Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Deck the Hall and all that Jazz

It really is true, that I prefer  decorating  and baking for Christmas to getting gifts.  Today it begins...usually with putting up the outdoor lights, uhhh it's a bit cold for that, perhaps just wreaths in the window, or candoliers.  I have a slue of them, elegant, even impactful, especially if you team them with a smallish spray of evergreen and nice bow, I have bows that that were made about 20 years ago and still look like new, so OK the one that the cat attacked does look, well beat up.  There is just something warm about candoliers!   Mine are mostly from yard sales, all slightly different, which I like.   Flame bulbs are my favorite, and what I always look for at the after Christmas sales.  Which now usually start before Christmas, I would like to think because seeing leftover decorations after Christmas is sad, somehow I don't think that is the reason though.  Perhaps it is to insure that there are a few leftovers a possible.

  I do solemnly swear, I want to and  will find a whole bunch of these little flame style light bulbs on  sale, some day!!! 

 A big question  for me has always been "Where will I ever find the time to decorate the way I want to?" but the answer is really simple, "I won't, no one can except may-be Martha and she has a staff to help her.  But I take great pleasure in it anyway.    I should be decorating now, I can easily, dress several trees, because I have several artificial trees,most of them small.  Almost all of them were given to me, and that is I the how and why of that.  Some years I find a good home for an orphaned tree...and I feel good....realllllly good.  

Over time I have been gifted and inherited a room full of ornaments, each one retells it's story as I hang it on the tree.   Sweet and bittersweet memories blend.....{Pardon me.....gotta get one of the dark chocolate Santas I just bought} and if the snow is gently

falling well then it is the perfect scene.  

And that brings me to cookies and other goodies, but I leave those up to others....usually.  My guess is that, it has something to do with all the goodies made the first  Christmas in my own house and how much food got wasted....just my guess and my error.

,And then there are cards... now on to brighter subjects, except for when I am in the mood to make my owncard, and I am careful never to send them to people who don't realize that making a card from recycled cards is a labor of LOVE.

Bah Humbug,,,, Sayith Ebeneezer!!! scratch them off the list and run over their Christmas coal with a steam roller.

This is turning into, a good and bad of it list!!! Or is that more like a commentary on the reality when plans don't go as planned and it takes a sense of humor to get thru,  and or a TON of creativity, and a bushel of patience , and a snow shovel full of inspiration. some  One wonders why one looks forward to this season? 



 





 

Haiku~~~~~

  above the horizon the full moon, and rising sun   weatherman said rain