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I'd love to have my stuff up longer but I use the first available day after the year starts because another one may not be free for a while.

$50K! Holy S--t!

We still have the outdoor lights up. Indoors has been dismantled. Our excuse for the outdoor lights is it's too damn cold to go out there and take them down. So we might as well light them up and chase away the dark gloom. I'd say half to a third of the houses on our street that put up lights are still displaying them.

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Been lost in the holiday- maze - o - activity and still in the midst of decorations and Christmas lights that DH seems to enjoy during the dark winter season. I think stuff should come down January 1st and we made a compromise to keep Xmas up until the battery powered lights died. Damn batteries will not give it up despite being left on 24/7. Time to renegotiate....

The snow here is lovely and with the full moon about here, spectacular! Swanny often engages in after walk zooming and the snow just intensifies his enthusiasm for more. more, and more.

Even though 140 is slap in the middle of my desired weight range, being so close to it makes me nervous in the same way as 120 does you, Liz. The good I see in this is that I can take inventory; easy to see how slider carbs have taken too great a percentage of my food intake. The # doesn't matter- what does (and should) make me concerned is the " no big deal, will start tomorrow " tape I've been playing for days now.

If not now, when? If not me, .... who?

I have totally lost track of the days of the week this week.

Yesterday I had lunch with friends, ran some errands and walked the dog. He gets post walk zoomies that make me wonder how much gas he carries in his tank if a walk doesn't tire him out!

The fires got me thinking about my house (my wildfire risk score used by insurance is the highest category of "Extreme"). We are on a community well. Once our water tank and pond run dry, that's it. No city water runs our hydrants. So I got to wondering if it would be smart to get a small gas-powered pump with a hose that I can leave by the pool for firefighters. I texted my friend who's husband is a 35 year retired CalFire battalion chief to ask him if that was a silly idea. He called and said it was a great idea and he can source one for me with his former supply contacts and it would be a lot less expensive than the websites that cater to retail CA customers. He suggested I talk to my neighbors with pools too. Only 3 of the houses in my neighborhood don't have pools. The other 10 do.

No plans for today, maybe just small project tasks like continuing to try to get the hose off the hose bib that's stuck.

Hope everyone has a great day!