I haven't seen a lot of it lately, but the snow seems to help. Dogs are always Christmas cheery.
How long will it take to remember that some types of braking (the you're going too fast although props for the confidence type of braking) could turn you loose into the lane you can't see out of your passenger side window which yes, you should have gotten back out and cleaned off even though you just did.
That's right, high traffic melts snow which turns into ice. This is my new car's first winter and it keeps beeping while I blindly skid toward large trucks. I do not find the wild blinking and beeping helpful.

I decided to go back to making homemade presents this year and think I can dig in soon without fear of things getting too stale (edible presents can be cooled by the window now that the weather had turned).
The Hershey's Kiss on a pecan half on a Kraft caramel recommended by my Godmother for Thanksgiving did not work. Any checking or adjustment will knock the whole precarious thing apart and any attempt to fix the one that fell will create a domino effect of catastrophic candy. My ratio was about 1 out of 20 for a pretty mediocre, partially melted snack.
On the menu so far: Red and Green Jell-O popcorn balls, two kinds of caramel popcorn balls, caramel, the turtle popcorn pictured above (this batch is from the State Fair), cut out cookies, peanut butter cookies, Melted Moments (like Mexican Wedding Cake cookies with a cherry and one of those milk chocolate Kisses), Puppy Chow, fudge, and possibly brownies.
The urge to make dog biscuit cut outs has come and gone. Sorry, dogs who can read and access the Internet.

SoCo came by to show me she was prepared for the weather

I'll be putting photos from this year's Capitol Christmas Pageant up soon.