THINKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS

I've been thinking about Christmas and pulling the decorations from my little 2' x 4' lean to shed. I keep them packed in plastic crates which stack. I pulled out a couple of boxes earlier this week that contain the few pieces of Dept. 56 Christmas Village that I still own. I'm not sure how I actually got it to Florida when I came here but I managed to keep about 6 pieces for which I am grateful. I have had most of it for nearly 20 years now. I finally got those 2 boxes unpacked and set up last night in my garden room on the hutch. Today I returned the boxes to storage and pulled out some more things. I filled a beautiful crystal bowl with some lights and artifical fruit and decorated a tiny tree that I have which is about 24" tall. The rest of the decorating will wait until after Thanksgiving when I put away my fall decorations. It was a productive day and I found things that I had forgotten I have. That makes it feel like Xmas when I find unexpected things.

Tonight I watched my favorite British sitcoms which I have been watching for years and years and which never fail yet to entertain me and make me laugh. There is a new one on now called The Vicar of Dibley, about a young female vicar, which was filmed last year. It is quite cute and full of British humor. I guess that you can tell that my Saturday nights are pretty tame which is really a good thing since I have to arise so early on Sunday to be at church at 7:30 a.m. That means "lights out" for me pretty soon.