This coming January, Washington D.C. will be dealing with the Presidential Inauguration and Obama will be taking his oath on the same bible that President Abraham Lincoln lay his hand on for the same purpose so many years ago. I like that concept, this whole event will be attended by record crowds and will certainly go down in the history books in so many intriguing ways, it will be interesting how this all plays out.

During Christmas dinner, the subject of recycling beer and soda cans came about, in which I found out that there is a local company that will pay you cash for these types of cans. The price just recently went down from sixty seven cents per pound, to thirty two cents a pound, what a drastic price drop, but all the same we are now making an effort of sorting these two types of cans into a separate container on the back porch and when we get a dozen big trash bags or so we will take a trip downtown and see what kind of cash it brings in to the household.

We all ready sort and recycle, so it will not take too much of an added effort in order to bring in a few bucks now and then.

We have always saved the box tops for education label and coupons for many years and turned them into the various schools that our kids have attended, but we have just recently started saving the cans of Campbell’s soups to turn in for another fund raising program that they have just started participating in at our youngster’s school.

Yesterday we approached our youngest with a bag full of cans, questioning the ability to transport this large bag, along with the always carried book bag, on the all ready fully crammed school bus. That is when we were informed that we were supposed to take the labels off of the cans and send those in, minus the cans!

Dah, now why didn’t we think of that?

During the winter months, I do spend a good amount of my time both at home and a work, outside in the cold and damp weather conditions. The wife heard one of the kids talking about these hand warmers that are all the rage with the cheerleaders that spend so much time in the cold weather also and she decided to inquire about these new products and ask around a bit for more info.

While the wife was at Wal Mart, doing some holiday shopping and picking up groceries as well, she checked in the Hunting Department and found this wonderful product and bought a dozen or so of these packets, that you open and shake for a few moments, and that you put in your pocket or gloves and they provide continuous heat for 10 full hours or more.

She was thinking of making these one of my Christmas presents this year, but she gave them to me early due to the extreme weather conditions that we are experiencing this year. I tried them out earlier today and was impressed with how well they worked, I’m glad that she took and ran with this brilliant idea, she is good to me.

After going out and picking out a Christmas tree and getting it in the house and in place, waiting for the annual decorating to commence later in the week, I intend to stay close to home and watching the Washington Redskins play against the Baltimore Ravens, as both teams look to keep pace with the other playoff contenders in their conferences.

In fact there are several important games going on today, such as the Cowboys and the Steelers, on at 4:00 and at 1:00 the Eagles and Giants are playing in New York, I’m thinking that the Giants are going to win out and I’m hoping the that Cowboys get their butts kicked all the way back to Texas. Of course the Redskins are the home team and it sure would be good for moral around here it the Redskins managed to keep the Ravens at bay tonight.