Last minute Christmas gift idea

For all those loved ones that you have with ferrets and rats that just don't get on the long walks that they should....

... A comfortable harness for that dear, dear ferret or rat is just want Santa needs to bring down the chimney.

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Dear Santa, 

Rather than bringing me this comfort harness, can you please just leave the business card of the person that invented this?  I'm not sure if they might be the coolest person or the type of person that is typically featured on the show Hoarders.  Either way, I'm intrigued. 

Thanks!

AnnE 

let's talk about wine!

I'm not sure if you realize, but we really like wine.  We like to take pictures of wine, we like to talk about wine (in the most elementary fashion possible, of course!), and most importantly, we like to drink wine.  So what better than for Santa to bring us this fun little deck of cards called Wine Topics.

Santa really knows us well - thanks Santa!

No seriously, the wine topics are really fun.  Each card asks a question that gets you thinking about your favorite bottle of wine, favorite winery, or even what you would call your winery if you ever opened one.
ahem ahem ... Barkley might just be the name of the next wine you will see someday!

just a thought.

a trivet project

Typically, your average trivet doesn't involve putting together, however this is no ordinary trivet.  Santa brought us this trivet.  Santa likes to give us things to do.  Santa likes to keep us busy. (I love Santa.)  Anywho, this trivet makes opening a bottle of wine THAT much more exciting.  (and who doesn't think a new bottle of wine isn't exciting to begin with?!?!)  Once we opened a bottle of wine, we immediately screwed it on to the trivet, because we found that if you dilly dally and enjoy the bottle of wine first, you'll break the cork when you try to screw it onto the trivet later on. But we only did this with real corks (which by the way, have you ever noticed that there are very few real corks out there these days?), because although we haven't used it to put a hot dish on, it seems like those pseudo corks would do some funky things if you stuck a dish that had just been baking in the oven. Just a hunch. We'll stay away from and admire our real cork trivet.