Christmas 2008- the Final Shoomf

Om was determined to keep the tree for Loretta, and she said that she was glad, since she had not had any Christmas in Brasil.

Next, he gets out the sabre saw, cuts it up and throws it off the deck for me to haul to the campfire area. Oh, yeah, he does take the ornaments off first.

I think Christmas is finally dead.


See What Else? It's Christmas
See Joyful Heart- Loretta's Blog

Alexa Rank and a New Blog

I'll do a fun post later tonight, but I have a couple of blogging notes to share. I'm pretty happy that my Alexa rating just went below 200,000. It was 196,215 all day today. Still can't get above 0 in Google PR, but I think I need more links from other web sites.

My other bit of news is that I've started another blog, one that's much more mercenary. With all the blogs I'm maintaining I seem to have learned a few things along the way. And I would like a blog where I can review products occasionally or blatantly promote EC contests, etc. I DON'T want to do all that here. So, anyone who is interested is welcome to visit me there. If you just want to stay here for the fun stuff, I don't blame you one bit. This is merely for your information.

See Just Throw Money

It's For You !

Maggie: Huh? What? Me? I'm awake!

Loretta: It's for you.

Maggie: Wow, Skype is great. I love technology, Aunt Loretta! Uh... who am I talkin' to?

See Is There a Puppy in There?

Bagpipes for Loretta

Om's sister Loretta is here for just a little more than a day. We haven't seen her in two years. Maybe tomorrow you'll get to meet her.

She is good at music and likes it a lot. So Om arranged for our friend Sean to come over and play the bagpipes for her as a surprise. She WAS surprised. We made her guess what was in the case... she did figure out musical instrument, but got no closer than that.

Too bad you can't hear it too. Maybe at some point I'll figure how to do video.

See We Were... Loud

That's Some Hangnail !

I was wandering along on my afternoon walk today not expecting much of interest (always a poor attitude) when I glanced at an oddly shaped object on the ground. It looked like a small horn.

I picked it up and discovered that it is half of a small deer hoof, broken completely off. Ouch! (Gross out warning) There is a small bit of tissue inside the hollow space, so it must have been painful for the deer to have this break. I would assume that it was cracked and injured earlier in the winter, and just finally broke off completely quite recently.

I am also confident that the hoof will regrow, but I know that when I lose a toenail it takes months to get it back. I'll try to watch for deer tracks with a one-toed deer!

See Deer Buffet
See Where the Deer Rest
See The Local Deer Herd