12/25/06: Oh, the heck with political correctness. Merry Christmas to everyone! Here's a picture of our little
Charlie Brown tree. Stephie threw out our old tree stand last year, which served us well all these years despite getting pretty nasty looking as time went by, but when time came to buy a new stand, all the she saw were stands for your standard huge tree (at least huge compared to the ones we usually get). She just couldn't find one that would work for little trees like this guy. We tried the blanket routine (a la
Linus) but finally my folks came through with a stand they weren't going to use this year, saving Christmas!
12/09/06: Today, we've revived a long-standing tradition that anyone who has read
Cheyenne's Pages would probably know about. As you can see from the picture here, we took Kisu to see Santa Claus! She doesn't look really thrilled to be there (and neither does Santa for that matter) but I think that was more due to her recent aversion to slick tile floors. The last couple weeks at
obedience class she has been hesitant to step off the mats onto the tile, where she has problems with traction. But today she behaved well, and so did Santa.
And tonight I was able to use this really cool program that I installed a while back and really haven't spent any time with. When we got home from my parent's house, I noticed that there was a star or planet directly below the moon, and another one below and a little to the left. I immediately went inside and fired up the version of
Stellarium that I installed several months ago, and it told me that the star below the moon was actually
Saturn, and the other object was
Regulus, which is apparently the brightest star in the constellation of Leo. Just another example of how computers can enhance your life. Stellarium is an open-source program, which means it's free for anyone to download and use, although it runs a little too slow to be useful on Stephie's computer. But if your system is up to it, you should
check it out!
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