:MBPIC:20061200-Misc:IMG_2389.jpg:picLeft: :MBPIC:20061200-Misc:IMG_2390.jpg:picRight:It was another D and D day at our house last Sunday. The picture at the right is one person making chain maille. Yes, in some houses people sit around and knit. Here they make armor.
Disney has an illuminated Tinkerbell for the top of your Christmas tree. That strikes me as truly a secular Christmas – taking even the angel from the tree. Now, the tree itself is a pagen symbol but making it the center of the family with the angel looking over adds a little of the true Christmas spirit. But, adding Tinkerbell is going over to the commercial side much too far. Don’t you think?
I can tell Christmas is quickly approaching. The tension is rising as preparations for the extended family being here on Christmas Eve (that’s around 20 people) with Wagilia dinner for the immediate family at sundown before. That will mean serious logistics. But, in the mean time, we went shopping today and made sure we got to the store early to miss the crush. There’s a lot of shopping going on out there.
:MBPIC:20061200-Misc:RainShowers.jpg:picLeft:People from places where it doesn’t rain just can’t understand a forecast like this. One day rain. One day showers. One day rain. Yes, there will be water from the sky every day.
:MBPIC:20060800-Misc:IMG_1218.jpg:picLeft: :MBPIC:20060800-Misc:IMG_1220.jpg:picLeft: :MBPIC:20060800-Misc:IMG_1221.jpg:picRight: :MBPIC:20060800-Misc:IMG_1223.jpg:picRight: If you check out the LivingroomCam page this Sunday evening, you’ll see many teenagers busy playing D and D. All the teenagers at my son’s school have been interning somewhere or going to summer school or working somewhere and, since it’s August, they finally have time to get together and play. I do my best to give them chances to just be kids and play with each other. Kid’s activities are so organized and scheduled these days. Modern children wouldn’t know what to do with a warm afternoon and a field – something that I had to learn about when I was younger.
Anyway, we have playing kids until 10 tonight. They are even planning to cook their own dinner of manicotti. There’s no school tomorrow. Ahhh, youth.