December joy!

I see I got a couple posts out of order, but no one reads this but me mostly.  A post from last summer was in the drafts file, so I actually didn't go a whole year without posting!  Who cares, anyway?  So this month so far has been busy and fun.  the Festival of the Nativities last weekend was a great way to start out the season with the true meaning of Christmas.  Cara opted to display her very own little Nativity set, and was very proud when we went there and she had to look over all the hundreds of displays to find hers.  It is just a cute little Fisher-Price one  from a couple of years ago.  She has it back home now, on the little table with the "village people".  I let her set up the table herself this year, and she hasn't moved the people around, like she kept doing last year when I set it up myself!  The tree looks great in the corner by the fireplace.  I may leave it up permanently, as the corner will be depressing without it!
Saturday between Choir rehearsal and concert, the Winters came over with their horse trailer and picked up Buckwheat.  She now lives about 2 1/2 miles away at their place with a cute barn with two stalls, and another horse named Sunny.  So she has shelter and a friend!  A big improvement as Tom has not built me the promised shelter for Buckwheat, and it has been raining alot and getting really muddy here in her pasture.  So the Winter's horse has company, and it is a win-win for all of us.  Cara loves to go over there and play in the barn and with their dogs, and we can brush the horses and feed them hay.  I am very relieved to have her  under cover in this wet weather!
Tom's mom coming tomorrow night for a couple of weeks, so am getting the bathroom really clean today, and working on the laundry room!  Tom has to clean his desk off, as she stays in the room where we usually sleep, which is like Tom's cave most of the year.  He had to clean the desk off last year for her, and it has piled up since then!  Tomorrow I will put the flannel sheets on the bed, and wash the covers.  She is not a fussy person about the house, takes after Tom(or vice-versa) but personally, I like to have made an attempt for company coming!  Between the three dogs, Tom and Cara, it is somewhat of a losing battle most of the time!    I will post some photo's of the Nativity Festival!