Today’s primary task was to take down the Christmas decorations. Our yard waste pickup is Monday, so we wanted to get the tree to the curb.
The picture captures a good percentage of the decorations from this year. There was a creche and some other bits and pieces around elsewhere.
Carl is showing off one of his presents, originally gifted by Mariner Mike Blowers to the craftsman who built a staircase for him. It was handed on by a fellow blogger. It’s a heavy bat.
The Christmas decorations all survived our basement flood because they had been brought upstairs. We did lose some Halloween stuff, but that was all much less important.
Most importantly, Carl’s mother’s ornaments were not harmed. That would have been hard to accept.
And we did get through the decision phase on our collection of cassette tapes. One or two have been retained, with the rest destined for a recycling firm, and potentially a few to a used record store in our neighborhood.
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January 4, 2026 at 5:42 pm |
I love the photo of Carl with the bat; I thought it was quite heavy too! I still have my snow globes out since they’re more winter themed than Xmas. Are we actually going to have a winter though or just an extended fall?
January 4, 2026 at 6:55 pm |
I think I have caused the extended fall. I got Carl some new boots and gloves for shoveling, and found his snowpants as part of the basement clean up. So he obviously won’t need them.