Lesson 880: Gingerbread

 Happy New Year, Readers!

2025 is entering 

as a snowy one for 

the Great Lakes Region!

Santa is heading back to the North Pole.

This is what I picture he looks like in the off season--

trades his red suit for a blue one.

As Santa retires to the North Pole,

so does Eloise to her living room.

I do love the winter.

Unpopular opinion, I know.

But there is beauty in nature's dormancy.

We are home tonight--

a rare thing for a Friday night.

We made a slippery trip

to Meadville

for a basketball game last night.

I caught this score

partway through the JV game--

the JV's won.

And that's the only score I will be sharing 

for the rest of the night.

Maybe the guys were just out-fanned.

Here was their student section:

Here was ours:

A long trip

plus

slippery roads

do not make for a positive equation

for teen travel.

Also,

they had a player that scored his 1,000th point in the game.

Again.

The same thing happened last year.

Congrats to this young man!

Impressive accomplishment.

I compiled my 2024 Year in Review blog

on Tuesday.

Here it is if you missed it:

Lesson 879

CLICK HERE

I have lots more to write about:

New Year's Resolutions

Word of the Year

and the passing of Jimmy Carter.

But I'm preoccupied with something else

and my mind can't give adequate blogspace

to those things I hold dear

until I solve a mystery.

What happened to my gingerbread man?

I discovered he was missing on New Year's Day

approximately 6:00 pm.

After an urgent notice posted to my facebook account,

I now have more questions than answers

after the spotlight was put on this case.

A prank?

A run in with a wild animal?

A theft?

But what is the motive?
Jealousy.

Greed.

A kidnapping?
Certainly I would have received a ransom note by now.

I checked on Gingerbread girl this morning.

I thought for a second that she, too, had been stolen.

But she was there--

just not doing well.

She threw herself off of the porch,

but I revived her and convinced my metal friend

that he was worth waiting for.

I worked on my theft theory

and have created a short list of suspects.

Then I went to work.

I put the Questies on it.

My brainiacs had theories similar 

to the adults on facebook.

They were firm believers in the fact that he came to life

and ran away all on his own.

Run, run, as fast as you can--

you can't catch me,

I'm the gingerbread man, I am!

If Donald Trump can be my President twice,

I'm not ruling anything out.

Any leads you have on the Gingerbread case,

please message the Lamp Post.

There is a reward for his return.

Eloise