The weather lately has been glorious... with a little morning fog tossed in to make sure we're paying attention. Our days are in the 60s and low 70s, and the night-time temperature drops into the 50s. We may even get down into the 40s later on this week, but still... so much better than watching the weather station to make sure those numbers don't get down to the freezing point. Been there, done that, don't want to do it again.
I raked up some of the pecan leaves this morning and tossed them behind the bushes near the back porch. Wonderful mulch, those leaves, and because of the position of that part of the porch, the wind isn't going to blow the leaves out onto the grass. In a couple of months, all those leaves will have become part of the ground again, as if I'd never raked them there in the first place. There are still more leaves to be raked up, but I will ask M to do those... he can pile them up into the flowerbeds around the house.
Sunday has become 'outside chore day' around here, being that M is not working at his job in town, and that's the day when he does work around the property here. My husband had him weed-whacking the tall grass around the pond yesterday, and then M put up the Christmas lights around the railing of our porch. When my husband bought some new boxes of outdoor lights last month, he bought extra boxes for M, thinking that he may want to use them to decorate his staircase and porch of the barn apartment.
This weekend is our Christmas party.... the weather is supposed to be very nice, sunny and warm for the rest of the week and not too cool at night... perfect party weather, in my opinion. I had planned to make hot wassail for the party, as I've done for every Christmas party we've had over the years. Seems that even in the warmer weather, everyone enjoys the wassail.... it just goes with Christmas, no matter what the temperature happens to be.
Just 17 more days till Christmas....
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