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...It's raining. I'm home from work. I have two days off, starting tomorrow. Then I don't have any days off for...a while. Some folks are already starting to stress. The trick to this job is to enter into the Let's Shop! mindset with the customer and kinda close your eyes to the whole potlatch thing. Mostly easy to do; the large portion of our customers being easy going and willing to be amused. Then there are the adults who explain to you (at volume) that their child's Life!Will!Be!Blighted unless this certain item which sold out weeks ago is produced for them on the instant. Sheesh.
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kinzel picked the stained glass dragon up from the glass studio today. The wings now have matching vanes (couldn't match the glass, so they put leading over the crack, then made a matchint "vane" on the other wing). My next project is to find a Heavy Duty Ceiling Hook. I'm thinking molly, here...
How's the beginning of the Season going for y'all?
kinzel picked the stained glass dragon up from the glass studio today. The wings now have matching vanes (couldn't match the glass, so they put leading over the crack, then made a matchint "vane" on the other wing). My next project is to find a Heavy Duty Ceiling Hook. I'm thinking molly, here...How's the beginning of the Season going for y'all?
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Sleet storm in Kansas -- the roads are a mess and people are either being careful or sitting in ditches.
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Season?
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Well, when I get to the point that I can even consider a season, I'll let you know! In fact I'll probably be calling you (or your cousin) sometime. But for now, it'll have to wait until after the 8th, at least. I'm in the middle of crisis, have 'way too much to do to in the next week, if I'm ever going to finish school and get my teaching certificate.
On the positive side, we actually got the outside lights up last weekend, which is good, because now there is snow, ice and cold weather. I really prefer desert for December.
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I haven't done much seasonal as of yet, aside from practicing renaissance and traditional christmas music with my choir. We're working on new pieces in english, spanish, french and german (only two of which I speak at all). At the moment I've got "Fum fum fum" running repeatedly through my head.
This weekend I plan to buy a wreath (real) for the front door and some greens to make arrangements in the pot on my front porch and in a hanging basket, both of which currently contain dead annuals. Living alone (aside from the parrots) and not really having space to entertain, I find I do more seasonal decorating outside than I do in.
Fortunately my current front door is under an overhang on the north side of the house where the sun never shines, so wreaths keep quite well even between the regular and storm doors. In one previous house we had a south facing front door painted dark brown. My mother hung a wreath in the space between and it baked quite rapidly in the resulting solar panel, even melting some of the plastic decorations she'd stuck in on picks. Not a pretty picture at all.
I do have a poinsettia, which I've just had to move, since it's already dropped a few flowers and brachts and I've only had it since Saturday. Unfortunately, my living room gets no direct sunlight at all, so it's been relocated to the bedroom where it will hopefully be happier near an east facing window.
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Well to say it was raining when I got home would be understatement. Raining still but by tomorrow it is supposed to turn to snow and then ....snow for a few days. Much more in keeping with the season than the 60 degree days we've been having.
Was planning to get wreath and such this weekend. Love the smell! No tree inside however. My Maine Coons seem to be skillful tippers of trees but not very graceful climbers. In the past I have resorted to suspending it from the ceiling and wiring to walls but think NOT this year.
"Molly"
(Anonymous) 2006-11-30 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)Flosdottir
The Season
(Anonymous) 2006-12-01 03:15 am (UTC)(link)Kelly
Temple City, CA
The real wreath is up --
I haven't put it up in years, between going to AZ for the holidays and simple exhaustion. But I have more time this year (no clients interrupting, except the occasional web person) and am contemplating tree-age. I collect unusual things to hang from the tree.
Have purchased copious amounts of pecans, almonds and a bag of walnuts for the walnut folk (me, and one other) for making the best sweet spiced nuts in the world(TM).
(Okay, no trademark, but they really are good. I've astonished people who have gone through dozens of recipes and weren't happy with the results. That good.)
Glad to know the dragon flies. I have a simple hanger maybe a foot across that a cat tried to total while jumping at a moth. But it has multiple breaks -- not sure it can be fixed, or is worth fixing. But it did look nice in the octagonal window, in the house I built in 1991. The huge spiderweb used to be the oval inset of my mahogany front door, until thieves tried to tunnel in through it. It held them off, but was too scarred for the neighborhood. So I got another stained glass windowed mahogany door.