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Well! We’ve had our Christmas dinner and another meal of leftovers. Delicious. Christmas day was lovely and very low key. We have decided that we miss opening a present on  Christmas! We’ll do it differently next year. I made french toast for breakfast and we took a lovely walk in the afternoon – during one of the few periods where the sun was shining. Yesterday was gray and dismal. Today is gray and it’s raining. And no snow in sight.

This was the scene under the Christmas tree:

And there they stayed for most of the day. Big congratulations to Chloe for managing to sit securely on that stool all day long, even with both of us treading on the floorboards throughout the day.

I hope all of you enjoyed the holiday, if you celebrate. I hope that you felt some level of peace, if only for one day. We did and I’m very grateful.

As it happens, we watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” on Christmas Eve, “Meet John Doe” on Tuesday night, and “It Happened One Night” last night. A Frank Capra triple feature. It wasn’t planned, but I can’t imagine a better way to spend an evening. I think I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again. Frank Capra is my favorite film director. He’s Don’s, as well.

I’m reading the newest Michael Connelly. After two months of waiting in the queue, it arrived just before Christmas. I’m also working on another puzzle – The World of Hercule Poirot.

And, that my friends, is all I have to share. We’re fairly low key this week, as are, I suspect, many of you.

I just read that the date on NYE will be 12-31-23 or 123123. Pretty neat!

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

Merry Christmas

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Two days until Christmas. I’m finished coaching for the time being. Now, Don and I will rest and enjoy listening to Christmas music and keeping our traditions as we welcome Christmas. It will be quiet here, which is kind of the way we like it. Peace – that’s what we want for ourselves and everyone. And for the world.

Chloe and Ella are enjoying their first Christmas here at the cottage. Shockingly, there were five new girls this year! Yikes. No more for the time being. I don’t have the money or the room. A few of them came to me as opportunities I couldn’t pass up – dream dolls made by my favorite customizers. These two are examples of that; someone put one up for adoption and I knew I would lose out if I didn’t jump at the chance. Same with Miranda, the red-haired beauty. But now I have to toughen up, stay strong, and be grateful for what I have. And I am.

A long afternoon of undressing dolls, adding sweaters, removing them, and redressing them in their original clothes resulted in this. It’s not the best, but I hope you like it.

Don, the girls, and I wish you a Merry Christmas, my friends.

I hope your Christmas is all you wish it to be.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your visits to this little place on the internet. You are wonderful friends and I treasure you.

I’ll take Monday off, so the next post will be on Wednesday.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

And stay safe.

 

 

Three Days and Counting

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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.

 

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