The time is getting close when I must decide what I am going to do about this blog.  Keep it and pay, or just get on with my writing in other ways.  Hmmm.

Other than that, I am busy writing my novel and it is beginning to get exciting, even for me.  When it's done, I expect to submit it to a publisher, but you know how they are.  I'll probably get a rejection slip right off.  Nevertheless.....

The snow is beautiful, we got about 5 or 6 inches yesterday and overnight, it is quiet, warm, and so beautiful out.  I'm going to go for a walk in the moonlight tonight, whether it's cloudy or not.  Hunting season is over, and my dogs have brought home many deer legs from the woods to gnaw on in the driveway.  These are their treasures. 

I am thinking I will organize my recipes and publish them, even though many are not my own, my very own, original recipes.  I could put a note on the end of each recipe to say where I got it from, if it's not my own creation.  I'll have to find out what the protocol is. 

Meantime, the presents are wrapped, with the exception of a lampshade that I just don't want to wrap, what's the point?  Anybody can see it's a lampshade....I'm confident that this will be a merry CHRISTMAS.  Can you believe the nonsense that is going on now?  Not bloody likely will I be saying happy holidays. 

My latest book acquisitions are Talk to the Hand; Eats, Shoots and Leaves, both by Lynne Truss, Aesop's Fables (soon to be a Christmas present), and a movie, The Motorcycle Diaries.  Also, another book by Pickover called Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves.  Very interesting.