Congratulations Mel....cute name...I like it... it isn't Lars Larsson, or Olaf Olofsson! I get to say that as all my ancestors are named that on one side....

On those 'hot thingies' you put in gloves....they do work, but as u said, not to put anything hot or cold, chemical or electrical on bare skin. I have those things here at home...it is tough to put them in shoes as they throw off your gait.

I am off to make gingerbread men...and women. We are snowed in to the max....we were on the ice/snow border and we got snow, thank God---it is really coming down, schools are closed and making cookies on a day like today is tradition.

Labradors, (dogs) love this kind of weather.....they cry to go out and flail around in the flakes, chase like crazy. I would say we have 6 inches so far, today....and it is still coming. My dogs (3 of them) have an acre fenced in by invisible fencing so they run around like crazy, when they look like Yetis they beg to come in! They get tired, come in all wet, eat a chew, then go to the patio door and whine to go out again. I mop up and it starts all over.

I keep getting my socks wet....so it is a cold feet day. That is OK, I have lots of socks that must have been made by Mrs. Olof Olofsson (AKA Anna Andersdotter), or some other aptly named little gnome...so I keep switching socks. I am now warming them up ahead of time on my heating pad!!! My, my, I am good!!! I think I am getting this cold feet thing down. Ya hey dair....Happy Holidays!

Oh and Wiix....consider me the Erma Bombeck of PN....I am glad you enjoy my humor....I am sure there are those who think I need haldol. I do cry as much as I laugh...only I tend to bawl in private...(oh my, even that had a double entendre). Sorry, I can't help it. I need a comedy show....(boy would I need the make-up---I could keep quite a few of them make-up artists employed.)