Ornaments

Last year’s Christmas tree has been put to good use.

Step 1: use bandsaw to cut trunk into round “wood cookies”

Step 2: drill holes

Step 3: find the old snowflake generator

Step 4: make a spreadsheet with an algorithm to turn people’s names into a seed to feed into the snoflakerator and generate SVG files

Step 5: laser etch snowflakes onto wood cookies!

Holiday card prints in process

 Madly rushing to get the Christmas... er... New Years cards put together.

The Wise Man

Busy singing season

 It's holiday singing season these days, evenly mixed between informal and formal concerts in venues in and around Santa Fe.  Fa la la la la!  Chad is very patient with the schedule.

Cat adventures

 Things the cats have been up to (aside from eating sleeping cuddling wrestling etc)

Hanging out in their backpacks.

Learning to take walks

Getting into the food whenever they can.  How Arp managed to knock this off the counter without spilling any is beyond me.

Taking umbrage at the lack of wet food?  Again, a very talented move.

Adjusting to snow.  We eventually got them little coats, at the hardware store, of all places.

Taking over the firewood bucket

Mousie play.  Arp will play fetch.  And drop the mouse in less-than-ideal places.

Attacking the laser pointer.  A favorite of Charlie's.

Trying to inhabit the piano.  This is verboten.

Attacking the Christmas tree.  We've gotten lights up and nothing bad has happened, so might try some non-fragile ornaments soon.

Grooming Chad's beard.  Arp thinks this is serious business.

And they've been GROWING!  They are basically double the size they were when we got them a couple of months ago.

Starting the snow recreation season in earnest

 We got out a couple of times to really recreate in the snow this week, once to snow show out near Aspen Peak, and once to skin up the hill at the ski area to check out the early season skiing.  Yay winter!