February Weekend.....

 I've been taking Christmas down slowly and it was finally time to do the den.

The cats have loved the lights, garlands and all the decorations.

The baby grand has been one of their favorite hangouts - they love to snuggle down behind the rows of Santas I had up there, Now slowly but surely all their hidey holes have disappeared and they have to hide in plain sight now.

Do you have 'Mom's ears?' I developed that keen sense of hearing when my children were young and I still have it. Most likely it's been kept in tune by Louis Dean and all his antics!

I was in the bathroom Saturday afternoon putting on some make up - and I could hear a hum. 

No one had flushed a commode so I wasn't sure what it oould be. I stepped outside in the back yard and listened for running water. Nothing. But I could still hear that faint 'hhhhhhmmmmm.' when I went back in the bathroom.

I called Louis Dean in to listen but he couldn't hear a thing.

But he found the water when he went out on the side kitchen deck.

The pipe had busted all the way from uder the deck up to the faucet!

He turned the water off - after I hurried and fill up some containers - and fixed it.

I am so very grateful he knows how to fix things!

Back when I was doing eHarmony, that was one of the 10 'Must Haves!'

I do love my Handy Man!!!

We left the water off overnight - just to be sure - and I was so impressed that as soon as Louis Dean woke up this morning - he went out and turned it nack on. Even before he had coffee!!

I have Christmas all packed away now and added three more tubs after I took these photos!

Campo Verde is leaving all their Christmas decorations up until April!

I never made it during the hoildays but there's still time....

All the house is clean except for the den and I will fine tune that this week.

Santa wall is still up and that will be switched out, too.

The guest room has been cleaned and disinfected and everything sprayed with Microban!

Candle is lit to celebrate CLEAN!

We celebrated our Sunday night with Louis Dean's good spaghetti, my garlic bread and a nice bottle of red wine! Summer coming in from Arkansas just made it perfect!!

She's been doing some volunteer work at The Bar J Guest Ranch in El Dorado.

A perfect ending to this February weekend!!

The cold and ice kept the possums under the deck for a couple of days!

The snow had no tracks on it for a day or two and then they started showing up.

I put out some lettuce and celery one day and they scarfed it right up.

Yesterday I baked a huge butternut squash - baked whole in the oven and then sliced it and scooped out the squash - leaving the seeds and skin and some of the squash for the possums.

I love feeding the birds and back yard critters!!