After 2 days of fog, icy drizzle and snow, we woke to this beauty yesterday morning.
All of this shot from my patio
The trees are especially nice as after all that ice, the soft, diamond dust looking fluffy snow was just laying gently on each and every branch
Every little movement of air would sift some of the snow off the branches so it was like walking about inside a snowglobe -- very cool indeed!
And indoors the tree in the living room is up and the teddy bears have taken up residence under it.
Usually there are a number of other things under the tree too, but since I'm not unpacking all 926 (ok, 35) boxes of Christmas stuff this year, the bears will probably hang out by themselves this year.
Yesterday we rearranged the furniture in the family room and put up the tree there. We got as far as lights on the tree before we both decided we had done enough physical work for the day.
I admit it was nice to not feel guilty about turning on the lights on the tree -- we converted to LED lights in the family room this year, and I strongly suspect from everything I've read about them that they will pay for themselves in electric bill savings THIS YEAR. The other very cool thing about them is they do not get hot. When I turned them off at 10 pm they had been on for about 6 hours and they were still as cool to the touch as they were when we took them out of the box. Yes sir, I can tell you that pretty much all of our other lights will be switched out to these (just not all at once).
And so today is the day for laundry and sorting out of the rest of the stuff I took out of the family room....ordinary stuff....its a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it (oh to have a cleaning service!!)
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