December 1st our town had its annual parade of lights. GraceAnne has been in it with her Girlscouts troop the last few years. Every year they have a theme. GraceAnne was a red present. SO CUTE!
The littles enjoyed the lights, but they were pretty naughty the whole time. There was a lot of chasing going on.
We went to Bethlehem Revisited last year. I know I talk about this every year, but I really do love this ministry. They set up an area the size of a block to look like Bethlehem and people dress up like they would have in Jesus' time. You can follow the Holy Family through the town, and watch Jesus be born. Then you can follow the wisement as they go to see Jesus. The whole town is bustling with excitement, as the census is being done and sleep Bethlehem has some tourism traffic. Too cool. The littles really liked all the live animals and talked about "Baby Jesus" all the way home.
There we all are in front of the church that puts the production on. Hard to believe it was 2 years ago that I went into labor there. Watching my little boy run all over the place made me tear up a few times.
Last night the girls and I went with a good friend from church to a Christmas "play" here in town. It was pretty amazing! We were out late and had yummy snacks and good company and lots of fun.
This morning I'm "dressed up" but I can't tell anyone why yet. Soon enough :)
So last week cold weather set in BIG TIME. Well, big time for Texas. We were down in the 20's overnight. Peanuts don't like frost, so I covered the plants a couple nights until it was decent enough during the day to get out there and dig them up. I laid them out on a sheet to dry for a couple days before plucking them all off today. I don't think I got quite the yield we could have, but I would consider the project a huge success for my first time! Next year I'm going to plant earlier and devote one whole box to them (they were sharing a box with garlic, rosemary, basil and tomatoes this year) and research what they like. Overall, they were exceedingly easy, very drought tolerant (important this year!) resistant to pests and disease.
There's our little harvest! That came from 8 plants...or maybe it was 7. I dont' remember, but not very many. There would have been more, but some were very shriveled? I am not sure if I under-watered (I watered when they started to droop, about every week or so) or if it was *too* hot (we had many, many days over 100 this year) or if my soil was not what peanuts like. There's plenty there to save for seed for next year and to snack on, though! Very exciting.
And these guys made me laugh. That was my only triple nut, but there were plenty that were nice and fat like that.
Today we're shutting the home internet off. We'll have it on our phones, but it's hard to blog from a phone, so hopefully once a week I can go bum some free wifi somewhere and make a post. It's just gotten too expensive lately and we can't really see anything awful about shutting it off, so...we are. I still have the same phone number I've had for 5 years, though and the same email I've had for 12 (omg, I'm getting old!) so contacting me will be easy enough if you need to or want to :)
Lots of love! Praying your holiday season is amazing :)
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