it’s beginning to look a lot like

 Christmas. Sort of, anyway.We put our lights up last weekend. All those big, old fashioned lights, on the house. We added some new ones – little- ( which I removed from the shiny tree that I got last year ) to the little boat in the yard and a few along the fence.   I [...]

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Seattle bound

 In a little while we’re off to Seattle. We’re going in a day early to go to the Bellevue Botanical gardens Christmas light display. We’ll spend the night at Mom’s, and this way we will be in town tomorrow when Lauri and Aidan leave. It’s been a fun week, and unfortunately I didn’t get any [...]

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the workshop

For the past week, I’ve been planning, cutting out, and sewing my way to Christmas.  It feels good to spend time at my sewing machine. I’ve been known to get most everyone the ‘same’ gift – but a different flavor of it for each recipient. One year it was ‘warm things’ each person got either pajamas that [...]

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Happy

Richard surprised me by coming home after just a few hours of work today. It was raining, which generally shuts all things construction down here anyway. Adding today to the holiday makes it a five day weekend for him.  So, I’m not sure what we will do with the time off – he said that he would [...]

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