Dec 13 2009
Festive
Christmas cookies
Wow. It’s pouring out there. It’s raining so hard I can hardly hear myself try to think. Between the glass roof on the back porch and the skylight in the bedroom, I feel like I’m under a waterfall.
It’s dark enough to have a light on, and I’ve lit the Christmas lights on the banister:
Here’s my little tree. I thought lights on the tree and the banister above it would be too much, so I just settled for ornaments. Now I kind of wish I’d gotten the lights, and also the light up star shaped topper which was on sale at Rite Aid, but still seemed too expensive at the time.
This is my wreath. I put the ornaments on it and I think it’s cute. It’s on the side/front door.
Yesterday, I helped Megan decorate her tree. It’s a living one, and lives outside, so Rob dragged it over near the sliding glass door* of their living room, so we can see it from inside the house. We put on lights and hopefully rain-resistant ornaments, and it’s beautiful. Pretty soon we’re going to have to haul it to the property and plant it in a place of honor. I think I’ll get a living tree next year, too. At least up here I won’t have to see the depressing sight of trees unceremoniously dumped at the curb the day after Christmas.
We also made Christmas cookies. I can’t even remember the last time I made cookies, but it probably wasn’t during this decade. I found a couple of recipes in the Chronicle which looked intriguing: Russian tea cakes and molasses-black pepper cookies. It was a butterpalooza, I tell you what. Megan made calzones from scratch during the baking process, so the house was toasty and warm.
Later Jonathan came by after work, and we all ate calzones for dinner and enjoyed the sparkling tree, glowing in the darkness.
*It doesn’t actually slide – the house has settled too much. Not that it’s scary or anything. Also it will be really hard to get their furniture out when they move, since the only other door is about half the width of a regular door. And purple.
4 Responses to “Festive”
Such fun decorating at Christmas time. It all looks very festive.
How long has it taken for the house to have settled so much?
jx
Well, Megan and Rob have lived there more than ten years, and they could open the doors when they first moved in (which is how they got everything in). But I think the house is older than that, maybe 30 years old or so. My sliding glass doors work fine, though!
That seems like a lot of settling…
We had a live Christmas tree last year and it was fabulous. We planted it in the spring, but sadly while we were on vacation in July there was this crazy heat-wave drought and we don’t have the water available to water the trees… so… :(. Steve thinks it’ll bounce back so we’re hopeful!
Glad to see that you decided to decorate for Christmas it all looks great, the cookies look especially delicious.