as the holidays approach...

our weekend was warm, but cloudy...

we got the outdoor Christmas lights and greenery up this weekend...

and I did turn them on Saturday night to check them...

and left them on...

with someone protesting greatly...

so he unplugged them Sunday morning...

party pooper...

what's a few extra days?

he did take me out for one last walk at the park Saturday afternoon...

can't you just see yourself sitting there with a rod in your hands?

we trimmed a couple of trees up on Sunday morning and by noon...

the rain had started in...

I so wanted to go for ride in the country...

but its deer season...

and we tend to stick to the highways until that's over...

just in case someone let a city boy or two hunt on their property...

you never know with them...

and then there is this wonderful surprise on the square...

someone actually decorated a building and they did it well...

this is where the newspaper office was...

and she moved down the street this fall into the old doctor's office..

and suddenly, there was someone painting the outside of this...

I love the bright yellow door...

and this moose...

so now I need to find out who bought it...

who fixed it up...

and what they are planning on doing with the building...

like maybe a fun shop that sells this kind of thing...

wouldn't that be grand?

I am sure these guys know all about it...

they live just down the street...

so we asked them to tell us all about the pretty new building...

they were just too busy to give us the time of day...

so I guess I will have to do it the old fashioned was and make a few phone calls in the morning...

someone has to know...

small towns are like that...

so- that's the weekend in a nutshell...

get it?  pun snuck in there...

are you going bonkers getting ready for the big dinner???

got your house cleaned?

floors scrubbed?

bathrooms up to par?

got your turkey thawing yet???

well, we are having our dinner on Wednesday, since Craig has to work Thursday and Friday...

and the we will be setting up the toy drive on the weekend...

am I ready?

nope...

do I care?

nope...

because it will happen whether I am ready or not...

so I am going to skip the whacked out part this year and just let it happen...

;0)

just have the kids coming and their girlfriends...

a whole whoppin' 6 people...

I can do that blind folded...

;0)