[FreeTheHostages]

Thanks for asking how the gingerbread houses turned out today.

Great!! Every single gingerbread party, someone comes up with new innovations. This party yielded the following interesting gingerbread facts:

If you take a big candy cane and lay it on its side against the base of the house, with the curl loop upward and stuck to the side of the house, and then put a couple of Kraft's caramels atop the candy cane, and then put a chocolate Santa on top of that, and then use thin red licorice to draw 2 lines from the Santa to the curl of the candycane, you have a perfectly respectable Santa's sleigh!! The sleigh is the sideways candy-cane!

The other thing I learned was the the new holiday mini-oreos make excellent berets for snowman.

Oh, and I also learned (for the umpteenth time) that I love Dean & DeLuca's holiday candy. :)

I had to do these gingerbread parties and then I had to babysit my niece. All in all, a very good day: but I do regret that I was thus previously booked and couldn't attend the DC Chapter holiday party. I had planned to buy Mudboy tequila for co-judging and I had planned to bring a gingerbread house for Tgsltakoma, all if I had time, which I just didn't.

[Mudboy Slim]

"I do regret that I was thus previously booked and couldn't..." help jla and MUD FReep Terry McAwful at his home in McLean, Virginny."

That's cool, FTH, things didn't go exactly as planned anyway, so we'll make sure we come by and pick you up afore we GIT THE PUNK next time!!

BTW...lookin' forward to splittin' that bottle of tequila with ya...MUD