Holiday preparations continue...

Tess and I made a little progress on the gingerbread last night and early this morning. We're making an Athabascan cabin. So far, we're about done with the candy cane stream, cabin with moosemeat smokehouse, cache, fish drying rack, and snowshoes. We still need to finish the dogsled, moose and woodpile. We should be able to complete these by this evening. I'll be delivering it to the bank in Eagle River where the competition is being held by tomorrow afternoon.

We also made slight progress on the Christmas tree last night. Stephen finished hanging the newly purchased lights on it. So at least now it's fully lit. Once the gingerbread is out the door, we can switch our full focus to tree and other Christmas decorating.

Folks here like Christmas lights. And while it would seem logical to just leave the lights up all year, seeing as there's plenty of "dusk hours" in which they could be illuminated, I think most folks actually put them up and take them down each year. This may be more predominant in our area because there are many military families here and they may not be living in the same house for years on end.

We'll be getting our exterior Christmas lights hung soon. I'll try to post pictures of those and some interesting displays around the neighborhood.