Oh my, a new post!

I ordered this desk from Office Depot on Monday and it was delivered on Wednesday. Doug put it together (about 3 hours Wed night and about an hour tonight). So, here is a little picture story. I still have lots of moving in and organizing where this desk is concerned. It has 3 file drawers, which should be plenty and a big top with lots of room to spread out. I can get my mess off the kitchen counter and that's a good thing!
We're off to Bellingham tomorrow to celebrate the imminent arrival of Cleo or Leo by helping Andy and Sarah with some gettting ready for the baby projects.












I can't resist posting this picture from Christmas -just a pile of Lewises.

Christmas trimming

Lydia and David went to the Yuletide concert with us last night and helped us trim our tree today. We also made some Christmas goodies! A very nice day, indeed. Now, if we just had the shopping done!

So peaceful

It's been snowing for a little over 2 hours now. We're busily storing up water in the tub and I've filled a couple of gallon jugs. Doug has gone to home depot to see about some kind of propane heater. So, you know the power is not going out! Danny is waiting to be picked up over at Magic Hill. He did a bunch of mailing list updates for Magi Strings today. Anyway, I put on my favorite Christmas CD and belted out a few carols and thought about how much I love all of you. Oh, and Doug's bringing me a peppermint mocha!

Christmas Lights

When I came home this evening this is what Doug was doing


and here's how it looks so far. He plans to do a little refnining I guess, in the light of day.

Here's a brief synopsis of our Thanksgiving weekend. Made the cranberry sauce on Wednesday evening and got around to the turkey soup last night.

Theo loves household tools and is so delighted when he find one.

This turned out to be a huge production!

There is still a lot of putting away and organizing to do in our new house, and of course, it seems like the owners are going to be back any day now and we'll have to move out - but we're very comfortable here and it was so great to have a houseful of dear folks here on Thanksgiving. We need to have a little open house soon so local friends can drop by. Completely informal I think. I'll probably just invite people by email or something. I'm thinking next Sat. afternoon, or maybe the following. Of course, it depends on which weekend I might be able to entice the Kennewickians to come.

Hello

I would post a picture of the turkey soup simmering on the stove, but the computer won't display my pictures right now. So, maybe later.

getting there

There are guys here this morning to install the concrete blocks under the edge of the house, known is "block skirting".
I took a picture of these trees a couple of weeks ago in a parking lot that I frequently sit in. I'd like some of these in our newly denuded front yard.