Our outside decorations....
As you can see, our large azalea is still blooming and leaves are still coming down.
Here's a night time view of the living room tree.
Christmas always brings lots of memories and good thoughts, even in a tough year like 2020. So here are some pictures of our decorating.
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| Dining Room |
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| Living Room Tree |
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| Our Original Elves |
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This is an "antique" Christmas card that my Mom sent out. (a loooooong time ago!) That little girl is me holding my first furry friend, the original Scooter Kitty. |
I have not taken any pictures of the outside decorations yet. Honestly, I am tired right now and going to go rest a while. But the decorating is done! Take care and stay safe. Life is wonderful, consider the alternative. God Bless America! |
Les and I frequently think of the same things at the same time. Most recently, about how much we enjoy "The Child", or as he is usually called, Baby Yoda.
Here are our two new Christmas decorations this year.
Stay safe, people! Life is still great! God Bless America!
Well, our safe, distanced Thanksgiving dinner is done. The leftovers are put away, the kitchen is cleaned up, the dishwasher is running. I missed having our family around, but I was with Les and that made it wonderful.
I figured I could handle hand-washing two of our Noritake plates that can't go in the dishwasher, so here is a picture of our table. That set of china is 52+ years old and we have almost every piece of the twelve place settings. Les bought it all when stationed in Thailand shortly after we were married. We don't use it very often, because, like I said, can't go in the dishwasher.
The Macy's parade was different. They did a good job with it all things considered. The best parts were the Rockettes dancing and Santa arriving. 🎅
I am taking a break now and sitting in front of the computer. Les is finishing his wine and watching some football. When I finish here, I'll start pulling the boxes of Christmas decorations out of the closet. Then he will get the trees put together so I can decorate over the next couple days.
I know some folks will be going out to shop tomorrow. Be careful! I won't be seeing you. The only place I plan to go is to Starbucks early in the morning. 😊
Take care and stay safe. Life is great. God Bless America!
Mr. Gnome has been distancing and staying safe. He cleaned up all the fallen leaves in his garden and finished his decorating. 🎄
He reminds us all to stay safe and take care of ourselves!
We've been getting some yard work done. The leaves are still falling down and piling up! I have been working on the mulched areas where I needed to do some pruning, cutting back, and cleaning up. And then I raked up the leaves from those areas. All the mulched areas are cleaned up for now except for the back corner one surrounded by the river rocks. Honestly, if I don't get to that area, I think I'll have the guys that we hire to clean out the rocks do the raking. It is covered with pine needles, cones, and leaves from our neighbors' trees.
I've been keeping up with things around the house and catching up on things I have not been able to do for a while. It helps to have my right hand getting stronger. 😊 My left one has not been as bad as my right, but still gets numb and tingly at times.
Tomorrow I will be doing a little food prep for our quiet Thanksgiving. And then I am looking forward to getting the trees and decorations out! 🎄🎅🎄 It will take me a couple days to get both trees decorated, but I do enjoy it. There are so many memories connected to most of our ornaments.
As far as Christmas preparations, our cards are ready to mail, shopping is done, and gifts are wrapped. What has to be shipped has been sent and delivered. We are continuing to stay in and take care of ourselves.
Covid cases continue to rise everywhere and it is upsetting that so many people just ignore the advice to mask up, distance, and stay home. Just because we hear on the news that vaccines are being approved does not mean that they will suddenly end this virus and everything will be wonderful. We would all like for that to be the case, but be honest with yourselves, it won't happen that way.
I hope everyone is well and staying safe.
Les and I are doing okay. We've had a couple days of colder weather and lots of wind. That brought lots of leaves blowing around. We had some frost last night. But yesterday was sunny and not as windy, although it was cool and in 50's.
We worked out in the yard. We now have a large pile of bagged leaves to put out for our next bulk pickup. There is still some more work to do in the mulched areas but I have to pace myself. There will be a little pruning in one area, then I will finish cleaning up that space.
I made it to the laundromat and got our large Anniversary quilt washed; brought it home to dry. And it is all ready to put back on the bed when the Christmas quilt gets put away in January.
I hope everyone is well and staying safe.
Les and I are doing okay. It turned into a rainy, cold week here. I have not checked our rain gauge but the reports said we got between four to six inches of rain. But today the sun is out and the wind is blowing, leaves are coming down all over, and the yard is drying out.
Our girls and families are doing okay; everyone is busy.
I've been doing some extra cleaning around the house. Yesterday Les helped me with the lights on the living room ceiling fan. The globes really needed to be washed. They are all shiny and bright now.
I just found out that "Christmas Chronicles 2" will be on Netflix starting November 25! Yay! The first one was very good.
Sirius XM has been playing Christmas music for a few weeks now. Starbucks has been using the Christmas cups for a week or so, too. Both make me smile. We all need more smiles.
My hand continues to improve and get stronger. I even did some mending this week! The stitches were not pretty, and definitely would not win any prizes, but the work got done as I was able to actually hold the needle! But I really don't want Pam to look at the things. 😊😊😊
My left hand gets tingly and a bit numb at times, but I don't have the severe pain on the left side like I had with the right one. So in a couple months, the left side will have surgery. Want to get the right one a little stronger first.
Covid cases are going up everywhere. Gov. Northam has issued some new restrictions that take place tonight.
Take care of yourselves and stay safe. Life is good! God Bless America!
I just had my post surgery check up. Dr. A says it looks good, keep using my hand and it will get stronger. It will take a while for the nerves to regenerate. No PT needed. Sutures were taken out. And after my right hand is stronger I should call and schedule the surgery for left side.
I hope everyone is doing well. I have been catching up on some things around the house and taking care of things.
We've had our quarterly pest control visit so that is done. Les just picked up our mower. It is old but still good, just needed some service. He just went out to tackle the leaves that are falling down so fast.
Our girls and families are doing okay; trying to stay safe and be careful, like us.
This is me after the surgery. I meant to post it sooner and didn't get it done. The furry boys were being very attentive and were helping Les take care of me. Right before Les took the picture, Finnigan was stretched out on my chest staring at me. This is Angus by my head providing soothing background purring sounds.
Take care and stay safe. Life is good. And God Bless America!
Angus did not personally get to vote, but he seems very interested in the news . . . . . . or lack of news. 😊
Stay safe and God Bless America!
I hope everyone is staying safe and doing well.
We have had some cold and rainy days here, but today is sunny and in the upper 60's. Les is playing golf. Tomorrow is supposed to be about the same and he will probably do yard work.
There are things in the yard I would like to be doing but I have to wait until my hand has more strength and recovers a bit more.
The Halloween decorations are all put away and the few Thanksgiving ones are out now.
I've been keeping up with things around here and doing what I can. Life is good!
Take care and stay safe! And God Bless America!
