We have also arrived at the worst time of year for me, taking the Christmas decorations down and packing it all away. I hate it! DH is going to help tonight and tomorrow and I will get our home clean and tidy and also catch up on all the washing and ironing which has been breeding in the laundry room!
DH decided that action was needed. When Coco was a puppy we did not want her up in the garden as there were too many places she could hide, so we restricted her to the patio with the pots. Well as she grew older she worked out how to get around them via the garden! So now she is a big, grown up Doggy our bench has had to be used to stop her up the steps and the pots on the wall. So far it is working!!!!!!
RIP David Soul 1943 – 2024
Sad news today for all of us who were young in 1975 (I was eleven), David Soul has passed away. Starsky & Hutch was the first TV series, certainly on British TV, which was exciting and different to anything we had and I loved it. I had posters on my wall, although I hate to say it I liked Paul Michael Glaser more (!) and all the other stuff. Funnily enough my Boys like the show too and of course had models of the car!
As well as trying to get a lot done tomorrow, I have an appointment at the Hospital as well! DH is also setting up the sound equipment for Sunday for the Swimming Open. We will be getting there at 6.00am and won’t get back until about 8.00pm, a long day! Hopefully it will not be a sauna this year unlike last, where we could hardly breathe! Next week I will be back to work properly hopefully and the shingles will be firmly in the rear view mirror!
I hope you lovely lot have a wonderful weekend, the first of the New Year, and you get some time to do some reading or anything else you want to do.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
A final few pictures of Christmas before we take it all down until eleven months time! Mind you the way the weeks and months fly by it will soon be here!!!
It is always so fun to put up the decorations for Christmas and seems to go so fast. Taking them down takes forever and leaves the house looking sad and drab. This was always the dragging time of the year when my kids were in school and when I was teaching…one three-day weekend to look forward to until spring/Easter break in the spring. Daylight seemed to be fleeting and darkness oppressed the spirit. This time of year I always wanted to live on an tropical island (as an adult) where warm and sunshine dominated!! As a kid, I did love winter because I went skiing every weekend, but that stopped in my last year of high school when my brother was killed in an avalanche skiing. Days may drag, but months fly by…I keep telling myself that!
Your home looked so pretty for Christmas and it is sad to take it all down and pack it all away. Mine has been down for a week or so and I truly miss the cheerful lights. We’ve had way too much rain this year too and there are “ponds” everywhere where there shouldn’t be ponds. The weather peeps are telling us snow today! We are ready!