It’s January!

So… we’ve been kinda lacking on this half of the blog lately… but… things have been busy… I’m working, Virginia is working… holidays and all of that have rolled through…. so… yeah. That’s our excuse. And we’re sticking to it.

So.. here’s what Christmas looked like….

 

 

 

As you can see, Santa Claws came to visit…. O.C. made such a cute Santa… and Grace actually liked the sweater…. the antlers on the other hand… we’re just getting to the point now where we’re not afraid to sleep… Grace was threatening us for a while… looming over us while we slept… just watching… biding her time… just waiting for our eyelids to fall… but now, she seems like she’s forgetting about it.

Josh also came up… and we had a second Thanksgiving with another awesome turkey…

This one was brined for 2 days… then I injected it… then we smoked it on the grill… it was a special kind of awesome… just thinking about it now makes me want to cook up another one… I think that turkey doesn’t get enough “play”… it shouldn’t be relegated just to holidays and crappy lunch meat… Fresh carved turkey, and the subsequent week’s worth of leftover turkey sandwiches is something that should be celebrated at least quarterly.

Here’s our spread… we kept it reasonably small since it was Thanksgiving #2…. but, it did provide the important thing…

Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Sandwiches.

Then… there was work… and more work… and more work… and then Christmas… which we already mentioned above… then I went back to work, and Virginia… well… Virginia took off to New York with Martha… it must be nice to be able to take off like that…. There are pictures of the New York trip somewhere… I think Martha has them… and Virginia has the stories… so… I’m gonna just say “They went to New York” and leave it at that…. Virginia can fill in the rest with pictures and whatnot…

Then more work… and more work… and more work… but then today, we decided to get out of the house… actually, we decided to do that yesterday, but Virginia left her house without her coat… so we couldn’t really do anything, because whenever she got out of the car, she froze into a solid block of ice… according to her that is… according to the thermometer on the car, it was 62 degrees yesterday… so, anyhow… where was I… oh yeah…. today.. we got back into the car and tried that whole “doing something” thing again… so we drove up onto the Parkway, parked with dozens of other cars, and went walking towards Humpback Rock…

This is the view from the top… but… it’s a pretty crazy walk up there.. so there was a lot of this going on…

But… it was pretty amazing up at the top… quite a few people… but there was enough room to spread out a little bit….

Here’s Virginia… on top of the world…

It’s absolutely amazing up there…. you feel like you’re above absolutely everything…. except for the people who are on rocks above you… but you can push them off… then you become King of the Mountain! … or a felon… I’m not sure which… maybe both.

Anyhow… we had a good time. It was nice to get out of the house, and we might have to do it again sometime…