Tomorrow is the last day of the month. There are only 25 days, nine hours and 15 minutes till Christmas as I write this! I’m sure you wanted to know that, lol :)
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with much to be thankful for. Our thanksgiving was a little cold and cloudy but at least three of us got to spend thanksgiving together even if it was a restaurant dinner and not home-cooked. Not surprisingly, my dad did not come with us, making excuses at the last minute. He does not enjoy eating out anymore and prefers to stay close to home. Change in routine upsets him-these are all aspects of dementia.
In NH it was a different story, the same pre-Thanksgiving storm that gave the south shore of Boston rain and slush, dumped 10 inches of heavy, wet snow on the southern part of the state and created a widespread power outage, Thursday. I guess it was lucky that I wasn’t hosting a large crowd like last Thanksgiving. What do you do with a partially cooked 18 lb turkey when there’s no power?
I was scheduled to work Friday but after calling to confirm that my house was part of the outage and that power wasn’t expected to be restored till Monday, I decided to come home Friday morning, it was a good thing I did too, because I had accidentally turned the furnace off the previous weekend . The good news is that we got our power on last night ahead of schedule.
One casualty of the storm was my beloved Sargeant’s crabapple that was split in two by the ice laden snow. It survived many storms including the ice storm of 2008.
Monograms really seem to be a big decorating trend this year and I’ve seen several Christmas wreaths on Pinterest that I liked. I decided that I would revamp my berry wreath that I’ve had for eons. I purchased a 7 1/2” letter “G” at Michaels and a can of red spray paint. Applied several coats and then brushed on a coat of Mod Podge and sprinkled it with red micro-glitter. Changed the bow from red-velvet to red & white check ribbon and I love how it looks. Decided to hang it on the porch wall adjacent to the door because live greens would dry out too quickly on the closed in porch.
This berry wreath has served me well. Some of the paper-mache berries crack, but it’s a quick touch up with nail polish.
Well, I’m off to the attic to pull down some more decorations. Have a good weekend!
Gail :)
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