The More Thigs Change... Part 2

I love Christmas shopping with Sam. Here's a photo from last year's post...

 

And here are a couple photos from this year...

 

 

Trimming the Tree

I'm glad Helaina likes her 'new' job - thrilled, actually. But you wouldn't catch me dead* riding in a bucket, putting Christmas lights up on the top of the tower. I don't even like climbing the tower.

I'm glad she likes it though.

*Well, maybe if I were dead it wouldn't be so bad. But then, why would I be riding in a bucket?

All Too Brief

 

Today, I was fortunate enough to meet up with Rachael and meet her friend Aidan and (re-)meet her friend Seamus for a (very) brief visit way out in western Massachusetts. We met a some place called "Bartholomew's Cobble Reservation".

The photo above is a view from some hill we hiked up, who's name I forget (if I ever knew it).

Like always, I wish it could have been longer (the visit, that is. Not the hike). But also like always, I'll take what I can get.

 

A View from the Iron Bridge

 

The More Things Change...

 I finally got Sam to put together a Christmas list. Here's this year's list...

And here a a couple of lists from previous years. See if you can detect a pattern...

A Cold Start to the Day

We had our first heavy frost of the season last night. Here's a small sample of some of the leaves I passed while walking Sam to work this morning...

Trick or Treat

Sam and his friend are alike in a lot of ways  - polite, (mostly) even tempered, etc. They even look similar. But there's one way they differ. Actually, make that two.

First, his friend is quite a bit taller. And second, while Sam is a complete softy, his friend apparently loves horror movies.

Here's a picture of them trick-or-treating together. See if you can guess which is which.