Look what I found

Hey, I went to Country Mart today and guess what I found?  The jelly nougat candies! You're probably wondering about that.  Jeanette & I tried to find them at two different places when she was here and they didn't have them so I was pleased to get these to have for Christmas.

Alan's Scare

Here's something interesting that just happened.  We were both on the front porch putting up a string of Christmas lights. We looked across the street and saw a skunk in the front yard of our neighbors.  It walked up on their porch.  The lady opened her door and yelled, "A skunk!!" and slammed the door.  That seemed rather funny to us since she didn't get sprayed.  I got the camera and took a picture of him.  He kept ambling all around the neighborhood.  We called animal control but they don't work on Saturday.  I went on inside and soon heard frantic rapping on the side window.  Alan had been on our porch  plugging in the extension cord when he looked over in the corner, about 4 or 5 feet from where he stood, and there was the skunk looking at him.  Luckily he was able to get off the porch without startling the skunk.  So that's our excitement for the day.  Think we'll just stay inside.

Where did November go?

I didn't take any pictures on Thanksgiving.  Since we had our family get together the weekend before, we were at home for the real Thanksgiving.  I don't know why I didn't think to take pictures when we were all together.  We invited the elders over Thursday and cooked the traditional meal.  Afterward, we played Monopoly.  I haven't played that in a looooong time.  I think they had a good time.

Today (Saturday) we brought up the Christmas boxes.  I'm not quite ready to put everything out.  There's too much other stuff to do today, but there they set with my little pilgrims looking over them and thinking, "What happened to my holiday?"

Oh, and yes, you do see the train box sitting there.  When I asked Alan whether he was planning on setting up the train under the tree he said, "Yes, I've got to do it for Noah."  There's a story behind that.