Weekend, pics, football

First let’s get the visual entertainment out of the way. Here is a pic of the little dogs that were on our property the day after Thanksgiving. (hopefully) they got a good home.

There are some updated pictures of Nicki available. I have to admit that I love her now as much as any pet I ever had.

This weekend we finished up our Christmas decorations, see pics of it all here. (as well as some non holiday pics)

The weekend was another good one. The temperature was below normal with highs in the 60’s both days. It is a result of that nasty storm that hammered the northeast this weekend. Back into the mid 70’s this week. My mom got her first taste of REALLY being glad she was here. We feel bad about our friends and family having to deal with the crappy weather but at the same time we feel content about not having to deal with it anymore.

As I mentioned up top we finished our decorations. I got inspired and hung additional lights across the roofline of the house. I never did that before at any place so it was cool. Ali made the wreath you see on the door by hand from branches we had to trim off the xmas tree. Our tree is a bit of an ugly duckling, a charlie brown tree. It’s trunk is crooked, is split in the middle and has a big bare spot up top. We really loaded it up with ornaments to cover up the blemishes. I think it looks good.

I did some mowing and weed whacking on Sunday. I have a strained back and a welt on my forehead that looks like I was shot with a bb gun as a result. The strained back was from being lazy and trying to mow the trenches in the back (instead of weed whacking them) and getting the tractor mower stuck. To get it out I had to lift up the backend and pull it out. Of course I didn’t learn the first time, I got it stuck at least 5 times before I gave up on that plan. When I went back with the weed whacker a branch somehow wound up pelting me on the forehead. When I went inside I noticed I had a small stream of dried up blood there. Always wear those safety glasses!!!!

What is up with college football? The BCS ratings are f’d up. The number 1 team loses, the number 2 and 3 team win in convincing fashion and the national championship game puts the number 1 team that LOST against the number 3 team?????????????????? Come on that make no sense. Stupid system.

Sunday great day for pro football. The Eagles came back in the second half and humiliated the Cowboys. Another great game, I can not believe how well it is going now after it went so terribly in the beginning. I’ll just enjoy the ride and be happy to eat all the crow I have to. I loved watching the New England – Miami game. Thousands of seats were buried! People were digging their seats out or in some cases just sitting in the snow! The scenes of the fans throwing the snow in the air to celebrate was one I’ll never forget. Talk about diehards….

The carnivore fish I had in my office died, no tears shed. I’m decommisioning the tank.

I’ve GOT to get some Christmas shopping done soon…..