Winter won't leave

Sometimes, winter is nice.

Where there is snow you can go out and play in until Scotch wears out!



Where twenty year old young men love to pelt anyone in sight with snowballs!



Where eleven year old boys play until they are soaking wet!



Then? This happens...



Winter thumbs its nose at you.



And branches start plummeting out of trees.



Not nice, winter. Not nice.

Brrrr

A photo is worth a couple thousand words...



But the cold doesn't keep the artist from his work.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve. We had some snow. I helped shovel.



The boys in front of the tree.



No rabbit ears during Christmas. You must make reindeer antlers.



The traditional opening of one present on Christmas Eve.



More snow Christmas Eve night.

Christmas morning. See the Uno Attack Santa brought (behind the Legos)? Totally fun!



Snow. Snow. Snow.

Here is our grill.



The railing on the back deck.



This morning, I decided to take a walk around the block and snap some photos.

Here are some trees in the neighbors' yard.



One of the county roads before the plow.



After the plow.



Neighbors' cars.



A bench at the park.



This merry-go-round won't be going around any time soon.



Poor horsie.



Not much room to swing!



Lonely play structure.




More neighborhood trees.



Our street.



Our house.



Hi!

Brrrrrrr and then some

Did you hear it snowed up here?

(These were all taken through windows. That's why they are sorta blue-ish.)

They plow the roads up into big piles all over town...



Then they load the snow into dump trucks, take it out and dump it beside the river.



Here's the side door of the library. One of the medium-sized drifts in town.



This is one of the roads on the East side of town looking out over a corn field. The wind is still whipping the snow around.



Cooper says, "Ha, ha. Now open the door, woman."



Here is the birdhouse on our back deck. I took this yesterday afternoon.



Here it is again this morning.



I find it is better to just not ask questions...



And remember! If the temperature gets below freezing where you are, make sure you go outside and blow bubbles. It is so cool the way they freeze and pop. I'll see if I can get some photos this year.

It's Fall, Y'all

The leaves are turning a gorgeous rainbow of reds, yellows and oranges.



Soon, we'll be raking the leaves into large piles, ready for young children to jump and frolic amongst them.



Can Winter be far behind?

Sharing some time.

Us old farts bought a time share in a resort.

We went over today to get our photo IDs and our parking stickers and to show The Boy the lay of the land.

We are really looking forward to parking the RV there this summer. They have paddle boats, miniature golf, horseshoes, shuffle board, basketball courts, tennis courts, an indoor pool, a HOT TUB, board games, an arcade and all around good times. They have kids' nights with crafts, movies and the ilk. It is going to be so much fun!

Here are some photos of the big play ground.

They have HUGE tires stacked up for the kids to crawl around on. Since there is still snow, The Commander had to be his 12 year old self and throw snowballs at people.



I got hit by the shrapnel on this one.







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Now I have to go look up the Spanish word for butter because the waiter at the Mexican restaurant where we had supper knew just enough English not to know what I was asking for.

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P.S. The Spanish word for butter is mantequilla.

The things I do for you.

I went out in four degree weather (feels like eight below) to take photos of our Christmas lights for my SurvivorWatchingBuddy.

Because I'm nice, I'm not only giving you a video of some of our lights, I'm giving you some audio of me walking through the snow.

Enjoy!

Brrrrr