It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas! And the Santa Painting Winner is......

 We were packing up to go home Sunday when Sherry came down on her tractor.....

....and the next thing I heard was Dean calling me out to look at his dad!
He was getting his first Tractor Driving Lesson and Dean knew I would not want to miss this!

He loved it!!

I'm thinking he may need a few more lessons before he's good to go on his own!!

It's always more fun to arrive than to depart......but we were on the road shortly after 2:30.

The camper and cabin were all clean and left ready for our return - in just two weeks!

We will come back for our December bee meeting.

We got home at 4:30 and I got right to work!

Started the laundry and dishwasher - I run a light load when we leave and then rewash it when we come back.

Then I started putting the Santa wall up.

It gets easier every year.

This time, I simply switched out paintings and used the same frames. 

A few places I had to turn the frame vertical and hang it a little higher.

I have more paintings than I do wall - so I will hang another Santa wall in the hall later this week.

Louis Dean and I ate huge baked potatoes for our supper and watched a Bull.

Covid messed up TV shows along with everything else.

It was nice seeing a current episode.

Louis Dean was tired and went to bed early while I stayed up and vacuumed and cleaned so I would be ready to start decorating this morning.

And decorating I DID!!!

All day long.

The den is pretty easy - I always use Christmas plaids and a Santa theme.

Lots of Santas.....

I just realized you can't see the new Santa painting down below the Red Santa and the cardinal.

I will need to fix that!

I haven't put the dozens and dozens of small Santa ornaments on this den tree yet.

I distinctly remember packing them in a Santa tin that popcorn came in. 

Have not seen that yet!

We got this wreath hung because I was able to climb up on the organ with Louis Dean holding on to me. The other mirror will require a taller ladder and we will do that tomorrow morning.

I love the way this secretary looks.

The candle top doesn't really go and I may move it someplace else.

All my journals, diaries and prayer books are on these shelves.

I've slowly had to replace the other books that were there as the journals have multiplied year by year.

I am loving the den! It took SIX Hallmark Christmas movies!!

Back to back.

I've never watched as many as I am this year.

The decorations are so beautiful and I love looking at the scenery.

I refuse to watch the news.

Louis Dean watches Fox Business for a few minutes in the morning and at closing bell to check on the stock market news. Other than that - it's Hallmark Christmas movies all the way!!

And now to announce the 2020 Santa Painting Giveaway......

out of 120 entries.....the random number generator was 58.......

And the winner is........Michele Meek-Frey!

I will have that in the mail as soon as it's dry enough to mail.