Let it snow

Slow weekend around Stately LLama Manor. Yesterday, I caulked the tub and shower off the master bath. Today, our annual ritual of taking down the Christmas Tree to coincide with that important religious festival, the NFC Championship Game. The kids, befitting the family ritual of some friends down the street, wore their jammies inside out and backwards to make it snow. Didn't work last night, but we're right on the white side of the big buzz saw storm going across the southeast.

Last weekend we went to Williamsburg for Mr. Skinny's eigth birthday--I'll download the pictures and do a little essay on that later, as well as an essay I've been working on on Faith, Technology, Science, and Magic as a theme in a number of novels I've read as of late: S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire trilogy, Neal Stephenson's The System of the World, and the last Harry Potter book. Alchemy plays a prominent role in all.

Yips! from Robbo: Oddly enough, the Llama-ettes were telling me about that same snow-inducing pajama ju-ju this morning. Only they say that you're also supposed to sleep with a spoon under your pillow.