I did finally find the wall hanging I made a few years back, so it went on the kitchen wall - looks like we're alllll ready for Christmas now.
Apparently the elves told on us. Some (ahem) friends seemed to think we are Scrooging it, so they decided to make our Christmas season a little more merry and bright. We found on our doorstep one evening, a large bag, a 20-pound turkey, and this note:
So we've been really good, no naughty here at all ('cept the CAT), only opening the one package designated for each day. Here's what has happened so far during our 12 DAYS of CHRISTMAS:
2nd day - 2 pounds of raisins (organic - HOW did they know?!); 3rd day - 3 pounds of almonds (RAW almonds, just the BEST!!);
4th day - four pencils; 5th day - five Golden Spaghetti (come on, sing along here, make it work!...); 6th day - 6 cans of veggies...And that's as far as we got, that was all that was in that big sack. But wait! There's more!
Just a few minutes ago, a knock on the door, and SURPRISE! Another sack!
Now you are just going to have to wait, like we are, to see what the next day brings. Tomorrow is 7 pieces of fruit, came already in a lovely bowl. The rest - well, we didn't shake the fancy papered one TOO hard - sounds like a can of those scrumptious Danish butter cookies, hehe! We have our suspicions as to who our merry Jokesters are, and just who they recruited as elves to do the deliveries. Part of the fun is not knowing, so we're not going to do much sleuthing.
Since we'll be in Salem for Christmas day, I decided to include the Santa below to finish off our adventure. He was the prize for a game I won at our Bay City Booster's annual Christmas party this week - pretty cool! Another decoration that doesn't require hanging or climbing!
OK, in the tradition of Paul Harvey, here's the REST of the story!Before I came to stay with mom, she had told me about waking up in the middle of the night a couple of times by loud knocks on the front door, with no one there when she got up to check.
So this week when we had a LOUD knocking on the door while we were watching evening TV, I was a little jumpy about it. I called out, "Who's there?" No answer, of course. So I quickly locked the door, and also the back door. Peeked out the curtain - motion sensor light was on, but nothing to see. I wasn't about to open that door.
After a moment's thought, I called 911 - we have some rowdy, not-so-nice youngsters around our neighborhood, they had been pills all summer and I figured they were good candidates. I just requested a patrol drive through and see if the kids were out and about.
When I hung up, the phone rang almost immediately - it was a hang up. So I called 911 back, and reported it as suspicious. Five minutes later - another call, and hang up. I'm figuring they are getting a little more aggressive about harassing us, so - yep, called 911 again.
I'm on first name basis with the operator by now.
Another 20 minutes later, I'm knitting away, and the lightbulb goes on: what if it is our little neighbor family up the street who are so sweet to mom, bringing her flowers on May Day, etc. , and they've done a treat for us? So I carefully opened the door, and - there was the turkey and bag of packages!
Oh yeah. Another call to 911, to report the goody drop, and call the patrol off.
A bit later, we got a call from our two church missionaries: "Say, we were just driving by a bit ago and noticed you had something on your porch. Did you find it? Wouldn't want the coons to get into anything..." SOOOO subtle, eh? I'm pretty sure those two guys have pointy ears...
So tonight when the not-quite-so-loud knock came, I didn't hesitate to open the door. And retrieved the second half of our 12 Days of Christmas! We sure have fun friends!
We have been chuckling about what could have happened if the missionaries had been intercepted by the patrol - jokesters, indeed! We know they aren't the perpetrators, they are just the wheel men.
All in all, the joke really was on us - Merry Christmas, Tiny Tim!
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