The Toyman Hath Cometh

For the holidays, Josh's folks sent him a remote control set comprised of a semi truck and helicopter. Each unit can be controlled from the remote, but only one at a time. Which is a good thing, as he has to choose between chasing the Bassets around the house with the semi truck or attacking Libby from above with the helicopter. There's a lot of barely controlled descents, given he tends to fly it into the walls, ceiling and me. *eye roll* The kit comes with spare parts for fixing the helicopter, apparently lack of flying control was a known entity.

They also sent us the entire family train collection. Four huge boxes worth of N-scale & American Flyer S-scale towns, tracks, trains and accessories. Four HUGE boxes. We've repacked most of it into one of Josh's Navy footlockers, but there's several boxes left over. Thankfully, we've been told that there's no sentimentality attached so what we decide to do with all of this is completely up to us. No strings attached.

There's a model train conference at the Pacific Science Center in January we'd like to attend. We're thinking to get the entire collection cleaned up, cataloged, get digital pics, run prices against Ebay and see what we can do about selling these sets off to someone who will really appreciate them. We've got someone's dream sitting in there, we just need to find that certain someone.

Holidaze, yessiree

Somehow, we've actually managed to finish sending out our holiday cards. I think for possibly the 2nd time in our marriage. I filled out all the addresses and handed them to hubby to fill out. Hopefully, this will become our annual ritual so we can ensure this is taken care of. We don't send out many, barely a dozen - everyone else gets electronic wishes.

I also managed to send out WSU cheeses to our parents. Cheesy? Yes. But a tradition, nonetheless.

Just in time to freshen up and head out the door to meet up with friends for dinner, then caravan over to the Grange meeting tonight.