Beginning of December post…

Well… I know blog updates have been a bit few and far between lately…. but things have been really busy here in Boone lately… Virginia seems to have something going on every night of the week after work, and I’ve been having photo assignments for the newspaper and meetings and whatnot…

so, here’s the summary of all of that you can pick and choose to create your own sentence: We had to stay late tonight because Aaron / Virginia had a meeting / a presentation / to shoot football practice / to shoot a basketball game, and we didn’t get home until 10pm. For my part of having to stay late… I can toss in some cool pictures for you to glance at….

But… we went home for Thanksgiving…that was a good time.. these trips always seem too short… but, we made it up there with 2 cats… we ate ourselves silly for days on end… and generally had a good time.

We also went to the last Farmer’s Market here in Boone… and unlike last year’s final Farmer’s Market, it wasn’t freezing cold this time…

They had some decent produce left… and good meats of course… but typically, these final few Farmer’s Market days are for selling crafts and gifts…

I think that about ties up the end of November… since December has started… well.. it’s been NASTY cold. We got somewhere in the neighborhood of over a foot of snow up at our house…. of course, the actual town of Boone may have gotten 5-6 inches.. So… we’ve been having to bundle up… and keep the cats inside…

Grace doesn’t know anything else… but OC… well… she went outside in the snow once, when we had about 2-3 inches… she didn’t seem happy… but I think she needed to get away from Grace for a little while…. in case we haven’t introduced OC to everyone… here she is:

OC is a sweetheart… but she acts like an old cat… and Grace wants to play… and OC wants nothing to do with that…

Also… we went and got a Christmas Tree today!!

We somehow either don’t have a tree skirt… or we forgot about / lost it. But.. Virginia was glad to get a tree.. and I got her a nice wreath…. so… she’s been in a Christmassy mood tonight…  (Note: “Christmassy” apparently exists in spell-check) and she took care of all of the tree decorating…. while wearing a red ribbon Ninja Decorating Headband.

Also, Virginia has some Gingerbread going… it’s amazing what goes into making Gingerbread.. and how it’ll take over your entire kitchen. So…. be looking for Gingerbread baking on the Cooking Blog soon…. the actual making of the houses… well… that might end up on this blog… with some pictures of the completed gingerbread houses on the cooking blog… but.. we’ll see how that pans out.

But… we should be able to make some awesome Gingerbread houses…

We’ll try to keep the blog updated more often… with winter rolling in at full strength.. expect some pictures of snow.. and complaining about the same… for us… we’ll try to remember slightly warmer days….