At 6:00 am it's a chilly -5' heading for a sunny high of -2 later on. What a strange few days of weather we've had. Monday it started snowing in the morning and by the time we left to go home it was freezing rain. Needless to say the roads were a little slick. Then it changed to rain and rose to 12' overnight. No a speck of snow on Tuesday morning and mild temperatures. Then Tuesday it stayed mild most of the day but did cool off a bit in the afternoon but it was still hovering around 5'. It's a little hard to determine these days just how to dress when you leave in the morning.
Monday night I baked a couple of batches of cookies to add to the freezer. They need to be kept frozen so some people don't eat them all! It's can hardly be called Christmas baking if it's all gone before Christmas gets here. Lloyd took advantage of the nice weather on Tuesday and put up the Christmas lights outside. It was looking ever so festive when I got home. Unfortunately he's come down with a bad cold so is feeling a little under the weather. So being as he went to bed early last night, Brenda came over and we finished off a bottle of Dubonnet that was hanging around in her cupboard. There was just enough left for two drinks. We had a couple of laughs over silly things and watched a program I had taped from the BBC called Victorian Farm Christmas. It's an interesting program about three modern day people who are sent to live in the country on a farm in the same way the Victorian's did. They had spent a year there previously but then returned to modern life. Now a year later, they are returning once again, several months before Christmas, to prepare for a Victorian Christmas feast. I'm going to save it for the kids to watch because it's taking place sometime after the War of 1812, which James is quite intrigued with. It will be interesting for him to see how farmers at that time lived. Check out this link for more information on the program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Farm
I still have boxes of Christmas decorations sitting in a heap in the living room that need sorting. I think I'll make that my priority tonight. Then we'll be ready to decorate the tree when we get back. One week from today, if all goes as planned, I should be on a plane heading for Toronto. In a perfect world, Patti, who is flying the night before, will arrive in Toronto around the same time I get there and we can drive home together.
Yesterday I agreed to sew a Christmas stocking for someone at work.It's fairly intricate and Brenda thinks I'm slightly mad for taking on yet another project but as Patti and I texted yesterday, sometimes we are our own worst enemies, as she struggles with designing and implementing the costumes for "Beauty and The Beast". I'm sure they will be great, as usual. They haven't done this production before so it's the first time for these particular costumes. On previous shows, they were doing it for the second or third time so had some previous efforts to work from - what worked and what didn't and what needs changing. This time she's starting from scratch so it's quite a challenge. But I know she'll do a great job and everyone will be thrilled with them. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures.
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