This week presented us with a perfect opportunity to make some fashionable and safety improvements. Two months ago, heavy rains found their way through the Master Suite balcony then down onto and into the front atrium ceiling, leaving us with significant water stains.
Just a quickie to show Alexis and Khristyanna during our blessed UNDECORATING effort which you can imagine is actually more daunting than the decorating!
With the insane proliferation and year-round breeding habits of the javalinas, this recent January passerby is a welcomed addition.
We were graced with a full dining room of 14 blessed guests for both Xmas Eve and Xmas Day with well-received menus both nights. The occasions were nothing short of intimately divine, fun, and delicious.
The Capt. and I celebrated our Samhain ‘bone fire’ a bit belatedly this year so we conjured up a combo meal deal of Solstice AND Samhain ending and beginning – yay! Many bones of 2025 to set aside and leave behind as we move into longer, brighter days and a spurt of outgrowth.
Okay, we are adorned and ready for all the holiday festivities. Rhum balls and our not-so-secret cookies are on the dance card for making this week. Come for a visit and hunker down in our comfort blankie of nurture, peace, relaxation, and healing. We are ready . . . with cookies and rhum balls and so much more.
We were a small and intimate group of 2025 gobblers who enjoyed a casual, eclectic, and NONtraditional celebration din din. The Capt., Carol and I whipped together all the good eats and left the gobbling to our guests.
We have been soooooooooooooo stinking spoiled by Katie and Mike at Painless Stitches redoing virtually ALL outside furniture that we had to ask for Round #2 on behalf of the dining room chair seat cushions.
The gang was all HERE and we made pretty snappy work of regaling TSH for another Forevermore holiday season. Our Donna from Livermore had the inspiration for the new element to the 2025 season with the introduction of battalions and legions of angels that seemed to have surrounded us all in profusion this year.
Recently our angels were really looking out for us in the Reunited Resurrected garden when we were alerted to smoke streaming out of the back retaining wall ivy – yipes! The Jerome Fire Dept arrived in a flash and although there were no flames the smoke was significant.
