend who reported her dad to Motor Vehicles, they called him in for the test and took his license. He never realized it was her. Can you do that on your coast? The government is so intrusive here, they even manage family relationships.
Dd has announced that she has no intention of going to college right out of High School. She wants to travel or sing full time. She plans to go at 19. Who will pay for this?
I do not understand Peeps for Christmas. Please explain. Note: they don't taste good at Easter, why would someone add them to another holiday, particularly one that includes Mint Lentils.
I'm up because I made DS10 stay up and finish his book report. He does not consider school a priority. I hold up my other two as evidence that this is not my fault. I have to be so MEAN to him to get him to do his work. I'm so glad he isn't my first or only child because I would have no idea what he should be doing and he would be failing. AND I would look at people with kids like my first two and think it was the parents who inspired the kids to work so hard. Untrue. My first two are completely self motivated. This last one has not one bit of interest in getting above a C in anything. He plays sports, draws and skateboards. That's it. Anything else is a huge battle.
I'm tired, I'm going to bed. I have to be at Wally World at 7am to get a print cartridge to print tonight's homework. Nigh-Night

Excuse me. I spelled rutabagas incorrectly. I blame this on living w/ my DH all these years. I used to be an excellent speller until I started hanging around him. He's an absolutely horrible speller, but so cute I can't resist him.

My Dr. called to tell me my gall bladder is loaded w/ gall stones. She wants me to go see a surgeon. I don't want to. What if he wants to operate on my recently reconstructed tummy? How much pain can I endure to avoid a scar? Will Peaches consider this just another self improvement scheme?

Lush, both my kids were like your DS10. Which explains why my DS is doing manual labor & DD is a bartender. You might want to mention that to your DS10.

Have y'all wandered into another thread and seen that woman who calls herself Cyan? That picture is quite annoyingly gorgeous. If I could be good looking like Cyan and Wabby, I'd do it. Gallstones though? How do you get those?

On Thanksgiving I had dinner with my friend from work and her family and their guests from New Orleans (the ones who think that Boxing Day is when Canadians express thanks for the bounty God gave that year). She told me that they exchanged Christmas gifts as the man of that NO couple is an old friend. When my friend's dh opened his gift, he and everyone else was quite surprised. It was a shirt with the anti-shop-lifting tag still attached. The NO woman, who had apparently purchased (?) the shirt with her boyfriend's money, immediately said, "That little f*g (can I say that?) forgot to remove the tag."

How could she have gotten out of the store? How can they get the tag off? How could she be so bold? So idiotic? So frightening?

I have no mint lentils. Nor mint m&ms. I only have cilantro.