Lucy at the Park

This is what the house looked like this morning, when I decided to wake up and take Lucy to the park. It was so cold I almost decided not to go, but I didn't have the heart to bring Lucy back into the house. She was already half covered in snow by then.

Malu taught Lucy to catch softballs and now it's her favorite thing to do in the park. I brought the bat out there and thought that she'd have a hard time seeing the softballs in the snow, but she's a pro! She had a blast. Lucy hates the camera. I think the flash reminds her of lightning, which she is deathly afraid of. So now, whenever I pull the camera out, she makes a run for it. That's what she's doing here. She even knows that cell phones have cameras in them. So if you whip your cell phone out and look in her direction, she bolts into another room. Crazy dog!

Here, we're getting into the car and heading to Walmart to pick up the Christmas greeting cards I ordered. Speaking of which, I was able to get all my cards done today, along with a few Christmas packages. I'll be heading to the post office tomorrow to get all that out of the way. Not only that, Anna and I went through my walk-in closet today and set aside a ton of clothes to donate to Goodwill. What a productive day!

As promised (and totally off on a tangent), here are two scarf and hat sets that I finished not too long ago. Not bad for cheater knitting--as Misty calls it :) Hey, it's fun!

On another note, the transportation folks from Fort Carson came over today to do a walk-through and assess how many days will be needed to pack and load all my stuff for my big move. It'll take a total of three days--two to pack and one to load. Everything will be done on the 29th, 30th and 31st. I tried not to have people working on New Year's Eve but was told they'd be working anyway. Let's just hope they get done in time for me to party up the New Year with my family!

So my one big task for the rest of the week is to clean and organize my basement. There's a butt-load of junk down there just waiting to be sifted through. Oh yeah, let's not forget the one closet I have in one of our guest rooms. I call it the "chaos" closet. It literally has all kinds of crap in it that I, (1): didn't feel like sorting through or (2): quickly tossed in so that guests wouldn't see them lying around. Argh! Wish me luck!