Moving On to the Next Holiday

Yesterday morning we enjoyed catching up with friends at our Friday morning breakfast.  We have our calendars set for our Christmas shop field trip and our Lucia dinner.


On the way home we stopped at the Wild Birds Unlimited store for bird seed, and looked next door and a few doors down at Trader Joe's and Albertsons for mincemeat.  We struck out on the mincemeat.


I use mincemeat in my fruit cake, which I decided to make again this year. I had already looked at Safeway and QFC.  There was one more place to try - Fred Meyer.  Oh, oh.  I forgot about the socks at Fred Meyer.  Lots of people buying their half-off socks for the year.


Anyway, they had mincemeat!  With the brandy I picked up at the liquor store by Trader Joe's I'm set to make fruitcake on Sunday, when we expect the next rain storm.


But yesterday was beautiful!  So in the afternoon I got out to rake up the lawn.

Tom took the leaf blower to the roof to clean it off and then treat the moss.  And then he worked on Christmas lights.

I used the blower to clean up the patio and then finished raking the lawn.

Everything is nice and tidy now, at least until the next wind storm.
And we have lights on the house!

We will be meeting Jill and the kids at the airport later this morning as they make their way home from their Colorado Thanksgiving.  We have plans to discuss about places to go and do and see during the holiday season.  And secret shopping to plan too.  I have kids this year!


We're moving on to Christmas!  Let's have some fun!