The Year of the House

The Year of the House

We teetered back and forth on more renovations versus travel, staying here or moving to a different house. It’s not that we’re tiring of travel… never! But in the end after all the improvements we’d just made, we decided we like this house, but it desperately needed updating. Thus 2025 became ‘The Year of the House’. Since January, we’ve been doing house projects… big house projects.

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Decorating for the Holidays

Decorating for the Holidays

For me, Christmas is THE holiday for decorating which begs the question… When the ‘right’ time to decorate for Christmas? Some people leave up their holiday lights all year. In our neighborhood, inflatable Santas, animals and Christmas scenes have been adorning front yards for over a week. Lights are up and twinkling. Holiday parades are For us, however, the weekend after Thanksgiving is our traditional ‘put up the Christmas tree’, ‘decorate the house’ time.

What about you?

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