The Christmas Letter...

The Fall leaves are gone and in the compost pile in the backyard. Which means it is about time to start the annual Christmas Letter. Since I retired I have been assigned this task for the last couple of years. I have spent part of the day sorting through all the photos I took during the last year and putting them in one collection. I needed to do this so WB could select the best one or two photos to put on the top of the letter. The next task will be to make the first rough draft. I need to insure that all the highlights of the year are covered and that nothing important is omitted. Than comes the reviews by WB and a couple of rewrites. And than off to the kids for a final edit and comments. And than hopefully I can publish. Than comes the big decision should we include a sheet of pictures showing what we did all year. Usually that is omitted but each year we think about it. And finally the big, who gets the letter. It goes to all brothers and sisters, kids, cousins, and some selected friends. A couple of copies are always held in reserve to send to that person who sent us their letter so off goes our letter. Each year I hear comments from folks who do not like the annual Christmas letter since it is mostly about look at what we did. But it is kind of fun to see what other folks do and to keep up on things.

Next on the agenda is the Christmas wish list. WB said only two presents per person. We will see how long that lasts.

My Wish list:
Bike Gloves, Med My old ones are becoming mostly holes.
Bike inner tubes 25*700c Presta value, short. Used my last one last Saturday.
Picture Mat making kit. maybe some mat board also.
Steamer for cooking vegetables etc.
Fabric cutter thing that looks like a pizza cutter.
Sony Alpha 700 DSLR with 18-70mm zoom. If MDT does better I may get this one from Santa. (or me)

I just new...

This weekend we went over to Mrs H's and helped clean the Craft Room. I just knew when I saw it. That when I was done helping I would find 5 yards of orange 1.3 oz sil nylon somewhere in there. But after being assigned color sorting and folding I came up empty handed. Oh well. I an fairly good at organizing and cleaning and we did make a great difference. The youngest will have a place to sleep when she goes over on Wed for Turkey day at Mr and Mrs H's. And Grandma and Grandpa had a good time with Biscuit.

As you can see the leaves on the tree are almost gone. I found this tractor for sale while on one of my rides last week. If Mr and Mrs H had more land it would make a great fun thing to drive around with Biscuit. I could teach her how to plow. I did ride by and old barn being torn down. I told Mr and Mrs H that I could load up Mr H's truck with some fine old barn boards. I did not find too much interest there.

MDT reports earnings today I hope it is good. Later

Battle of the Hats

In my effort to post at least once a week here goes. I have two favorite hats. One is a UC Davis hat, and the other is a Cal Poly SLO hat. So each day I have to think about which one to wear when I go out. The reason is I have one daughter who went to one school and one who went to the other. When I am only visiting one daughter I wear their school hat. The problem comes when both are home or we are together somewhere else. Which hat do I wear. Do I bring both and split the time. Or do I wear one one time and than at the next get together the other. Such a problem. Oh well yesterday I wore the Cal Poly hat to the Gym so today it is the UC Davis hat when I go to lunch with some old work friends.

The tree is turning a nice color of red.

More often

Mrs H said it was national write in your Blog month. Since I have not posted anything for like two months. I thought I would try once a week as a good place to start over.

Mrs H suggested taking a picture each day and post it. I decided I would take a picture of the Maple tree out front once a week and post. As you can see it is changing color quite nicely.

I might also take a picture of the new stuff that grows in the garage from WB's garage sale adventures. We now have a baby cooler, and a new tall trash can full of stuff. I am not sure what is all in there. And I had just cleaned the garage last week for my sisters visit and could finally get to my weed whacker and blower without having to climb over stuff. Oh well.

My sister and brother-in-law from Florida visited and it was a good time. Mr an Mrs H, Biscuit and the youngest were home for a Sat of wine tasting and dinner. WB watched Biscuit during the outing and I cooked. I think a good time was had by all.

Was rather surprised how far my sister was to the right in the Republican party. Must be the water in Florida. Enough for this week.