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Dec 17, 2006

Christmas time is here...

At last. This evening we had the Yogi Bear Christmas, Rudolph, Charlie Brown Christmas, Garfield Christmas, and now Flintstones Christmas. And we set up our village:
Complete with Paul Bunyan Santa and a very large guardian angel. Behind it (sorry about the flash glare) is a picture that Peter's brother Gary painted of a train at the station - that will hang on our dining room wall, as soon as we get the picture wire attached to the frame. Figure by Spring. :)



And then we set up our tree, and Sandy & Dan came over to help decorate it. Isn't it pretty?
We were able to use all the "special" ornaments from Peter's mom and my collection, and filled in with some plain coloured glass balls and a whack of glittery icicles from my mom. It looks great, I think, and really made a special evening. I feel Christmassy now. Which is good, because tomorrow I have to inventory the pantry and make up my grocery list for baking. Here's the list of "to-bake":
  1. Gingersnaps
  2. Egg Tarts
  3. Butter Tarts
  4. Mincemeat Tarts
  5. Suet pudding
The only really time-consuming ones are the gingersnaps and the suet pudding - tarts are easy. But I don't know what I need, so tomorrow I'm making my list and checking it twice. And then doing at least another 2 inches on my scarf. It's still mild but supposed to slip to minus two by Christmas Eve!

2 comments:

Tess said...

Wow, looks like another green Christmas for Ottawa. Very strange.

Your tree looks lovely :-) What do the cats do with it?

Kit said...

Mostly, they avoid it, although I did catch Squeeky "investigating" the presents yesterday. Luckily no ribbons and bows to tempt her, just flat wrapped parcels.

And the forecast for Christmas keeps changing - now they're saying -1 and sunny. We had a dusting of snow this morning but I don't think it's going to stick. The upside is, it makes for safer driving for visiting on Christmas Day!