December 2011 Pictures

There's been a bit of snow, but not much. No sledding this year while tree hunting. This is the most snow I found that day.

And some more smatterings of snow, and gnarled roots, and the green of trees...

my tree in the wild

Ice carving was the same day as tree hunting, so I walked around to check it out when we got back. There were a lot of new carvers this year. This is a moose just down the block from my favorite coffee place.

This is the grand prize winner - it's a phoenix, and the picture does not do it justice.

My porch decorations - maybe $5 worth from the thrift store. Still, it looks festive, and since I have no outside electricity, lights are out.

door wreath

festive table decorations, including my funky skiing girl

kitchen window - I found big light bulbs (yes, the thrift store) and tied them onto a jute cord to create garland

Christmas tree with lights and decorations

frosty fence

bag number one of packages mailed

and bag number two

Woo Hoo!

Okay, and it's only 11:53pm. Nothing like the last minute. I was starting to think I was going to get really close and miss it by only a few hundred words, but it's 50,130 according to the official calculator. Of course, many of those are redundant and crap. And I basically have three beginnings since I had no plan coming in, and started figuring it out as I went.

THAT'S WHAT DECEMBER IS FOR! And NaNoFiMo - National Novel Finishing Month. You add another 30,000 words and finish what you have going from November. Which I guess would leave January for the editing process?

All I can say is that it's a good thing I have tomorrow off. Time to catch up on sleep!!