Happy Black Friday

It was a really nice day yesterday.  I should have gotten up early and drove to Swallow Falls and then attended Thanksgiving Dinner at the home of my friends Mandy & Frank in Frostburg, Maryland, but I was lazy and just went to dinner.  I enjoyed some really good food and some very nice company and conversation at the meal.  I really liked the sweet potato casserole which had pineapple in it.  It was a cool change for me.  Mandy made some really tasty green beans too.  Yum!  It was pretty late and cold by the time I finished chatting with Mandy and her dad, but I drove west and got a couple pictures of the stars.  Sadly, there were a few clouds and the pictures didn't turn out as great as I would have liked, but I did capture A LOT of stars in my picture.  It's difficult to believe that there are so many out there when you look at this.  I mean, I can only see a tiny fraction of these at my house here in town.  Blast all this light pollution!

Can you see the Milky Way on the left side?

I got back to Hagerstown about 12:30 or so.  I have been looking for a new wallet for quite a while now and I love Fossil wallets.  Up until now, their wallets never had zippers enclosing the outer edges.  I don't trust a wallet that's open to dropping cards or money or whatever.  Now, however, Fossil finally has some of these kinds of wallets.  They opened at 10pm, I think for pre-Black Friday, so I drove to the Outlets.  I got a decent parking spot and found a wallet that I really like.  I saved $15 there.  Then, I have been wanting more deep bowls from Correlle.  I got 2 for the price of less than one at their sale.  Score!  I got a few other items online, but didn't go hog wild.  It would be nice to be able to buy anything I want now and then.  Maybe some day.