Good Deal...

Tom has a thing for good deals...today he went off to run a couple of errands - which included the "rescue" of his dress shirts from the dry cleaners which has nothing to do with the errands or good deal, but I was amused that he actually said rescue.

ANYWAY - he is off doing his thing and I'm messing around on the computer, killing time and all because I'm on VACATION. 30 minutes go by and he arrives home again announcing that he got a tree...a FREE tree...as in Christmas tree! I, of course, was a little confused because we have a tree already so I had to take a look to see this tree. I grabbed the camera and the phone (gotta call Robin to tell HER the exciting news) and wouldn't you know it, there is a free christmas tree. Tom was pretty funny because he said "Well you wanted to put something in the backyard to make it look nice." I was thinking more of an electrified type thing, but hey...FREE TREE!

My proud hunter-gatherer...of FREE things.

Really, don't try this at school kids...

Our guys were out saving lives and living out scenes from a certain holiday movie...

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Firefighters rescue boy whose tongue stuck to pole

Wednesday, December 9 | 10:55 a.m.
THE COLUMBIAN

Firefighters were called to a Vancouver middle school this morning to rescue a boy whose tongue was stuck to a flag pole.

Clark County Fire District 6 firefighters responded to Alki Middle School, 1800 N.W. Bliss Road, at about 9 a.m.

A firefighter/paramedic used warm water to free the boy's tongue. The boy was treated with hot chocolate and cookies. He did not need further medical attention.

Fire District 6 said it "strongly advises people to not put their tongue on a metal pole during extremely low temperatures -- even if someone triple-dog dares you to -- because it will get stuck."

Snow melting...slowly...

It seems that the snow is finally melting and we are back to our usual winter weather of RAIN! Here are a couple of shots from Christmas...

A downpour(?) of snow?

Tried to get a shot of Tom jumping, but it's hard with the digital camera, so we opted for a pose instead.

Christmas TV Specials

Was listening to NPR's Talk of the Nation during lunch - today's topic was Christmas Specials that you watch year after year...traditions you might say. So I was thinking about the shows I used to watch as a kid then the first caller said something about the Star Wars Christmas Special. Since I wasn't really paying attention, I didn't get the first part of his conversation. I was a little stunned to have heard that Star Wars did a Christmas special so I had to look it up on YouTube on my return to work. The host of the show had Carrie Fisher as a guest earlier in the week - which I missed - and he quoted her saying that after this special anyone would need therapy. After watching it I could see why...

We Were "Blessed" this morning...

This our way of saying we were messed with.

Tom and I were heading out from church and we spied this on the antenna -

There is no sense in placing blame...all of our friends would claim innocence.

We have become far too complacent.

Veggie Tales Christmas - Silly Songs with Larry