It is the last day of November and it is Sunday. It has been bitterly cold this week but I am staying warm inside the house. It is called 'hibernating'.
But today is the day to get out the lights and Advent candles and put them in the windows. It gets dark earlier and earlier now. I am in the habit of turning them on both evening and early morning... along with most of the neighbours whose windows are now showing both white and coloured lights.
The Wonky Christmas Tree
I have decided to start a new trend; it is called 'resuce Christmas trees'. If there are 'rescue dogs and donkeys' why not trees?
It was a reject from a community tree planting exercise back in May this year (Balloch Country Park). I brought it home and put it in a pot. It has been sitting outside the kitchen window facing south and has done... not a lot.
It is a Western Red Cedar. Time to put it to use...
The bit with the S bend is the tree. I stuck some fir tree branches cut from my friend, Willie's 'plantation' (while he is up north on his boat)... into the pot. Viola! One Christmas tree...needing some lights.... they will come next.
xxxx tree with lights goes here xxxxx still holding......
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I also hauled wood today. The sun at noon was shining throwing its long shadows on the grass behind the woodshed in the adjacent park.
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The Eskimo stone sculpture along with the stone seals are struggling in the iced over birth bath.
And so are the local birds...
