Author: Steve

We’ve reached Lady Godiva look.

Perhaps next up is Rapunzel.

The presents piling high underneath the Christmas Tree, carefully (not) wrapped by Amazon and UPS, in line with our strategy of ordering whatever we need (and sometimes just want) online, then not opening the packages until Christmas morning.

Before.

Old.  A little crooked.  Clunky.

Now.

Neat.  Clean.  Seats six.

Now we can have more than two friends!

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph, with your nose so bright
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?

Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
You’ll go down in history

Okay.  It was a happy ending for Rudolph, and Santa got what he needed.  But what about all the other reindeer?  They were terrible people to begin with.  They teased Rudolph for being different and wouldn’t play with him, and Santa apparently didn’t intervene.  Then when the reindeer discovered that the boss liked Rudolph because he was useful, the suck-ups decided that Rudolph was a hero.  Did Rudolph change?  No.  Did Santa?  No.  What about all the other reindeer that were jerks?

Well, the story is set to nice jingly music.

We get to see lots of woodpeckers at home, but not the red-headed, so it’s special when we find him.  Often, woodpeckers just look like this:

A silhouette in crummy light and we can’t make out much detail.

However, last trip to East Texas, we were able to get a better look with better lighting and got this:

A red-headed woodpecker (center frame) shining in the sun!

Way cool.