(observe, elder care, elephant)

[elainegrey]

Everything in the vase but the evergreen boughs are from our yard. (The deer skull is also from the yard.)

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Draining weekend. Family and elephants, oh my.

I need to get outside tomorrow after work, desperately. It feeds my heart and i think i haven't given myself outside time for a while. I can see the days getting longer: yay!

Later this week i need to help my Dad move furniture so new flooring can be installed. There's a whole drama around this and my brother is finally on his way back to his home, leaving my sister and i to handle some of the stuff my brother stirred up but didn't finish (nominally because of covid).

We removed the Yule tree today. Only putting on lights is -- really nice. I miss refreshing my memory by going through the ornaments, but the pleasure of the tree is about the same. I'll note that we have 600 lights on the tree -- three strings of 200 -- so it is very festive. At some point, the lights will give out or we'll do a blue tree (Christine's wish). We had white and red lights for years, though, and i am enjoying the multicolored lights.