dual personalities

We had a busy Saturday. I got up and made cookies — our favorites, Oatmeal Scotchies. Yum!

not my photo

Then we gathered these and some clementines and went off to church to help with “the greening”, i.e. decorating for Christmas. It was a lot of fun. There was quite a crowd and all the cookies got gobbled up. Here, husband, son, and friend festoon the altar.

The sanctuary looks nice, don’t you think?

After that, for a wild change of pace, we loaded up the car with our three pumpkins and several gourds and drove out the the camp to shoot ’em up. Alas, I forgot the camera so you will just have to use your imaginations. Suffice it to say that frozen pumpkins are very fun to shoot. And did I mention that we have snow? The trees looked more or less like this

but with a little less snow. Once we were well and truly cold and the pumpkins well and truly shot up, we came home to a richly deserved glass of sherry and a dinner of turkey/onion/mushroom/cheese quesadillas. Contentment all around.

And now I’ve got to hit the road to take boy #3 back to college for the final weeks of the semester. As we all get super busy heading toward Christmas just remember to enjoy it — it’s all a gift!