Ink and Watercolor Pencils
I was sitting on the couch in the living room yesterday evening before starting on cooking dinner and picked up my notebook. I write thoughts and ideas in this notebook everyday (I now have a whole library of notebooks tucked in all sorts of places around the house) and, quite often, add some sketches of some of my ideas or thoughts. Yesterday, I was thinking about Christmas and the lake house. Every year of my life, in the few months preceding Christmas, my mind always drifts to spending Christmas in an Adirondack lodge-type of home or lake house setting. I have not had the opportunity to do this just yet but I do plan to do this at least once before I have no Christmases left. The closest I have come to living this annual dream of spending Christmas in an Adirondack-type lodge or lake house has been a few Christmases spent on various air bases. Back in my earlier years of my Air Force career, the Airman's Club was typically the hub of social life on every base. For variou