a little more sparkle for the season...
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Auctions pickup day
Just back from another drive to Denver area to pick up auction wins. I am going to have to stop looking at that site... Or maybe only once a month, or something... once the ones I'm currently following finish... Today it was for a pretty little antique brooch/pendant with a piece of malachite set in silver filigree, and a double-sided makeup mirror which was larger and heavier than I expected. That was one pickup location. The other was a couple of framed Carmen posters--the opera, not... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Sunny, windy, icy Christmas!
Plans change... Yesterday the lunch array was so loaded with tasty things, we actually had no time or room for the great dinner we'd planned. So we told everyone, Come by tomorrow afternoon and we'll do the Christmas feast on Christmas after all! And everyone thought that would be a great idea! Around sometime AM, the wind came up, and it brought new cold to freeze the damp of yesterday's and last night's warmer temps into a sheet of ice: When I went out the front door, the wind yanked the door... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Christmas Eve
The sky is beginning to go light... When I woke at 5:30, there was a deep blue sky with a bright crescent moon high in the southwest. A sight like that, of simple, sweet, sublime beauty makes waking early worth any longing to sleep until 7 or 9. Today we feast. I just have to make the feast, first. One feature will be canned peach and apricot and pear halves sprinkled with a bit of nutmeg or cinnamon or cloves, dabbed with a bit of butter, and broiled for a few minutes to brown them just a bit.... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 23, 2016
Promises and expectations
I said that the decorations would be put up overnight by elves. Which is to say, Charlie said he'd do the deed during the night while I slept. I went to bed like a kid waiting for Santa; for once, I wanted to let other hands take on this happy task not so I didn't have to, but for the sake of waking to a surprise of loveliness and Christmas magic. Well, I slept poorly, and left the door ajar so Embers could come and go at will. I was up again at 2, and read a while, turned out the lights...... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Traditions adjusted
We used to do the big Christmas Feast on Christmas Day but a few years ago, I realized that if we did all that cooking and preparing and all on Christmas Eve, we'd have those fine leftovers all the next day, and be free to simply enjoy the day. So now that's what we do. I remember breaking the turkey tradition the first time. I didn't want a second turkey a month after Thanksgiving, so considered options. It's amazing how anxiety-producing changing a family tradition can be! I was actually... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
One of those days...
It started with winning an online auction and needing to pick up my items ~70 miles away by 3pm. We, for once, got out of the house at the planned time to get there by 1, got in the big truck and made it two blocks before stalling out right as we started into the intersection. For about 30 minutes--the time it took to find out my AAA really had lapsed last summer, and that the benefit I got about 3 weeks ago had gone on the account of someone with the same name, and that they needed $201 to... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Today I bought a ham
The grocery store we go to mainly used to bring out this most delicious spiral-sliced ham for the biggest holidays, and I bought many pounds of it, but not all at once. This year for reasons unknown and beyond understanding, they have decided not to put it in the deli: you can only buy a whole one. Previously, looking into that, I found that none were under $50. But today I found one just over $30 which is just right for a Christmas Eve Feast that will feature turkey as well. We will be maybe... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Adventuring out...
We had a show to go to today: A CHRISTMAS CAROL adapted for the stage at TheaterWorks, the show for which Charlie spent three days building a plucked turkey. But the snow... It isn't that it is so much or so deep overall, but it came with wind and very low temps, so it was very drifty, and the kind of powder skiers dream of. We should have left earlier, considering... It was a challenge to get the large black truck out of the driveway and into the actual position to drive down the street. I had... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 16, 2016
High Winds Warning...
Literally... by which I mean, literally, literally. We are having gusts along the eastern slopes of the Front Range up to 80mph; 30, 40 gusting in town, up to 65mph expected. It is 60 F outside, though the cold end of the day was -1, and is predicted to be -1 tomorrow night, as well. I think this explains the wind. Because it's warm, I let Embers have access to the deck for a time, but she declined. Likely, had she gone out there for long, she'd now be over at the neighboring building. When I... Sign in to see full entry.