Thank you, Pru, for sharing this shelf with the littles. It must be trying at times.

But they do look awfully cute together!

It’s Monday. We had high winds again all day yesterday and it’s still windy this morning. I AM OVER IT. I don’t quite get why this is happening, but Mother Nature? Cut it out!

On Sunday, I worked on the puzzle for quite a while. I get obsessed. It’s coming along nicely. Saturday was the day to finally remove our window A/C units. I have a new place in which to store the kitchen unit, which is quite large; so large that we can’t find a storage bin for it. So I cleared out some space on the floor of the closet in the den, and just managed to eke out enough space for the vacuum cleaner. Much better. We don’t have to haul it out to the shed. The bedroom unit does have its own bin, so storing it out in the shed is fine.

I also dropped off more book donations for our library. I periodically go through my shelves and pull books that I no longer need or want. The library has a book sale every year and I feel good about donating to it. Sometimes, I’ll find a book I just donated on the shelves of the library. That makes me happy, as well!

New pajamas, leaning against the kitchen sink.

Beautiful Zoe.

I have one message for Agent Orange: Tick-tock, tick-tock. It’s just a matter of time. The best Christmas present ever will be your removal from office. The hideous cheap faux gold ornaments will be removed. The ballroom will never be built. The East Wing will be restored. The Resolute Desk, which belongs in the Oval Office, will be taken from Mar-a-lago, and returned to the White House. Every room will be smudged with sage. The mall-food-court-cement-patio you installed instead of the Rose Garden? Gone. A professional team will be brought in to make sure there is no evidence left you ever lived there. Forensic accountants will track ALL the money you have stolen and you will lose EVERYTHING.

There’s more, but that’s enough for now.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

This will be brief because I don’t have a lot to say today!

Thanks so much for all your comments yesterday. I promise to respond to them this morning. Yesterday was rather busy and I didn’t have the time to reply.

I’ve had this geranium for years. I keep it on the porch during spring and summer and move it to the living room over the winter. But, it actually does better indoors. Within a week of bringing it back inside it bloomed. So, my sweet little geranium, you are now an official indoor plant. (It took me way too long to figure this out!)

I’ve started on my puzzle. I took a big break from working on puzzles; not deliberately, but because I was busy doing other things. But, because of that break, I realize how much I missed the calm I feel when I’m solving a puzzle – jigsaw or crossword, by the way. I’ll be working on it later this morning.

Side note from yesterday: I was deliberately doing something silly yesterday and Don said “I have the weirdest wife!”

This was a compliment, by the way.  There is a definite strain of weird in my personality.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

Because I’m tucked into my chair covered by a throw – and I’m feeling lazy – today’s photos are taken from my sitting position. “Corners of the den that I can see from my chair.”

To my left, pointing up.

To my right. (You’ve seen this view before.)

Well, it’s Friday. Things are heating up in the House. Emails, files…I sense the beginning of the end. That’s all I’ll say for now because I’ve learned that predicting the timing of anything that has to do with that piece of ___ is impossible. But you’d better believe I’m reading those emails.

I did end up ordering a jigsaw puzzle and it arrived yesterday. I haven’t unboxed it yet, but it’s another by Lawrence King – The Romantics. I’m really looking forward to hauling out the big wooden board (stored upstairs) and opening that box.

Let’s talk Christmas Trees. If you celebrate, when do you usually put yours up? Is it real or artificial? Is it tall or tabletop? White or Green (or any other color)?

My answers. We have opted for a real tree again and we always get ours from our local nursery. And we always choose a Noble Fir because we (well really, I) like the strength of the branches. I also put up at least one tabletop tree in white. One Christmas we only used a large white tabletop tree and passed on a real tree. But that was because Don was going to be working in California on Christmas, so simpler seemed better. We visit our local nursery during the first week of December and that’s when we get the tree. We keep it up as long as possible, sometimes into the second week of January.

That little white tree that sat on the table next to my chair last year is going to be the first decoration. Maybe the weekend of my birthday?

I would love a vintage feather tree to keep up all year round. I’d decorate it with seasonal ornaments.

Let me know your traditions, my friends.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.