Home For The Holidays

Melrose had it’s annual Christmas festival this weekend, “Home for the Holidays.” Unfortunately it seems to be getting watered down more and more every year. Still, the kids had a blast seeing Santa Clause ride in on the fire engine on Friday night, and get their picture taken with him… they are still a little bashful of Santa, and maybe next year Judy and I won’t have to sit in on the picture.

Saturday, we took to the streets and headed down to the Highlands to go to the petting zoo. Again, last year they had camels, sheep, llamas and goats. This year they had rabbits, chickens, and ducks. However, the plus to this was that the kids could enter into the pens and interact with the animals. Mary was all for it, but Luke was hesitant, and really didn’t want anything to do with it… up close that is. He enjoyed it more from a distance.

On our way to the petting zoo, we saw Santa again, accompanying people on a wagon ride. We stopped to wave and say “hi.” It was about 35 degrees, which made for a nice wintry feel, but not too cold. Last year I believe it was in the low teens at noon time and we were completely frozen!

The kids got to make tee shirts at Brad Hutchinson Real Estate, and Mary made a reindeer antler hat at the YMCA. For Luke, the most interesting part of the day was the train set in the window of Whittemore Hardware. Daddy will certainly be getting one for Luke sometime in the near future… probably more for me than him :o)

 

Elephant Humor

Ok, this is definitely toilet humor, but considering that it is real footage, I found it pretty laughable. You’ll never stand behind an elephant again after watching this video.

 

Random Pixels – Volume 4

“You Wascally Wabbit!”

I use to work as a facilities manager for a local Church, and my hours always began early around 6:30am. During the spring of 2006, I established a friendship with this little rodent. We would always meet at the same time, and at the same place, as if we arranged it. I always knew it was the same rabbit, because he had a distinct tear in his left ear that made him easy to pick out from the other rabbits that grazed the grounds.

He would always jump towards me every time we crossed paths, but he never seemed to trust me enough to come within reach. I think he knew that I was friendly enough… perhaps he just wasn’t a close talker, which was a relief to me, because I can’t stand close talkers.

However, one day he stopped showing up at our typical meeting place, and I was a little concerned. You see, we also had a hawk that made his home in the area, and I feared that maybe the two may have met. I like to think that my rabbit friend just moved on. Perhaps he found a misses and started his own little rabbit family.

At any rate, I decided to capture him on film one day when we were having our little meet. He seemed to work the camera rather well, and I was able to get this shot of him.