More decorating

 Last Saturday I finally got around to putting decorations on the tree in the living room. Here it is all finished. Definitely not a professional job but it's good enough

This tree is an eclectic collection of decorations ranging from store bought to handmade. There's also the ones that came from friends.

Lots of ones that were hand painted by me a lot of years ago when those plaster craft kits were all the rage.

Handmade ones that look like they are quilted.

A handmade one that came from a blog friend a lot of years ago

A gift from my niece one year. Sadly, she is no longer with us.

December Happy Mail card.

 I went kind of easy this time around. I found a picture I liked and printed it out. I mounted it on red cardstock then attached it to the front of the card. Then I decided it needed some glitter. I used glue and a paintbrush to add it to certain parts of the picture then sprinkled on the glitter.

Tuesday Dec 2

 It wasn't a pleasant morning. I got up and we had gotten snow over night. It was still snowing. Then I got on Facebook and read that someone posted how bad the roads were.

I went out to start the car, clean it off and shovel the driveway a bit.

I got about 3/4 of the driveway done and just couldn't do any more. This old body just can't take it like I could in the past.

I pulled out of the driveway and headed to work. Normally my drive there is about a half hour. I was only about half way to work and the half hour had already passed. I couldn't take it any more. I pulled into a parking lot, texted the girl at work and told her I was turning around and going back home.

When I made it back home, I finished shoveling the driveway and then went inside. I ended up sleeping til 12:30 and when I woke up it was sunshiney and the road was clear. Had I just pushed on I would have been fine. I spent the day on the couch watching Hallmark Christmas movies instead.

Trees in the cave.

 The first two trees to be decorated were the ones in the Ann cave. If you recall I added a second one last year when I bought the pencil tree. I probably should just do one but I can't help myself.

First up is the pencil tree that is a snowman theme. I still need to get a tree skirt for the bottom

The other is the wildlife themed tree that I've been doing for years now.

The village

 The village is all set up for another year. I don't know if I'm completely happy with the set up but it'll stay that way. I still haven't gotten things plugged in so it can light up and I'm not even sure if I'll bother with that this year. I don't spend all that much time in the living room anyway and I don't think I plugged it in all that often last year.

I'm thinking that I should probably stop adding more buildings  because I really don't have the space to make this any larger than it already is. maybe in the future I'll just add some small accessories.

Drawings year 2 week 26

 Here we are at a year and a half of drawings every day.

Gassing up

 I've been traveling in to Ohio to get gas. It's been quite a savings. I checked my app and it said that the current price was $2.43. That means that after my .10 cents off it would only be $2.33 per gallon.

On my way out of town the local gas/convenience store said $3.39 but on my way back home they had lowered it to $3.16

Still a pretty big savings and well worth the drive. We had gotten a couple inches of snow the night before but the roads were all clear so the ride was no problem

A busy weekend.

 While some people were busy doing their black Friday shopping, I was at work. Thankfully the bad weather that I stressed about didn't happen. I left extra early on Friday morning and the roads were totally clear. Needless to say I was super early.

Saturday morning started off slow and easy like any other day off. Then it was off to Walmart to pick up a prescription and grab some groceries. I got there before the pharmacy opened and was the first one in line.

Then I came home and started in on laundry, moving furniture around to make room for the Christmas tree in the living room, and setting up the trees. I have a total of 4 plus a couple super small ones here and there. No

For dinner I decided to try out a sandwich that I had seen somewhere. It has stuffing, turkey, gravy and cranberry sauce. It was pretty tasty.

Sunday I made the trip to Ohio to get gas and then did some more decorating. More to come on that.

Thanksgiving a little late.

 I took me long enough to blog about Thanksgiving day. That's what happens when you've got a bunch of posts scheduled ahead of time.

I woke up Thanksgiving day to snow. It was no surprise as there was a lake effect storm predicted. The forecast was saying 8-20 inches possible. Needless to say I was stressing over my drive to work the next day.

Amanda came over early and was in the kitchen cooking up a storm while I lounged on the couch watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. 

The highlight of the parade is always the arrival of Santa

The food was delicious and I ate way too much.

Gibbs had a little taste of dessert and ended up with it on his nose.

My son in law brought me a scratch off lottery ticket and I won $20

All in all a very nice day. 

Lookie lookie

 I've got a cookie

Amanda and I recently stopped at Subway for lunch after we had gone to a craft show.

And to be honest, I actually got 2 cookies.

Looking good

 I came home from work on Thursday Nov 20th and even though it was dark I could see that they had done some additional landscaping at the doctors office/pharmacy behind me.

Those small evergreen trees that they planted go all the way across my back yard. They'll make a good natural fence if they get bigger. 

They took down the chain link fence too so I was able to get a better picture of the big drainage system they put in

And of course I couldn't resist a closer pic of some of the trees.

Drawings year 2 week 25