Recent Acquisitions

My family has spent Christmas at the Bavarian Inn Lodge and Restaurant in Frankenmuth, MI for years. It's become a family tradition. The inn is reasonably priced and close to home. Only takes us an hour's drive.  The inn also has several indoor pools, a water slide, put-put golf, and game room. This is nice when the weather is nasty, we can stay indoors at the inn and still have some family fun time. The restaurant has a great family style broasted chicken dinner that is to die for. My son would eat the bowl of buttered noodles alone if we let him.

Downtown Frankenmuth has lots of shops but by far the best known is a huge Christmas store called Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland. The store is so huge, they measure it in football fields. It's five and a half football fields of indoor sales floor space, all in one building.

This was this year's first purchase.

THIS is how Santa looks in our home.

I also found this kilted Santa but passed on purchasing it. Maybe next year.

Things From My Desk: Grumpy Coffee Mug

There are many things I find necessary to function each and every day. One of these is caffeine. My preferred delivery system is coffee. Tea is okay, but I still like a double strong, double sweet cup of joe.

This mug has a couple of nice features. First of all, it's huge. It's almost impractically large for your standard mug shape receptacle. It's kinda heavy, and unless you guzzle it down, the coffee goes cold before you can quaff it. Secondly, it has a prominent image of Grumpy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on it. The text running around the edge says "Grumpy from morning to night."

I don't use it very often. When I do, you'd rather leave me alone until it's empty.

Grumpy needs more coffee!