Tuesday is Today....

 The temperatures are dropping as is par for winter weather. The clouds in the morning sky are casting reflections from the sun making a great pink color. 

Some more ornaments were added but more are yet to come. I don't have the shot for the complete tree but it is done now being decorated. 

Our oldest son turns 49 years this day. Having three kids and a busy job he probably won't get to celebrate much. His birthday card is on its way but the reliable mail service wasn't yesterday. They didn't pick up the mail until about six o"clock in the evening. lHe knows he is getting a card so it will just be a day late. 

One last tree has been assembled. It is the one I put up so the lights in the front window can be seen from the outside. I did tell my wife that next year she gets the tree I assembled now for her angel tree next year as she is running out of room on her tree. I have bubble lights to put on this tree as well as antique larger glass blown ornaments. I won't get to that until tomorrow.

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Sunny Day....

 The corner of the sun room gives us an extra special effect of two more trees when view at night. The tree show is in the lights only stage as it took a half day assembling of the tree. I then took another hour or more to put on all the lights. 

 

. We started putting on ornaments this morning. We still have two boxes of ornaments yet to put on the tree. We do it in stages as the collection of things that go onto the tree is large. In the daytime we  had sunshine outside as we put up the Christmas balls. 

A living room shot shows that things are in progress. Geese that haven't been placed in the room and batteries are needed to get the lights to shine. It looks like I just chose to drink coffee and ignore the tasks at hand. 

There seems to be so much that we do but we like to decorate. I have one more tree that may or may not go up for this season. The room that it use to be displayed in has had a furniture arrangement change. I will have to do some problem solving to get it done. I did not display it last year. 

The warm weather is great to have. I can see we won't stay warm for long but it is nice to have it. I heard someone out there in the neighborhood was mowing their yard. Winter really is here and the days keep getting shorter. Thanks for checking in today.

Friday.....End of the Week.

 

My wife's tree is up now. The angel tree is full of ornaments that have been collected to the theme.  Lots of figurines and angel dolls are also a part of the collection. 

 

 

The glow of shiny angels both metallic and white make it a showy tree. The first tree of angels was a small one but the collection did grow for the need of a six foot tree. 

While digging through the boxes of things I found my Snoopy figure. He is a cute bell ringer with race track flag ears. I don't understand that design treatment but he is stiill a fun little guy to have sitting on the shelf. 

 Our main tree is yet to be assembled. I brought up the stand and pole today and the boxes of branches are also in the sun room ready for me to move. It seems that I have started later than usual but I should have that tree up tomorrow. 

We warmed up to 40 degrees F. today. It is still cold but it seems warm after the past cold days. Thanks for checking in today.

 

Teddy Bear Tree....

 

 

 The teddy bear tree was originally kept just bears. My wife's tree evolved into a stuffed animal tree as you can see there are more than just bears on it now. My wife is not a Ty collector and I don't quite know why the tag is still on that one stuffed item. I bet I  can cut it off now the photo has been taken.

I put out my lawn ornament reindeer today. It was extremely cold out there but once put in place it is done. I got the lights all working so I can't wait to see them in the dark. We are working on getting the angel tree set up and there are a lot of items that sit around that tree.  I do have the boxes carried up but not much has been done yet. Thanks for stopping by today.

Middle of the Week....

 

It is a year od proving that gingerbread is a good material to use for building. The grandkids and my wife and I got to do this last  year during their visit. 

Our son and his wife from Maine sent us a Christmas wreath. It is made up of fresh greens and smells so great. There are tiny lights on the thing but I have to find some batteries to get them going. We keep it on the sun room door so it last years lasted for months before it dries out. The star fish are a great way to decorate them. The company is from Maine so thr real starfish are from the ocean. 

I set up my wife's tree for angels and she has started the task to cover the tree with angel themed ornaments.  I moved things around in the living room to find room for it in the living room corner.

The plants got moved out of the way and placed under the Capernaum photo. They don't look bad there but they will be in low light for a month. The Capernaum view is from the ancient city in Israel and is overlooking the Sea of Galilee. 

We are having a very windy day today. It is noisy and sounds like trucks going by the house continually. I had to remove my dead battery from my Buick this morning and go buy a new one. I got to take the truck out on the road and blow off its dust. I had to go on youtube to figure out how to get things taken apart and then put back together.  It isn't as easy as it use to be as they design the battery with covers to avoid any spark explosions between the positive and negative posts. The battery just barely fits into the plastic case and I at first thought I had the wrong new battery.  With a lot of wiggling a very heavy object it did finally slip into its space.  The car started turning on lights and the radio when I put the final negative connection to the post.  It is a good thing I didn't have to call a tow truck and have someone else do it. I didn['t mention that I have some new aches and pains now.

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Winter Wonder World.....

 It is our very first measurable snow fall. The day didn't warm up but the sidewalks did clear themselves somewhat. It is still very cold out there and we have to adjust to that now.

The hard freeze eliminated the red from the burning bush leaves. It turned out to be a nice orange color instead of red. 

I brought up the stuffed animal tree this afternoon and my wife has started to place the different characters onto the tree.  Putting up a tree every few days makes it actually fun to do. The angel tree will be the next one to be assembled. 

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December 2nd.......

 

 

 

 

I think I am going to add something red to the wreathe.   I like it but it needs one bright spot somewhere. The maid is a milking womant as a tree ornament. The snowman really has a crooked nose. I think that the assembly line worker was making a quick swipe with the brush to put that carrot nose on him.  Our one grandson worked really hard to get his marvel character put together. It had so many small pieces. He has a pretty mean face.  I am going to bring up another tree for decoration today. It will take a couple of days to get the ornaments on it but it is cold outside and time for Christmas to appear in our house. 

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