Whip and Dunder

Only two things on the must-do schedule for today - pay property taxes and move Yggdrasil back to the workshop.  First I had to wake up.  In my dream I'd introduced the "." (period) tile to Words With Friends.  There are two per game, you can place it at the end of any word and start another word.  (i.e. BIRDS can become BIRDS.DOESNT).  Only rules are it must be at the end of a valid word and you can't put two periods together.  Once I woke up I realized (1) what conversation had caused me to dream that and (2) maybe I'm spending a bit too much time on WWF.

Town Treasurer Michelle opened up the town hall to collect property taxes this morning.  Property taxes can, of course, be mailed in or put in a drop box at the hall but some of us just like the personal touch of paying at the hall to a live person. I waited less than five minutes as the person in front of me finished up gossiping w/ her in the office. Then it was my turn for some gossip.  As I left another tax payer arrived.  She'll probably have a steady stream of people until she closes at 11 a.m.

I got down the case for Yggdrasil's ornaments.  Fortunately, I kept each individual ornament box so if I have a box left over it means I missed an ornament somewhere.  I worked on it while watching Svengoolie's flick "The Creation of the Humanoids".  By the end of the movie Yggdrasil was bare of ornamentation.  It was 9 p.m. but I moved the little tree over to the workshop in the dark.   The forecast is for snow tomorrow - a possible 10".  Much easier to move the tree now when there are only a couple of inches of the white stuff to go through.  Made sure the tree was in a nice spot, gave it a drink, and shut off the lights.  Sweet dreams until spring.