Just Some Stuff: Christmas Lights-- Burn Pile-- Good Old Friends-- Key Lime Cove

JSS-- Just Some Stuff


1. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS-- Finally finished putting up Christmas lights and decorations outside. I will be gone the next two weeks to NC and wanted to get them up while we still had some decent weather. Not much fun in freezing temperatures or rain.

I have lights and decorations on the deck, gazebo and all across the front of the house. I probably have around 45 strands of lights, green garland, and two large wreaths.


2. BURN PILE-- We had another dry week so I was able to finish the burn pile. I actually had that good old burning leaf smell this time. That IS THE SMELL OF AUTUMN, but I doubt that we'll be able to do it for much longer.


3. GOOD OLD FRIENDS-- Liz and I got together with some long-time friends of ours, Kip and Susie and Paul at the Gurnee Golden Corral which was having a military appreciation night where they were letting past and present military personel eat for free. That is a nice way to thank them for our freedoms.

I worked for twenty years with Kip and Paul at Magee Middle School in Round Lake.


4. KEY LIME COVE-- Afterwards, we went over to this new indoor water park in Gurnee. A real taste of the Keys all the way up here. Played NTN in the lounge and decided that if we were ever to spend a night or two here, during the school week would be the time. No screaming kids. The poor life guards had to be bored and outnumbered the swimmers by a considerable amount.

Just Some Stuff. --RoadDog