Saturday, November 23, 2024

Pecans and Decorating for Christmas - Still at it!

 Bruno came on Tuesday afternoon and trimmed our pecan trees!


The harvest is all but done and it was time to cut off some dangerous limbs.
He did such a great job!


Louis Dean continues his pecan 'peeling' day after day.


It's turned somewhat chilly lately so he is shelling in THE only room in the house that he's allowed!


Finally the foyer is done!


One night it was 4:00 in the morning when Louis Dean finally went to bed and he slet until 2:00 in the afternoon! I didn't want to wake him up so I slipped on my robe and houseshoes and took my first cup of coffee outside. I laughed outloud when I looked down!


Friday I was tweaking the foyer - again!


This light is so pretty!


I continued the angel theme and used a lot of gold.


I'm loving this tree!


This was a thrift find and Louis Dean loves it!


It's taking me longer than usual as I am deep cleaning and purging as I go.


Gone is the bulky stereo - that only played some CDs SOME of the time and the radio FM quit working.
Today I ordered a new small scale system that got good reviews. One guy said he bought it for his elderly parents and it was easy for them to use! Win! WIN!!! That will work for me!

My current room 'under construction' is the living room.
My stereo arrives tomorrow and I will start playing my Christmas CDs.
The tree is up and lit and partially decorated.
Still need to get the Santa  wall up and more to be done but I am trying hard to finish it by the end of the day tomorrow. That would put me with 6 areas decorated and 6 left to go!

It's been a quiet cozy week here with chilly mornings and lots of Christmas movies.
I'm on the 'H's' in my Christmas cards and will be  mailing out the first batch on Monday.

I'll do the random number generator on Monday morning and plan to go to the post office for stamps and to mail the Santas.

My goal is to be decorated for Christmas by December First - freeing me up to enjoy the season's baking and cooking and a little bit of entertaining.
I'm letting go of some traditions - as in making sugarplums - and parting with over 12 tubs of decorations. I'm giving them to Summer to decorate the cabins at Bar-J ranch. It feels good.

There's now 31 days to Christmas!
I pray you will enjoy each and every one.

Jesus is the reason for the season -
let's us not lose sight of Him in all that we do.




6 comments:

Ginny Hartzler said...

Your tree is gorgeous!!!!

photowannabe said...

Such a beautiful tree and all of your decor is stunning.
That man of yours is something else..Peeling Pecans for all he's worth..wow.
Good for you to purge while decorating. Giving things to Summer is a fabulous idea.
Sue

Pamela M. Steiner said...

Everything is so beautiful! Once you are finished you need to have an open house so people can come and enjoy the beauty of it all! I wish I could just fly right out and see it and YOU too! Poor LD< his fingers must be raw by now from shelling so many pecans! I don't know how he does it! He's amazing. Love seeing all you are doing. Such beauty to behold!!

Anonymous said...

Hi Linda, all your trees are so beautiful. Loving all the festivities. I'm taking a break from FB and am deciding whether I will go back or not. But at least I get to see what your up too via your blog. I wish you were nearer to me as I would love to see your house in all it's glory. Take care. And my goodness LD is so special. Cracking nuts is no easy job.........Bless his heart. ~ Carol Talbot Smith

Kathy said...

Love your house. It is so pretty. You are so far ahead of me in your decorating. I am holding on to autumn as long as I can. It is such a great idea to donate things to Summer. I am donating a lot of things to Goodwill these days as I go through the boxes that were packed when we moved. It does feel good to get rid of things we no longer want or need.

Debby said...

Wow if I didn’t know better I’d think you are Mrs Claus. Everything looks so nice. I bet it’s gorgeous in person.