I hope everyone is finally ready for the holiday celebrations. We are having the Bakos joining us this year and we are very excited about it. The tree is up, most gifts are wrapped, and the house is decorated/littered [depends on your point of view] with almost every ornament made in the previous 23 years. I can’t believe Martha gets all that stuffed in the attic without the rafters caving in on us.  
 Our early season snow is completely gone now. I also found the ground is no longer frozen solid. In an attempt to provide some extra sleeping space for the younger people, we planned on moving the holiday trailer over to the house. Its heated and cozy and would provide a place for the kids to gather and play video games etc. Martha and I talked it over and thought it would work nice if we parked it behind the house with the trailer steps close to the patio doors. That way people could slip back and forth without needing a coat. I got all of 6 feet onto the lawn and discovered the cement driveway would be the ONLY alternative :) I’ll post holiday pictures to the album as they become available and I encourage everyone else to do the same. If you have forgotten your photo album login/password, drop me a note and I’ll fix you up.