What a productive Saturday! The

What a productive Saturday! The plan for today was to string up christmas lights on the house. We had bought four boxes of icile lights last weekend but, due to bad weather, couldn't hang them. This morning was raining, too, despite what the local news and weather.com predicted. That didn't faze me too much, since I first had to install an outlet for the lights, anyway. So I ran by Home Depot to get the neccessary components and started working on the outlet.

Eventually the weather turned nicer and we managed to hang most of the lights. I discovered that I needed some more screws to finish the electric hook-up (I also discovered that you can simply run the cable under the front door - alas I was to far into the project to back out). Do we went out for dinner (portabello-proscuito pizza at Brick Oven Pizza is divine) and by Home Depot again. When we got home, I went ahead to finish the outlet and promptly managed to crack the outlet face plate, so it'll be another trip to Home Depot tomorrow.

Still, most of it got done, the lights look lovely and we should have it finished tomorrow. We also made over a hundred cookies - Jennifer made her peanut butter blossoms and I made coconut balls (no flour - just butter, sugar, cacao, egg white and coconut). We have plans for at least two more kinds of cookies for the holidays.