My Mom forbade me from doing any work on the shed Christmas day. She didn't say anything about Boxing day though. I finished off the last of the dirt pile and made it about half way through the sixth course. Almost half way through the sixth course. Checking level. I'm keeping a close eye to make see the corners don't sag down.

Christmas Eve after getting washed up from shed building. Dad gets a Sarah Palin choke doll Jean gets a rubbish bin Santa Claus delivering the presents A board game about travel blogging. Jean should be good at that one. The instruction reading portion of the evening Christmas day it got up to a balmy 70°. With ladder golf, volleyball, badminton and disc golf we had plenty of outdoor entertainment. Getting organized for White Elephant Aunt Serena gets a window Joey gets a purse. Steve gets a fancy new hat. And Paul gets a redneck Christmas tree.

I had a few days off the week of Christmas so I was able to knock out the fourth and fifth course. About a quarter of the fourth course left to complete Another issue I'm having with deadmen besides some cracking is that the deadmen cause the forms to stick. Here's one I flipped over. I think the moisture causes the wood to swell. The deadmen are approximately 11 inches long. The forms are 12 inches. I could probably make the deadmen an inch or two shorter and still be effective.  Fourth course completed and some of the fifth and sixth as well. The fourth course was the last full course using lime. I'll now only use lime around the windows. The fifth course blocks I made yesterday were a little dry. Took some time out from shed building to help Paul set up a volleyball/badminton net for the Christmas day festivities The poles were a little flimsy. Luckily, our parent's house is abundant with useful odds and ends. We found couple of metal ...

We made it out to the Trail of Lights early to beat some of the chaos that ensues closer to Christmas. Taking off on our adventure Descending into the green belt

Once a year on the first weekend of December we celebrate all things Buda like... The rail road! If it weren't for the rail road Buda would have never come into being. Parades! Mobile Polka bands! Cute dogs! Old cars! Small ponies! Longhorn hood ornaments! Carnival rides! Piggy back rides! Turkey legs! Straw bales! Shopping with Mother-in-laws! Playing on the rail road tracks!