I'm cold. That wind seems to be finding its way into every hole and crack in my old house this morning. I just turned the thermostat up again. brrrr. Need to go out and fill the bird feeders as soon as I do the dishes. I have yesterday's, last night's, and this morning's dishes to do. Thankfully, there's only me here so that doesn't make too many, mostly cereal and soup bowls, and silverware.

I just got back. I had to get on the horse from the back of the pick up truck. LOL! A short ride, but I'll probably still be sore tomorrow. Several of my friends are afraid to ride since they have gotten up in years. I have a friend who is a pretty big gal and her horse spooked and tossed her on her fannie. She still has horses, but She said She will never ride again. It was a perfect day. Now, I'm looking forward to making Turkey Tetrazzi tonight. I sent Main Man to the store for some ingredients. Gayle

I started baking Christmas cut-out cookies this morning at 10:30am., made the dough yesterday so all I had to do was take it from the fridge and roll it out and start with the cookie cutters. Think I got at least 3doz. baked, and tomorrow I will put the frosting on and then mail 2doz.of them to a friend on Monday. While they baked, I watched TCM movie channel (A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen is on now), just came in from hanging the wreath on the old schoolhouse door and thinking about taking the dog for a walk. But, it's still a bit chilly out there at 33 degrees despite all the sunshine;so I'll have to think awhile about that. Hung the other wreath on the front door, an all plastic made-to-look-like boxwood wreath that I've had for years and is so sentimental. Every Christmas I find bits missing or laying at the bottom of the storage bag. It's frayed gold foil ribbon and half- glittered decorations stuck into one side of it never get replaced. I did take a quick trip around the garden to see what's going on and really need to put the leaf mulch down soon. The ground is frozen, but tonight I think we are suppose to get rain and sleet. The bird bath looks like a mini skating rink.

I've still been wondering about this and decided to search for the terms and read them carefully. You can find the Member Agreement without going through the membership process. Here are a couple of things I found that will keep me from joining. "Nextdoor may offer similar accounts to businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. These accounts do not have access to neighborhood discussions or to messages between neighbor members. You can make choices about receiving messages from organizations at (link omitted). Nextdoor provides organizational members with some aggregated statistics about neighborhood activity and size." AKA unwanted advertising. "Preferences. By default, we subscribe you to messages both for your neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods. You can customize your neighborhood subscriptions at (link omitted)." What I don't like about this is that other neighborhoods will be subscribed to MY neighborhood, and after seeing the huge area assigned to my neighborhood, I can only imagine the number of people then subscribed. Might as well just put the whole town in and be done with it. "Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor (collectively, your “Content”). You give us permission, in the form of a nonexclusive worldwide license, to use, copy, and publish your Content as described in our privacy policy." So I own the rights to my photos but nextdoor.com can do anything they want with those photos, including publishing them as their own. No thanks. From the included Privacy Policy: "Verification as a Resident Of Your Neighborhood. Nextdoor requires members to verify their status as real-world residential neighbors.....by...(1) having a neighbor who already has a verified account....confirm your address, (2) (2) submitting your name and street address (and email address....and then providing us (or a third-party service provider directly) with additional authenticating information....such as a unique code....(or)....we may allow you to use a credit card number or the last four digits of your social security number. .... To help with verification, we may share or confirm your verification information with our service providers. ... We may retain your verification-related information for a reasonable period of time (further down it says 'as long as necessary') even if you do not complete all verification steps." "Facebook Connect. If you register for Nextdoor using your Facebook account, we automatically request your email address and publicly available information, including your account ID, name and gender as well as public information about your Facebook friends. If you revisit Nextdoor while logged into Facebook, we’ll automatically log you into your Nextdoor account. If you don’t register for Nextdoor using Facebook but later attempt to log into Nextdoor using your Facebook credentials, we’ll connect your Facebook and Nextdoor accounts and request the information from Facebook as if you were newly registering. ... If you register or log in via Facebook, we may give you the option to invite your Facebook friends to Nextdoor. Those friends will see some information about you along with your invitation." Great. So every friend, even those I really don't know, on my Facebook page will see my neighborhood if not my exact address. There is a lot about collecting information and sharing it with 3rd parties, their expanding corporate family, and even google. This maybe the scariest part of their privacy policy: "Export of Data (Non-U.S. Residents). By using the Services, you authorize Nextdoor to use your information in the United States and other countries where Nextdoor operates. Please be aware that the privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your personal information in some of these countries may not be equivalent to those in your country."