Whoosh!

Hmph!

How in the heck did that happen?  Where did November disappear to?

Well, I'm reoriented to reality and November was taken up with sock knitting for Christmas gifts, and we had ourselves a little jaunt through the eastern mountain ranges of West Virginia and Virginia.

I am amazed at those two states.  Even though we have traveled there before, on this trip I was impressed with the mountains.  I'm not sure there's a flat place anywhere in either of those states.  While we were on a narrow mountain road in WV, traffic was held up on a curve at the bottom of a "holler" while a long-bed truck carrying a huge piece of equipment negotiated the turn.  It must be a logistical nightmare to build things there. I also can appreciate how happy the citizenry was to have some four-lane highways built!

But we found it very pretty even in November, and we saw some wonderful people.

My birthday is this month----along with a great deal of my family----in addition to Christmas and all the solstice celebrations, and the turning of the year.  I'd better not doze off the way in did in November!  I'll miss the whole thing.

I wish you joy this month.  I now zero in on the parts of the celebration that mean the most to me, and minimize the aggravating stuff.  It works out just fine.