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How many of you are going to finish off the Thanksgiving left overs this weekend? Was your sister in law's squash casserole too soupy again this year? Were you amazed at how much your grandson ate on Thanksgiving? Eye witness accounts said he devoured 4 full plates full of mashed potatos and green bean casserole with those little fried onions on top and he's not quite 2 years old. Did your lazy cousin show up? You know the cousin that is so lazy he married a pregnant woman so he could have kids. Did your great uncle on your mother's side of the family return grace and said the blessing for a full 15 minutes? My grandmother's sage cornbread dressing had the shelf life of plutonium and was used to insulate the attic. NASA wanted to use my grandmother's recipe for heat shields on Apollo space capsules. Christmas is just a few weeks away and New Year's Eve is a shade over a month away. I am looking forward to bringing the girls to Tallapoosa for our first Possum Drop. I understand it draws people from as far away as Buncombe, Steadman and East Muscadine. For a few years I got to warm up the crowd and emcee the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta. The first time was New Year's Eve of 1985 and it was on a flat bed truck at Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta and it was not a big crowd. As a matter of fact my high school graduation class was bigger. The class of '69 at dear old Tally High had less than 50 graduates. The revelers were winos or folks from out of town in Atlanta for the Peach Bowl when it was held at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. It was a cold raw night with a drizzle just a couple of degrees away from being sleet or snow. The event finally got traction in the 1990's and is an event that now draws a couple of hundred thousand. I also got to do the Peach Drop in 2007 emceeing and introducing music acts. The group Lady Antebellum made their Atlanta debut and are now major players on Music Row in Nashville. The trio is two guys from Augusta and the daughter of Linda Davis who has been a backup singer for Reba McEntire for decades. When do you being decorating for Christmas? When does the tinsel and garland go on your tree? The last live Christmas tree I ever had was from Haralson County and it was the last live tree ever because it drank more than Hat Roberts, water that is. You got to keep them from drying out. My next door neighbor in Marietta is from St. Petersburg, Russia and only got to celebrate holidays when he and his family came to America. He left his live tree up too long and his house caught fire and burned it to the ground. That was the last year I had a live tree. I wish there was a scent you could buy and spray that smells like a real sure enought North Carolina fir. Another question about decorating is when do you risk life and limb hanging icesicle lights on the outside of the house? Is is poor form to put an inflatable Santa riding a Harley in the yard before the first week of December? When is it proper to buy a Claxton Fruit Cake for a door stop during the holidays? Who invented egg nog and why?