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Day 29 - What friend/family member are you grateful for today?
I've already answered how I'm grateful for His Lordship, so today I'm going with my mom. She's been on my mind recently. You know, the last 8+ years have been really, really hard. But prior to that she was pretty cool. She taught me to cook, to clean (hey, it's a skill), to sew, to crochet, to try new crafts. She also taught me how to NOT to do things, which is also something we need to learn. So yeah, I'm grateful for mom.
It's a gloomy, grey day out today. It's a tad bit warmer...might get up to the 40's today. No snow forecast until next week, but I'm very okay with that. His Lordship is planning to put up the Christmas lights today; the new Christmas lights!
Back in the day, when we lived in AZ, we had a flat roofed house and we strung the lights around and it looked like frosting. When we moved here, we went to color light bulbs; those big ones that I remember from childhood. Well, the last few years all we (and by we I mean His Lordship as I don't do roofs - that's a big bowl of nopeflakes) managed was a string of snowflake lights on the porch. Kinda sadly festive. I've always wanted to do permanent rope lights under the eaves. This way you don't have to take them down; you can turn them on on Halloween or 4th of July or whatever. I told His Lordship this was THE year! I always get my way - eventually. Heh.
These lights will turn color (I really didn't care about that but he did) so who knows what color they will be on any given night. How fun for the neighborhood! Beats painting your house babycrap brown with dark green trim and a bright blue mailbox. That's what is painted across the street. Yuck.
I might start wrapping presents and doing odds and ends. We shall see as the day progresses.
Smooch!
I've already answered how I'm grateful for His Lordship, so today I'm going with my mom. She's been on my mind recently. You know, the last 8+ years have been really, really hard. But prior to that she was pretty cool. She taught me to cook, to clean (hey, it's a skill), to sew, to crochet, to try new crafts. She also taught me how to NOT to do things, which is also something we need to learn. So yeah, I'm grateful for mom.
It's a gloomy, grey day out today. It's a tad bit warmer...might get up to the 40's today. No snow forecast until next week, but I'm very okay with that. His Lordship is planning to put up the Christmas lights today; the new Christmas lights!
Back in the day, when we lived in AZ, we had a flat roofed house and we strung the lights around and it looked like frosting. When we moved here, we went to color light bulbs; those big ones that I remember from childhood. Well, the last few years all we (and by we I mean His Lordship as I don't do roofs - that's a big bowl of nopeflakes) managed was a string of snowflake lights on the porch. Kinda sadly festive. I've always wanted to do permanent rope lights under the eaves. This way you don't have to take them down; you can turn them on on Halloween or 4th of July or whatever. I told His Lordship this was THE year! I always get my way - eventually. Heh.
These lights will turn color (I really didn't care about that but he did) so who knows what color they will be on any given night. How fun for the neighborhood! Beats painting your house babycrap brown with dark green trim and a bright blue mailbox. That's what is painted across the street. Yuck.
I might start wrapping presents and doing odds and ends. We shall see as the day progresses.
Smooch!
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