I got my present from Margene yesterday - I love it!  A personalized ornament!

 

Some belated pictures from Christmas - a very quiet one for us.  The dogs got more presents than anyone else!  (And they deserve them, too!)  Luna was carrying two around at a time.

My present arrived Christmas Eve, and I have been having a lot of fun with it - AJ lined me up (aka did the research) with a Virtual Reality headset that I can play limited games on (unlike his computer that can handle a lot more games).  Since Beat Saber is available, I'm good!

We went down to Jeff's the day after Christmas for Christmas with his family.  Myra turned 2 in November, and Kody and Shannon announced they are expecting again!

Kirby's dog Max jumped up and snuggled with Alli - much to everyone's surprise!  He just fell asleep in her lap, and she let him!  

And the 2022 calendar has been ordered!  (Not in time for me to have by the first of January, but...it's ordered.)

 

 

Alex and I went to the Lights at Turtle Bay again this year - is was soooo crowded, but beautiful!

 

And my tree is up!

 

I took last week off for a stay-cation, and got a lot of things done that I just don't get around to during my normal work schedule.  Part of that was raking and hauling leaves off!  Luckily, we got most of the leaves out before the current storm hit - and what was left of my leaves are now in someone else's yard (and I'm sure I have the leaves from someone else in my yard now, too.)  This was a very windy storm - a bit of rain, which we need, and a lot of wind, which we don't.  So far, no big power outages.  Whew!

I finally got the RV fixed - it needed a fan clutch replaced since June, and it just never got in to the shop.  I still have to replace the back quarter panel that Ralph knocked off when he backed over the standpipe in the yard (we did fix the standpipe right away.....), but...it's back to being drivable!

I also finally finished a wall hanging that I started years ago - the quilting was done, it just needed the embroidery (faces and arms) and buttons sewed on (snowflakes and buttons on the snowmen.)  

I also got rid of boxes and boxes (did I mention boxes?) of medical supplies and dialysis supplies.  The medical supplies (masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, soap, etc.) were donated to Haven Humane, and the dialysis supplies were hauled off to the dump - with about 40 boxes of liquid solutions that had to be cut open and drained first.  AJ actually has room to turn around in his house now!

 

It doesn't matter how old the kids are, or if they even still live at home, you still never get to go to the bathroom by yourself....

 

Cute/sweet/silly puppy!

 

At least if I have to rake leaves (again, and again, and again....), they are beautiful - even my boring sycamore leaves.  I loving find one of my neighbor's more colorful maple leaves mixed it with my brown and gold leaves....

 

We took the laptop (filled with Pokemon videos) to Jeff's at Thanksgiving and set it up for Alli - she seemed to enjoy playing on the couch!

 

The sunlight on the grass was hard to capture yesterday, but I tried.