Charmion, it sounds like time to have someone grade that driveway up to the garage lip with a load of asphalt! Didn't you say the rubber edge was there until it is fixed?

Today I have a longish drive, made so by the Corps of Engineers' project called Grapevine Lake. All of my working life in North Texas involved driving around a different dammed lake, I'm accustomed to it, but it does make me wish I had the funds to own a personal helicopter.

This morning the dogs alerted me to the mail carrier on the porch, and I met him in the yard with an eBay box to post, thinking I'd missed him because there was a box for me out there when I looked earlier. He tells me that after Black Friday (and the shopping after) there are so many packages that one run isn't enough, so he's at the post office early just to take boxes around the route. This later run at the regular time he has the rest of the mail pieces. Postal carriers can only accept gifts under $20 (unlike our head of state who can accept any damn thing he wants) so I'll think of something, a gift card or a consumable gift. Over time I put a lot of bottles of water on the porch during the summer heat, but when you buy a case at Costco and give all of them out it only adds up to about $4.

My holiday letters are in the design stage, fitting the text around a few photos. I've proof read it several times but there will be errors that jump out at me once the pages are printed and ready to add a personal note before mailing, it never fails.