Happy Christmas Eve!

We are looking forward to a quiet Christmas day tomorrow -- a few pictures from our past few days:

Behind one of the lots, we saw this decoration -- the homeowners must have a tall ladder to get those Santa hats on that cactus!

Several years ago, I took a picture with my camera through our spotting scope of a Bighorn Sheep in Yellowstone and it came out pretty good. This week, I tried taking a picture of Saturn and Jupiter aligning through the spotting scope - do you see them? No? Neither do I!!!

When we were out driving this week, the signs that usually tell of traffic issues had a different message...

If you like fruitcake, is this a confusing message?

We wanted to make cookies for Christmas, and we had a couple of boxes of Krustees Snickerdoodles, so we decided to make them.

Carl did the mixing and the making of the balls. Patti rolled them in the cinnamon and sugar...

... and put them on the pans and took them off. Lest you think those look awfully dark, we tried a variant from the back of the box for *Chocolate* Snickerdoodles. It was easy - just adding 2T cocoa to the mix. They are very tasty!

We made half "regular" Snickerdoodles...

... and half Chocolate. They are all good!

After our pretty successful Thanksgiving feast, we are trying it again for Christmas. We both like turkey, and especially like turkey noodle soup, so we like having leftovers and broth. Turkeys aren't available year-round (not the whole ones that are good if you want to make bone broth) -- so we decided that we would go ahead and cook again -- and this time, we have 50A power and we are hooked up to be able to dump our tanks as much as we need to -- both of which we were missing back in November! So we are looking forward to a little less stressful dinner-making tomorrow than we had for Thanksgiving.

We hope everyone is having a blessed Christmas!