Merry Christmas

Well, Christmas is over. It was a really nice Christmas this year though. Having Kit here was really fun. She's not really aware of what this is all about yet but she's enjoying all the attention anyway.
We've had a very white Christmas this year and though I know many have enjoyed it, I for one will be happy when all the snow is gone! I long for a California Christmas where we took out our old cars for the Christmas parade and enjoyed half way decent weather during December.




At this point, we've had about two feet of snow dumped on us out here in Duvall. That's way more than I ever expected to get here in the Puget Sound. This is more like the winters I used to experience in Ohio and they're the reason I never returned to Ohio!!!

Good news though. The weather reports say that the temperature will be warming up and we'll be getting plenty of rain. That will melt the snow and produce flooding!!!

It's Christmastime!

Well, winter has arrived in Duvall in a big way!  We had four to five inches of snow Saturday night and most of it is still on the ground!   The photo at the left is what our back yard looked like this afternoon.

I left town briefly today to run some errands and found that once I was over the hill into Redmond there was pretty much no snow.  I guess we're just lucky over here in Duvall.

After much back and forth, we decided to go with an artificial tree this year.   We picked up one of those new fangled pre-lit trees from Home Depot.  It  went up really easy and all that was left was to put on the decorations.  I think I kind of like this pre-lit concept.

While we were at Home Depot we also picked up the cute little Mickey and Minnie Mouse figures that are all decked out for Christmas.   After Christmas we'll remove the santa hat from Minnie and Carole will make a new dress for her so we can use her at car shows with Minnie the Metropolitan.

Against my better judgement, I decided to put up a few outdoor lights this year.  Mostly because the Xmas tree has white lights and I thought it would look better if we put some colored lights on the outside to help set it off.   Now the house just looks like it needs a lot more lights.   Sigh....

Carole took care of setting up the nativity out in the front yard and plugged in the lights that are in our trees out by the road.    Not a very good photo, but you get the idea.    

So, except for wrapping all the presents, things are pretty much ready for Kit's arrival on Sunday.