An annual activity

Uh oh! 

It is that time of the year again!

This will be the third year!

Just as dawn started to brighten the steel grey skies, concussions of gunshots rang out. Welcome to opening day of the gun deer season.

By 10am Charlie was a wet noodle of jiggling jello and anxiety. He wouldn't even let hubby go to the bathroom alone. He sat under Rich's chair in the eating area while I put away all of the stuff I'd been working on.

The mules were not bothered by the gunshots. They've been around for many hunting seasons and they just picked up their heads and glanced around then went back to eating their hay. They are up close to the house during the gun season.

I put all of my current projects away after shooting some more photos. I didn't want to put the crystal forest away, but it was time to do our annual project.

A not so nice Wizard!!!

Wanda feeds her pet dragon....

....and after lunch, we started....

I purchased this set during the summer when I saw it on discount. I thought it would be perfect for the 9 day gun season. 

Rich still gives me a bit of grief over TOYS, but as you can see, he really gets into sorting things. 

He even puts the minifigs together and anything else he can figure out. This is a huge challenge as he has essential tremors that sometimes  interfere with his eating. 

But he works at it. He delights in separating the Lego pieces by color and then separating those pieces by type.

His doctors love the fact that he gets engrossed in these projects. They feel that it helps his small motor skills, makes him think and use his brain, and it amuses him. Sometimes he studies the book to try and figure out how things go together. 

In short, he IS engaged in an activity.

I once asked the doctors if they could prescribe Legos. They laughed and said they wished they could. So each year, I try to find a project we can do together when the days are darkest for him. 

With every noise on Saturday, poor Charlie got so rattled. Eventually, he had to get in on the action by sitting on my lap while I was trying to put things together.

I usually start the Christmas Chair project right after Thanksgiving Day. But this year I'm going to wait to decorate. That 'spirit' has not struck me at all. I've already seen enough 'Christmas commercials' to make me grumpy.

Instead, we are going to take it one day at a time and enjoy this big project.