Xmas loot!

We had a nice relaxed Christmas.  I got up early and fried up 3.5 pounds of bacon (eating perhaps a half-pound in the process) and Tim brought over fresh sweet rolls.  We noshed and then had Mimosas and Pomoses while opening presents, one at a time, for about three hours.

I got a clever bird feeder.  The birds can access the seeds through round windows, but if a squirrel steps up to the plate, its weight pulls down shields over the windows.  Boy, does that make them mad!  I wonder how long it will take for them to subvert it.



Lots of good books and CD's --


CD's –
Tom Rush at Symphony Hall
Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture of You
Willy Nelson – To All the Girls
Billy Joe Armstrong – Foreverly
Minnesota Public Radio – Keepers Car Songs
Four Good Days – Jack Williams


books –
The Gorgeous Nothings, Emily Dickinson (photocopies of her rough drafts, on scraps and envelopes, etc.)
Dotter of her Father's Eyes (graphic novel about James Joyce's daughter), Mary & Bryan Talbot
Complete Poems of James Dickey
Steinbeck in Vietnam
for the Birds (a month-to-month feeding guide)
Lucia Joyce -- To Dance in the Wake (bio of James Joyce's "mad" daughter)
Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1923-25
Bushman Lives! – Daniel Pinkwater
The World Until Yesterday, Jared Diamond
Pluche or The Love of Art, Jean duTourd
Autobiography of Mark Twain, v. 2
All the Odes, Pablo Neruda
The Men Who United the States, Simon Winchester
The Great Vegan Cookbook
boxed set of Downton Abbey