We received a box of late Christmas presents from Tim’s mother, who had warned us about the “aggressive” packing peanuts in the box. I must say I have never seen anything like that stuff – not only would it not shake off the presents and bows, it stuck to Tim’s hand and wouldn’t come off. When he did manage to remove some, it literally jumped back on his hand. There was no way we could even empty the box; we finally had to put it and all the predatory peanuts into a giant trash bag for the city to dispose of.

I jumped at the chance to use the new iPhone Tim got me for Christmas, thus this silly picture ;-).

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

Unlikely dinner on the Metropolitan Branch Trail, posted earlier: