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Here’s reader number one beside an uprooted tree from a camping trip this summer. The tree had grown on top of the large rock Number One is standing on and when the flood came and the winds blew it fell down. Or something like that. The root ball looks pretty cool on its side.

Took the family to the Mercer Museum again tonight – it’s the third or fourth time I’ve been there. It was free Tuesday, so it didn’t even cost us anything. Of course, now that I’m a museum member there, it’s always free for me for a year. We stepped inside the Spruance Library inside the museum, and it’s pretty cool. They’ve got a lot of really old Bucks County history. I’m planning to find some time to go research what was on our property before it was a house. I know there was a sheep farm immediately beforehand, but I wonder what came before that.

Reader number three and Melissa are leaving in just two days. Their visit has been much too short!

Here’s another in my famous Window series. This one isn’t quite as dramatic as the workshop picture so well known to my readers, but I think it gives a nice effect. Let me know your humble opinion.

Had a nice Christmas holiday. So much so, in fact, that I’m dreading going back to work tomorrow. Oh well, at least my next holiday is coming right up at the end of May. Sigh.

Merry Christmas week! We’re in the Virginia mountains this week, so there won’t be the normal number of posts.

Here’s a seventeenth century blacksmith’s shop from Northern Ireland we visited this morning. At the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia, they have farmhouses, barns, and shops from seventeenth century Germany, England, and Ireland, as well as a mid-nineteenth century farm from Virginia. The intent is to show the conditions people left behind in Europe when they came to America, and what they had to look forward to here. It was a fascinating visit. The best part was that you’re welcome to look around nearly everywhere, pick things up, and generally act like you belong there. We walked up and down the stairs, rubbed our hands in front of the fireplaces, and got a real good look at the place and feel for how it really might have been.

On a sad note, we didn’t find an interesting vacation home to buy yesterday. Everything was either too expensive or (much more frequently) too disgusting. No loss, though, other than a little time. We’ll either look here again some other time or try somewhere else. No hurry. In the meantime, we need to fix up the travel trailer a little bit for the next few years’ vacations.

By the way, today’s pictures were taken today by Reader Number Two. Thanks, Mark! I have to show just one more:

I love that picture. Have a great rest of the week.

Yes, I know it’s a weekend, but it’s Christmas Eve and I want to welcome Christmas properly. Here’s the famous Christmas Kettle on the front lawn of the Mercer Museum. Now what could be more festive than that?

I have a third reader! Congratulations and welcome to Paul. You’ll be the featured artwork Real Soon Now.

We went to the Da Vinci Museum in Allentown today for our Annual Christmas Adventure. Like most science museums, it was really aimed at kids younger than ours and it was kind of a small museum anyway, but there were some cool things there and we had a fun time. It just opened a couple of months ago, so the museum is in great shape and most of the exhibits work. There’s a bonus for you.

Plus, we had lunch at Perkins, which is always a treat, huh? They had a Breakfast Food Special that got us into the restaurant, and then we found out it only applies on weekdays. So, the food cost a lot more than we expected, but Perkins really does breakfast food well.

It’s Joseph Smith’s two hundredth birthday today. To remind us of what he started, here’s the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. What a great building!