It's Done

It took two days. Monday was boxing day. All of the decorations came down and were packed away. The tree was undercoated, all of the ornaments stored in their tubs, and the tree was dismantled and put back in its storage box.  All of the tubs were put back in the attic. Tom and I worked together, of course. 

By Monday evening things were looking very bare. 

 Tuesday morning we cleaned. Then I began to replace the Santa collection with the pottery collection

 and all of Tom's pop-up book collection is back on the shelves. 

In the kitchen the Christmas garlands are gone and I hung up my collection of antique advertising utensils. 

It's a very dismal day, dark, with steady light rain and 40°, a good day to be working inside. 

 The outdoor lights are still up, but now that the frost on the roof is gone, Tom will just need a break in the rain to get them down and stowed away. 

After all of that was done, and since going for a walk was not a very attractive idea, I did ten miles on the stationary bike, while I finished a book on my Kindle. 

Now the soup base is done for pozole for tonight's dinner, and tomorrow night's as well. Good comfort food for a dreary January day. 

All is good.