Not only have I officially seen my first antler in the back woods, but I just saw two bucks playing the (rein)deer head butt game.

They locked themselves up and twisted each other around and one flung the other off and the loser ran off like a bullet, clearly hoping the does didn’t see.

I only clearly saw antlers on one of them, and they were small. They had two points, tops. Still, it’s nice to know that our little herd is a gender mixed community. I expected all the antlers to have been shed by now, and I thought we’d have to wait until spring to see evidence of males. Nope, I saw antlers, kids!

Another Christmas miracle!

Slow shutter snow trails.

Christmas snow!

First Santa Claus came and left presents, then this morning two (rein)deer came to visit, and now it’s flurrying!

Merry Christmas everybody!!

We had our second annual Christmas Eve in Methuen party tonight. Jen’s mom and step father came along with her aunt and uncle. Larry and Nawal and their son came, and the kids’ father and step mother came too. Food was mowed down, the piano was played, gifts were exchanged, fish Santa was seen on TV, tons of Christmas songs were played from iCloud through our Apple TV, and a good time was had by all of us. It was great to see everyone. I’m glad you could all make it, and I hope we helped kick off your Christmases.

Hohoho!

48 minutes until Santa comes down the chimney, so we have to get to sleep quick!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

It’s Christmas Eve! Santa Claus comes tonight! I hope you’ve all been good. My readers have a 100% success rate in avoiding coal in their stockings. I expect that success rate to be sustained come tomorrow. No pressure, readers.

Jen and I began our Christmas Eve celebration the best way possible. We ignored the alarm clock and slept until almost 8:00am! It’s a Christmas miracle!

Hohoho!

Santa’s coming tonight tonight
Santa’s coming tonight! *

* Christmas music, Spongebob style.

I heard some bad news last night that is going to majorly bum out the kids.

Their favorite Disney Channel show is ending next month. Oh no! What are they going to constantly watch now?

Poor kiddies.

Jen has never seen the Super Best Friends episode of South Park. I went to Netflix to watch it and it’s not there. It’s not available on southparkstudios.com either. All due to a depiction of Mohamed as a member of a group of religious super heros.

Damn it! I bet it’s on the original season 5 DVD though, and I have that somewhere.

I’m on a quest!