I realize everyone is probably very busy with Christmas preparations. Or maybe you’re in that place where everything is done and you can relax for a couple of days. I am working again today – it was impossible to fit everyone in yesterday – so another day of coaching awaits. I forget how much energy it takes to communicate everything you want a person to learn in one hour. And zoom is not the best way in which to communicate. But, it is what it is. The actors are very nice and it’s a pleasure to work with them.
Ever since Monday, we’ve been watching a Christmas movie every night. I work around what we need to see on TCM’s schedule and fill in the rest from other streaming sources. So, Monday was White Christmas (Netflix). Tuesday – A Christmas Carol (the Alastair Sim version which is the only version for us – we watched it on YouTube.) Wednesday – Remember the Night (Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. TCM) Thursday – Meet Me in St. Louis which was on TCM.
Tonight will be The Bishop’s Wife (TCM), tomorrow, The Shop Around the Corner (TCM,) and on Christmas Eve, It’s a Wonderful Life (either Amazon Prime or Netflix.) We don’t really have any connection with contemporary Christmas-themed movies or animated movies. This “Christmas Movie Week” is one of our traditions and it’s a true highlight of the season for Don and me.
We’d already seen Christmas in Connecticut, A Holiday Affair, and a few others before the official “Week” began.
Another Santa by Vintage by Crystal.
And some very old celluloid reindeer I picked up in an antique shop many years ago.
It’s very cold right now – the temperature went down to 17 degrees overnight. I’m pretty sure the remaining potted plants on the porch have now died, so I’ll move those pots into the shed over the weekend. I have to say that the calibrachoa really hung in there until a day or so ago. Bravo!
Christmas is almost upon us!
Stay safe.
Happy Friday.