Snow, snow, and more snow. eleven and a half inches in about fourteen-sixteen hours! I've just been scraping off the deck, and the snow was eleven and half inches deep. And, I had to scrape it again after I'd shoveled all the snow off - it was already white again. No question about it, we're having a white Christmas this year.
Everyone has canceled and I've been baking up a storm for the season: butter tarts, jam tarts, lemon tarts, a square, peppermint chocolate candy and rum balls. Oh well, we'll have lots of goodies for New Years - provided the weather improves.

I'd promised a while back to post on my NaNoWriMo experience.
It was tons of fun, enough that I might do it again next year. I made the wordcount, which tells me that I can actually write stories longer than about five thousand words. However, every book I've read says to 'show not tell' what's going on. That I couldn't manage, and I'm sure the story is riddled with cliches, even though I'd been trying - I read a book on writing character emotions before starting.

It's fifty thousand words of nothing. No drama, no tension, nothing happens to the characters, it's all backstory. There are some passages I like, but most of it. Well, I'm not inflicting the story on anyone as it stands.

However, I did it. I made fifty thousand words in thirty days!

Unlike the malls, the radio has only just started playing Christmas Carols. The first one I've heard this year is Elvis's Blue Christmas.

Isn't it too early for this?

The local radio station is playing the first christmas carol of the year (that I've heard, anyway). Of course, the malls have been playing them for over a week now, so I guess the radio has been somewhat restrained.

It's always so sad to take down the tree each year. All the lights, colour and bright decorations involved with the holliday season all over the house disappear back into their boxes until the next year.

Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope if you are a Tolkien fan that you got as Middle-Earth themed christmas as I did. Middle-Earth Risk, the Tolkien 50th anniversary Calendar, one of the new biographies, ROTK EE, and Tolkien Artist and Illustrator.

I hope all of you got everything you wanted and a wonderful day with your family

Finarfen, a while ago, you mentioned the carols by Manheim Steamrollers (not sure of the spelling). I didn't recognize the name at the time, but the radio played one of them this afternoon, and you're right, they're good.

Well, the radio has started to play christmas carols. The thing is, I think that last year, the same station didn't start until after the beginning of December. Is this too early?