There is one pic this week.

I had a very strange experience Wednesday. I came down the stairs and walked toward the kitchen. Right behind me, I heard a crash. I turned around and found a window drape on the floor. There’s a window above our front door. Just a few seconds earlier, the drape had been above that window, up near the ceiling, 20 feet above the floor. You can see Mark holding the fallen drape in the pic. I got out the binoculars. The screw was still in the wall. A plastic collar broke. Now we have a phillips-head screw visible on one side of the window, and a wooden drapery rod holder on the other. The drape and it’s wooden rod didn’t weigh much. There was never any danger. But just for a second, I felt like I was in one of those B-horror movies where the chandelier falls and just misses me because I made an unpredictable move. With the drape 20 feet high, it’s for sure nobody has been disturbing the drape. Who knows? Maybe there are poltergeists.

We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving. There were six — Bud, Mark, Ed, and Lynne joined us for dinner. Danita took Wednesday off to cook because she has always done that. But she admitted it wasn’t really necessary this year, because the dinner was so small.

One of our family traditions ended this year. Ever since the kids were all in school, Danita and I took off the first Friday in December for Christmas shopping. Danita would have suggestions for everybody’s presents. We went out to breakfast as early as we could and reviewed the list. Then we hit the streets to buy all the stuff. (Or as much of it as we could.) It worked out well. The stores weren’t too crowded, and we had the whole day to shop without kids. When school was out, we would pick the kids up and go out to dinner. The kids didn’t even know all their Christmas presents were in the trunk as we drove to dinner.

This year, Danita didn’t want to take another day of vacation. She had missed two days from having her cold, and was behind at work. Her suggestions were ready, so we did our Christmas shopping Saturday. We went to Bob Evans for an early breakfast. We reviewed the list and bought almost all the stuff. Crowded stores weren’t an issue, because we bought everything on-line. I had my laptop with me, and we bought everything while sitting at the breakfast table. We were totally done well before 9 AM. Everything should be delivered by mid-week. And … we ate breakfast out 2 days in a row. (We don’t skip Sunday breakfast out justs because we went out Saturday!)

Last week I was concerned because only one person from the web posting class was posting on our web site. I am pleased to announce that our web posters are all busy posting away.

Today we saw the James Bond movie Spectre. We went to an 11:30 AM show, as usual for us. The movie has been playing for several weeks. We expected the theater to be almost empty. We were quite surprised to find the theater full. It wasn’t packed, but it was full. The movie was great fun.

That’s all the news this week. I hope this finds everybody doing well.