It's not 20*F here...

As I'm viewing the wx in areas of our wonderful country, it dawns on me that Karen and I are truly blessed to be able to spend our time with barely any clothes on, enjoying the temperatures, swimming in the 90* water, with a slight tropical breeze to cool our skin. And I didn't even mention that we have this to look forward to for the next....um....let's see...I guess it would be...um...yep...6 months!

I guess things could be better...we could have all of you here to enjoy it with us.

There is a blog that we follow that is absolutely hilarious   www.dearmissmermaid.blogspot.com
She also has written some books that are a great read. Below is a recent excerpt:

Beautiful Hand Made Christmas Slippers
I've been busy all day making Christmas Slippers so when the big day
arrives, my friends will have something festive to wear on their
tootsies. These are fairly economical and fit my tiny gift budget
perfectly this year.

Here's the instructions and supply list:

A box of Maxi Pads (you will need 4 per pair of slippers)
Tape or Glue
Little Red Bows (2 per pair of slippers)
Optionally little Snowmen or Santas or Christmas Decor

Lay out two pads, for the soles.
Tape or glue the other two pads around the lower sole, for making the top of the slippers
Tape or glue the red bows in the center of the top of the slippers
Decorate with little snowmen or small candies or small ornaments, use glue or tape to hold in place

These slippers have many unqiue features

Budget Friendly

Absorb Sweat from Feet

Built-in deoderant feature

Soft

Hygenic

Environmentally Safe

Non Allergenic

Disposable

Biodegradable


The really cool thing is, once the holidays are over you can remove the red bows and decorations to recycle for next Christmas. Also, when you are cleaning up from New Year's Eve debauchery,these slippers can be used to mop up spilled champagne or eggnog, then tossed out.


Go check out her site and look at the slipper pictures....it was such an inspiration that I've sent Karen to the store for some supplies to make Xmas presents for all of you!

I went diving the other day and saw some interesting things:

I saw Karen in the holiday spirit






 

A christmas sea star

One of Santa's slow reindeer

No, we haven't been getting too much sun, but thanks for worrying about us.



So you don't think we've forgotten what snow looks like...we have pictures to look at! The orchard in our backyard...Montana....winter 2008!