Vacation's over and I'll be heading back into the office tomorrow. We had a full weekend, mostly full of "damn this wind!" and "I'm heading downstairs for more firewood."

Saturday, we took one of our infrequent trips to Luray [wikipedia.org] to see my cousins. The girls got to feed the cows and eat cheeseburgers and that, my friends, makes them very happy. I don't think they really make the mental connection of the brown-eyed cow and his unwilling involvement in becoming their cheeseburger, but that's ok.

It was 12F when we crossed the mountain homebound at Thornton Gap [wikipedia.org] amidst some vicious winds. Thank you Honda for the heated seats.

Today, I waffled a bit in the morning on sending the Christmas cards, but I'd already had 60 copies of a picture of the girls printed and in hand, so I settled down and wrote them, and they'll go into the mail tomorrow. Late, yes, but I'm glad I did it. With the blogs and Facebook, it seems a little pointless, since we're all socially-networked, but the list had a solid number of older folks and such that don't use them. Plus, you can't hang a Facebook picture on your fridge door.

Tomorrow's back to school for the kids and I'm grinning now imagining the scowls to be seen round the breakfast table at 7:00 am tomorrow.