Black Friday, Pictionary, Hobbit and Fences.

  This past month has been something else. It seems as though you see all the same news stories about Black Friday, "People get trampled, Brawls Erupt etc." It amazes me that people can act in such a way. We never go shopping during Black Friday, but then again, Elizabeth is a small, town, so I don't think anybody got trampled or beaten to death here.

  This Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, unfortunately, our cousins were not there, but we made the best of it. We played "Pictionary", and our team totally smoked the other team, by more than half the board. We had the better guessers, and the other team was more skilled at drawing.

  We then hit a cold snap, which sent temperatures down to -15 here. I must say, I was not happy when the chicken waterer was frozen solid one morning, but hey, what do you expect when it is -15? Our chickens seemed to have all but stopped laying eggs; however, we have been getting more and more as the temperatures rise. 

  

  This week, my brother and I went down to our grandparents to fix their picket fence, which a bear tore down. It wasn't so hard getting the posts out of the ground, except for the second post which was sunk in concrete and sandstone, that took us quite a bit to finally get the concrete out, but luckily, we got them all out, and the new ones in and put in concrete by the end of the day. we got everything else done the next day. 

  While we were there, we saw the movie "Hobbit" for the first time. I'm not huge into fantasy movies, but this was the exception, it was really good, and I really enjoyed it, especially the battle scenes. The next day, we went to the theatre to see a movie called "Frozen" but I guess something was not right on their website, so they had no tickets for it, so we ended up watching the second Hobbit, which was even better than the first, but they leave you hanging in both ones. 

  I still have to get Thanksgiving pictures done, I might post some odds and ends from that batch, but I hope to post some pictures of the frost soon. We had a really cool frosty morning on Friday, it looked sort of Narnia-ish, everything look white, and there wasn't even a breeze outside, and it wasn't terribly cold out either. 

Anyway, here are the pictures for the day.   

 { SHORTY }