COLD NOVEMBER DAYS...

Ah, November... your days have become down right cold...I dare say my hope of an Indian summer...sadly... has been laid to rest... 

 ...I  concede and let go of my hold onto Fall...  the sights and sounds of the Christmas season have arrived...Christmas trees shine with their twinkling white lights, holiday music fills the air... today Santa Claus arrived at the Maine Mall...yes, I went to the mall on a Saturday...call me crazy...to purchase a snowsuit for Travis...a snowsuit at a fifty percent discount...yippee...I found the snowsuit, however, no size 12 months...so, home I return and on line I go...will I ever learn...

 Back on the home front days begin early. Travis' dad is still in New York, one of many utility workers from around the country helping to get the power back on. Both sets of grandparents help out anyway we can...oh, how the warmth from the wood stove is most welcoming...Travis and I watch the squirrels empty the bird feeder before the chickadees have even awakened...

 Sadie Mae enjoys the warmth from her favorite chair...

Travis sees snow for the first time...we "bundle up" and get our early morning walk in...we bake in the morning and in the afternoon we read...

"No David" is a favorite children's book of mine...

and I think it will be one of Travis's too...

Goodnight from Maine...