Groundhog Day's a'comin'

I love my kids. They amuse me. They each do things that I love and crack me up. Today I wanna tell you about one of the things that Dan does that I love. When we sit around coming up with hair brained ideas, we usually just laugh and never get off of the couch. Dan, however, just jumps right in there and says let's do it and then proceeds to make the idea hairier and brainier.

I really wanted to built a snowman, but no one would help.....but Dan. So off we go with green boxes and shovels in hand. We start making blocks so that they can freeze and we can stack them. Then we come up with the fact that we never did get Christmas lights out, but groundhog day IS fast approaching. That''s one holiday that can't go uncelebrated!

While working on our blocks, decide to spray them with water so that they'll freezer harder, and Dan suggests adding food colouring to the water. Brilliant! Our lawn is now littered with blue and red blocks of snow randomly scattered.

Today or tomorrow we'll have to put our snow dude together. Then we'll wrap him in lights, scatter a few beer bottles around and put up our "Happy Groundhog Day" sign. I expect we'll have the nicest display on the block. I just hope we'll have time to do all of that before the second. It's just so busy around the holidays. It's hard to find the time. Is it too early to start baking the groundhog day cookies?

I'm just not sure who's cooking the groundhog this year? I must ask Uncle Brian.

Manic????

OKOkokok... so.... I got some yarn and started a new afghan.... I got some cloth and started a new baby quilt...... I ordered some crocheting books to try these new techniques cause I knit well but my crocheting needs improvement..... I bought some material to make a new night gown..... I got a new cook book cause I really should start eating better and I made there great roasted pepper and pine nut appetizers and roasted the peppers myself...... I started making the outsides to my new pillow cases..... and today I'm hoping to start cleaning up the couch pile and the kitchen....and ..and...and...