Totally Random...

Carrie, over at Northwoods Scrapbook blog, another northern Wisconsin blogger, has inspired me. The coziness of her lovely bay home, partly because of the candlelight, actually prompted me to go digging out some things in which to place tea lights.

I have an old candelabra which used to hold 5 candles, but one of the arms broke off. I suppose I could have thrown it out, but why?  Three has more Biblical significance than five anyway, and now I have three candles, slightly leaning, on top of one of the bookshelves. I've got to do something about that candle on the left.

Like many others, we're getting lots of snow and deep-freeze temps, which have caused several event cancellations. So for this weekend, we're forecasted to get 5-8 additional inches of snow and an air temp high of -9F on Sunday. Brrr. I'm so thankful for our wood-burning stove, not to mention the man who cuts the wood and brings it into the house!

I hope one of the grandkids doesn't think that huge red box is a present for him or her. They would be very disappointed. It's actually a huge empty cardboard box that I wrapped because I had to have something to set the TV antenna on. I know this is ridiculous, but we can't get cable out here in the middle of nowhere, and wouldn't even if we could, (believe me, Mr. C. and I have been at a motel and tried a couple hundred channels to discover absolutely nothing worth watching) but we do have an antenna that's supposed to bring in a signal within about 40 miles and the transmitting tower is something like 50 miles away. We do this all to get PBS for Masterpiece. It better be good this season! Anyway, so, that means we don't get a picture, unless......we put the antenna thing up very high in the room, facing the south windows, the weather is just right, and we boil butterfly wings and chicken beaks in a cauldron out in the backyard during a full moon.  I decided that at Christmas time it might be nice to take down the stack of books the antenna was resting on and replace it with something more festive - The big red box. Santa Lucia looks on.

 More light. Thanks for the inspiration, Carrie.


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Times past: Three grandsons on a snow mountain in our backyard -  in April.

 From December of 2015
At least December is predictable.
It looks just like this now.

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