Anyway, even though I have nothing done for Christmas does not mean that I have not been busy. Last Wednesday I had to go to the north side of Chicago and take my Illinois Pesticide General Standards and Right of Way exams. That pretty much ate up an entire day. I have started to do some Christmas baking and fudge making as time permitted, but I still have some to do.
I have been very busy doing Star Wars events the past couple weeks and have several others coming up. On 11-24-13 I went down to the Rialto Theater in Joliet. The MWG was asked to decorate one of the trees for the Festival Of Trees. Each year trees are decorated by various groups and auctioned off with the proceeds going to the up-keep of the Rialto. It was a pretty laid back event. I had decorated some store ornaments and provided a collection of Burger King toys from 2005 to add to the tree. Now we will see what kind of donation that tree gets.
On Thanksgiving morning I headed to the Blue Line Station in Forest Park to meet up with some of my fellow Star Wars costume friends and from there we headed downtown to the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade. Last year we were #91 in the parade but this year we scored the #13 spot! I gotta say it was great to be at the front of the parade. A LOT less standing around. Last year the weather was beautiful so standing around wasn't too bad. This year, however, it was cold on Thanksgiving Day. According to the weather forecaster, it was the coldest Thanksgiving in 24 years. It didn't seem too bad though. 
I wore my Snowspeeder Pilot costume and had no real issues with being cold except for my hands. They were shot even with two pairs of gloves on. I made it to Joan's house but was really tired. I visited with the gang but didn't stay for dinner as I knew that I was going to have a rough day at work on Friday.
Yesterday I had my annual "Work Off the Turkey" workday at Hickory Creek Barrens. We had a great turnout and got lots of work done as we continue "marching" our way southward in an area between the trail and the railroad tracks. I was very glad that Linda Andrews and I did several outings to the areas we worked in last year to do follow up as you could really notice that time had been spent doing the very necessary spraying of re-sprouts and seedlings. I have some high hopes for that area once some good seed starts making its way up there. Today is going to be spent getting caught up with all of the things I have not done yet for Christmas. I have almost finished putting up the tree. I plan to go out to American Sales this morning to buy some lights for outside. I am tired of the same old/same old that I have decorated the outside with for the past 25 years and I don't feel like putting lights up on the house or in the bushes outside (most of which I removed) anymore so I am going to see if I can find some inexpensive light up alternatives.
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