December 20, 2008

• WHAT A DIVERSE DAY . . .

  
  Here is what greeted me early this morning. They're building a house across the gulley from me, and I loved how you could see the sunrise through the rafters of the unfinished home.

  I'd gotten up early so that I could get a good start on the day. It was to be our annual Candy Days and we were going to try to get everything done in just one day rather than 2 days as in years past. We had pared down the amount of candy we were going to make this year so it would be just possible that we might actually accomplish everything in one day.

  
  This isn't all, but it's the majority of the candy that we made yesterday. There are white chocolate covered pretzels, Craisen bark, white covered cashew clusters, peanut butter balls, coconut bon bons, Oreo bon bons and chocolate covered toffee.  We'll be cutting down a even a little bit more next year as well. Gill participated with us last year for the first time and surprisingly enough . . . she was game for it again this year.

  Then shortly after we finished dividing up all the candy and after Alice had gone home to take Rosie Joy for her walk, I got a call from Alice on her cell phone. She said, "Quick, go look out back". 

   
  I went to look out the back window and immediately ran to get my camera. There was a hot air baloon that had just landed across the gulley from my house. It caused quite a commotion . . . there were probably a dozen people clustered around it.

  Then a minute later it lifted off and I got a movie of it as it rose into the sky.

  • 12:59 pm
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