Christmas and the Return of Mustafa

I received an unexpected phone call from a dear, long lost friend a couple nights ago.  Mustafa the squirrel gave me a jingle and needed a ride to the mall to get his Christmas shopping done.  Without  hesitation I agreed to pick him up, take him to the mall and spend some time with him.

I arrived at his home.

It was cleaned up a bit but I still mentioned to him that it might be time for storm windows.


He hopped in the car and requested we make one stop before we went to the mall.  Suspicious, I asked if it was on the way and he replied, "yep".

I mentioned to him that this technically wasn't on the way and if we could hurry this up a bit it would be much appreciated.  We arrived at his destination.  He put his coat and hat on and we entered the establishment.

We sat down ordered up a few winter lagers... four hours later we left.

I took him straight home and he started getting friendly with the neighbor.

We didn't go shopping and once again Mustafa played me for the fool.

Merry Christmas!

Winter Wonderland 2010

Ready or not here comes Winter! The above pictures were taken on 12/2/2010 during my journey from Tonawanda to East Aurora. The worst hit areas were Lancaster, Depew, West Seneca, South Buffalo. Not even a dusting of snow made it to Tonawanda. Along with hundreds of passangers stranded on the I90, I discovered Mustafa; also an unlucky soul who was trapped on the thruway. He was shivering and cold, but thankfully the Thruway Authority responded to him before any trapped drivers and rescued him. At last report he was found at a bar eating beer nuts and drinking on a Guinness.  I am so glad to hear he is safe and sound!