Blogmas???

VLOGMAS

Blogmas???

 Is that a thing? Like VLOGMAS? But blogs? Hmmmm… 

IMA DAY LATE THEN!!! lol

Anyway…

Scenes of Christmas past…

I was thinking of sorting through some decorations yesterday to start the festive month off… BUT

We had quite the storm the night before…

Lil concrete bunny 

Heavy but tossed to the ground!

I had to put the wreath the right way around… 

Where’s the pic of the wrong way tho…? 

Maybe the wind blew it down the other end of the blog…?

Flipped pot.

Tossed pot.

Had to move the bike

The bike that no one wants

Who has a twin 

Living in our cellar…

Oh the carnage!

Nature placed.

Holy Hell!

How much of this can I take!

Here it is!

You know what they say about 

A wreath facing the wrong way…

Log holder cover

Gone walkies.

Another pot done.

Two new leaning trees 

For me to chop on!

Do you see 

Twig trellis and arborvitae 

Reaching for each other 

In their moments of distress!

Don’t blow that ikea lantern!

It’s been in the family since 2016!

The lounge chair had it coming.

Always lazing about.

Spiffed.

Right as rain…

Maybe this lil one needs accompaniment?

Across the street there were several leaner trees 

All caught up in the trees next to them…

See!

The men with the biggest chainsaws came out in service!

To cut the smallest of trees, that could have killed somebody 

As they drove down the street.

Luckily no one was hurt…

And the crew that had just come through the week before to preemptively trim the dead standing just feet from these

Murder weapons…

 I guess maybe they weren’t wearing their glasses that day.

Right.

Lol

Funny but not.

Sorry 

But 

Not.

Oh well.

That’s all fodder for the whatever right…???

Let’s end on a Xmas note. 

Omg, Charli Girl from 2014!!!

No grey in her muzzle…

Ack! So cute.

Kk, so I’m rushing off to get some Christmas in our decor.

Deck the halls and presents for pretty girls, etc…

May your fire burn bright my friends!

x~J

Ps~ VLOGMAS has begun on my channel d’Youtube.

Christmas is Coming!!! 2022!!!

 

The plan is to  B E    F E S T I V E  !!!!!!!!!!

I am much more of a Solstice Celebration person myself…

Yuletide and all that… BUT! I will take my festive days where I can dammit! Lol! 

The outdoor color changing spotlights are out, as well as the bulbs inside… it’s hard to stick with one scheme… every night a different shade then… sure, why not. No rules, just fun. And our blue spots shining up into the flanking trees, with the café light golden glow… now do we put the energy into putting the light up deer out… they are needing a fix up… glow up…? Makeover…? Could we make them look fancier…??? 

Charli Girl gets her stitches out today!!! So excited for her! And after her pain issues from last week… I took some time yesterday and built her an extension platform from our old fairy bench. Worried that a regular dog ramp might not go over well with her… one is on order, it folds and works to help get her into the car, again fingers crossed that she doesn’t mind it… 

Borrowed all of the bits of concrete bricks that we had laying around for the platform situation… that path deserves the goshen stone exclusivity treatment… 

Anyway, the new back step situation has a whimsical quality that kinda hits the spot, and oddly looks like it’s always been there. 

And the race to tie up all the loose ends outside before the snow comes and the ground freezes is still ongoing. We made a huge amount of headway last weekend. Taking advantage of the good weather and getting some items checked off the list, like the huge string of globe café lights… 

We finally had enough shepherds hooks, and I had lopped enough of the bittersweet and raspberries to extend the back yard enough to make them the perfect length! 

The yard out back was all of 10 feet long when we moved here almost 7yrs ago. With its saplings and random bits of shrubbery… no grass, just weeds and pine needles. Now we have gained about 4 and a half feet each year to add up to 38 feet! As exhausting as it seems to have to keep lopping at invasive vines and saplings year after year… knowing that we are making progress, was so worth the time it took to do it. 

Now I am starting to dig out the Christmas trees from the upstairs storage & make an intro for the VLOGMAS videos! 

End of the year! And the excitement I feel when the solstice marks the last day of the darkest days! More light will start coming our way! 

Ooooh! And the favorite food shopping that happens!!!!

Those soft pretzel bites from Whole Foods that we had last year, are definitely on the must have list! 

Mmmmmmmm….

x-J

November Resurrections

Can I finally be on the razors edge 

Of figuring out

How to get back to my enthusiasm 

For being…? 

I may have heard a rumor 

That there’s a map

To the actual map

And at least that’s a thing…

Anyway 

As the allergies begin to fall away 

And the light increases as we lose the leaves

The humidity flees

And the clothes 

Oh the jackets, boots and hats!!!

Cozy hoodies and sweaters!!!

I feel my strength filling back in!!!

Did y’all have a Halloween?

Samhain?

Last harvest in the northern hemisphere?

Good time…?

We had a little time off, and relaxed

And built a thing, then it got crushed by a tree

Ate some sugar

Painted a wall

Both headlights burnt out on our car

Watched some old spooky movies 

Tried to get plants in the ground 

Got our wood stove serviced finally 

Put on makeups

Ate more sugar

Omg fully realized the potential of the faux Ivy 

Now we’ve put most of the Halloween away 

Even though I really want our full house decor theme

To now be inspired by 

The famed Highgate Cemetery in London 

Did you know that for under $20k you can buy a plot in that famous cemetery to have your final resting place…?

Well y’ can!

It’s a chilling prospect to aspire to…

And while we are thinking “chilling”…

I will set up our bird feeders today… 

Cuz it’s “chilling” out…

Frosty mornings are here.

Novembers icy bouquet 

Hangs on the goldenrod as

False blooms

Yet so beautiful 

You crave the image

With the overwhelming fury of 

HOW CAN THIS BE SO INSANELY PRETTY!?!

I just want to wrap my hands 

Around it and crush it!!!

Lol 

Speaking of plants …

I found a bin 

In our basement…

That wasn’t labeled… *gasp*

So I slowly

Released the latches of the stiff plastic lid

And peered inside 

Expecting, I thought 

To find that one missing bin of Halloween items 

The bin that might contain the special orange light bulbs 

That I had been having no luck finding 

And then I saw it

Pale green and languishing 

Stretched thin 

And covering the inside of the bin with perspiration 

Was a pot of Canna Lilies 

I thought they had died 

In a frost

Two years ago 

And there they sat

In the dark 

No light 

No water

Just waiting 

To be discovered 

And I will pot them in fresh soil

And take great care of them indoors for the winter 

And see what happens…

The power of plant energy 

Is fully amazing 

If I don’t forget again

That they’re down there…

Until they’ve taken over the basement

And start sending shoots up through the floorboards 

Eventually leading to their amassing an army

Of plant kind

Which eventually takes over the planet…

Or something like that

Ooooo then the whole world will look like the 

Cascading planty lushness of the 

Famous Highgate Cemetery 

In London

Love it 

Get your hats and gloves on darling 

Because we are heading to the graveyard for a walk…

Let’s go

No seriously …

See you there…

Obsessed.

Speaking of obsession 

Xmas is coming 

Do y’all get excited about decorating?

I’ve got a plethora of faux trees here already…

Maybe just putting them all up

With just lights on them…?

Clustered together…???

I’ve seen some fun colored ones… 

From Target 

I can picture just an all red tree 

With either all red ornaments 

Or all white ornaments like a candy cane…

Maybe just slap a Santa beard on it and belt 

With boots at the bottom… lol

Can you tell that the playful side 

Is trying to find its way back… 

Fingers crossed… 

Happy November Kids,

More poetry coming soon, the rest of “Flights” is waiting 

To meet you…

-J

Pre-Xmas 2018: On the Pressing Precipice of Presentalia Profundus!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I swear I live near some sort of 

temporal lay line or something

I have no idea where the time goes

NEXT WEEK IS XMAS???

decking the halls

&

trying almond milk whipped cream...

the verdict is in...

its delicious!

hey look kids!

Cream Cheese made a cameo X-D

you give me a landing big enough for a tree

ima put a tree

plus we have a kitten 

this guy

Kit McKitterson

mini panther delux

Mr Mars approved

Smooth opperator

Charli Girl approved

he saw his first snow

<3<3<3

but...

...you know the drill

everything must be put out of reach...

which is not easy cuz this bugger can jump!

it all starts with just a twiggy thingy

which will be the remaining 

twinkle lights thing 

when its after new year like...

NO DARK CORNERS!!!

happy accidents

while decking out the offices new incarnation...

this was the office when we first moved in

and it never really got better than this

in fact i have no pics of when it had been

really really bad...

it was the ultimate dumping ground 

complete with moving boxes that hadn't been unpacked...

three years later and three bags off to the junk yard...

(to be clear... not our yard... have you seen my "World Worst Garden Vlog")

...even though it may have made us lol

or cry, depended on the day...

we settled the command center to the closet

close the curtains and what office...

and yes

you guessed it...

we do not have many overhead lights here

which means many lamps n lights

my fave

im settling in here later to sort some old coats

and apparently some old hangers too...

so now we have this sweet lil den

hide out

annex

sitting room

tv room

we already had all the stuff

i just twitched my nose back n forth

and *poof*

a room is made

and to accommodate all the holiday peeps

a bench was added

hey you can't even tell with this lighting 

i still haven't finished the grout paint...

soon... 

now that we are really really really

getting settled in

i will have time to do it

soon...

got that second bench...

i feel a nose twitch...

but...

I will post a bench-tastic pic 

later...

i made the mistake of thinking i could snap a pic this morning

and have it appear in the cloud for the sharing...

nope...

*sigh*

we've had tremendous luck getting the rest of the pics here...

just took two days of leaving the laptop on...

heh heh... whoo boy

*facepalm*

:-X

i found some extra pluggy inny 

candles so i had to...

this space has evolved a wee bit since this pic...

i will be doing a posty toasty vlog on the YouTube...

i will probably have to drive down to the village for that post...

LTE where are you???

painted up a bunch of stars to stick here n there

made from old cereal boxes...

who needs oat tag...

is that what they call that heavy duty 

beige craft paper that exists between 

cardboard and paper lol

too lazy to look it up?

mebbee... or maybe i had to

put all devices on airplane mode to upload a pic...

`\_<..>_/`

is that supposed to be a shrug?

omg

we had some fun with outdoor lights this year...

by fun I mean stuff kept breaking/burning out...

i think the outside is done...

dont quote me on that...

we will vlog that too...

YouTube all the time...lol

lil trees

big trees

outdoor trees...

more to come...

but until then...

you know where to stick your creativity...

in your projects...

duh.

lest yee furgitz...

MAKE SOMETHING!!!!

~XOXO~

.*.*. JM .*.*.

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Gram

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I see you:

USA

Australia

Brazil

UK

Hong Kong

Japan

Poland

Singapore

Ukraine

and the one wee kitten viewing from that great Unknown Region 

you all have a great week, its half over...

its the end of the year so happy festful times <3

will you be with friends/family/pets/yourself...

do you sit and obsessively read blogs...

omg me too!

don't forget to follow...

the widget hides on the right hand side 

of the full web version

go find it...

I've told santa claus that all i want for xmas 

is one new follower...

:-D