can I offer anyone a $5 banquet picture?

Right before Jaclyn jetted back to Happy Valley.

Boys' Club came up with the Country Christmas theme. After cooking their food over the fire, the kids came back in to watch The Apple Dumpling Gang.

Boys' Club officers, plus the deans.

The girls' RAs hold dean Jifer Proctor hostage and demand a pay raise.

Cooking hot dogs outside over the fire

My all-time favorite picture of the night. This is probably why you didn't recognize Andy Wade as the dean in the Boys' Club picture. Roy Rogers looks awfully friendly for holding a redneck at gunpoint. Becky wouldn't take a picture with Andy while he had his gross teeth in his mouth!

We had cardboard cutouts of the Lone Ranger & Tonto and John Wayne too.

blue Christmas

This is kind of a before picture. It's a timer shot from Jaclyn's camera sitting on the furniture. We watched 4 movies during the course of our painting experience: Love Actually, Elf, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Finding Neverland.

Fun with primer. Jaclyn contributed her name and an "S" to make this 2-for-1 message.

This morning, we rolled out of bed and got right to work, sort of.

These pictures are from tonight, when I cleaned up and put things sort of back together. I still have to put the curtain back up and the wall plates.

frosty walk

My Sabbath morning nature post got delayed a bit by Jaclyn's arrival before church. I got up around 7 and went for a walk on campus and up to the field that used to have soybeans in it. The frost was very fuzzy looking. The birds were out in full force, despite the 26-degree temperature. The ones close to my house were glad I finally rememberd to feed them.

scale

To show you how tall my tree is, here's a picture of me standing by it. I'm not exactly standing up straight, but it should give you an idea of the height. My camera was just sitting on the back of the chaise, so that's why it's crooked.

I'm currently searching for a new scratch art picture candidate. So, if you have something that looks like it would be good (or a request), send it my way.

Happy Sabbath! I know mine will be, since Jaclyn's coming to visit!