A Sign of the Season

It's not Christmas if I am not spending a fortune in Yankee Candle. My shopping's done. Kids, drop me an email letting me know which one you want. Just kidding. These are MINE.

World Points Rewards

I had 19,000 points on one of my credit cards that lets you use them to get stuff.

A few weeks ago my golf bag's zipper broke and look what I got to replace it for nothing.

I didn't even have to pay for shipping. Of course, what I did have to do was charge up about a million dollars on the card to pay for Daughter's wedding, a riding lawn mower and a new furnace.

I Did.....

...and I hope you did too.

Branching Out

I didn't think I would be using this very much after I bought the riding mower.

But thanks to Sandy, I can't pick up the leaves with the mower because they are full of sticks. The trees didn't fall over but they dropped lots of their small branches along with tons of leaves.

So many leaves came down that a single pass through the yard...

...resulted in my leaf catchers overflowing. This job is going to need beer and lots of it.

Trick or Treat?

Two days ago these trees had all of their leaves.

Now those leaves all over the place and someone has to pick them all up.

That someone is me.

I stuffed as many as I could into the Halloween bags.

 Then I lined the driveway with them to keep the trick or treaters from falling in the holes.

My reward for all my hard work was to get to make the Goblin Franks for Halloween dinner.

She also let me put the face on the jack o'lantern this year. Too bad no one saw it. We didn't get a single kid.