I have a confession to make: I bought the Carpenters Christmas album off the Apple store last night. Have you ever heard it? There is just something about Christmas that wouldn’t be complete without Karen Carpenter singing, “There’s no place like home for the holidays,” to me. I recognized the correct album based on the cover image – I have stared at that cover every Christmas morning, emblazoned on a bonafide record cover, not some mamby-pamby CD cover, since I was probably four.
In other words, it was totally essential to add that to the Christmas playlist today…
…along with this album, which apparently aired the same year I was born (“If you believe in love, that will be more than enough for you to come and celebrate with me” – SING IT, KERMIT!):
In other words, it has been a good day so far. I got to Skype with my family in snowy Colorado, including my two beautiful nephews, this afternoon so I could watch them open our presents (including this handknitted owl for Ben).
Then tonight, we should be getting a massive storm (for Indiana) blowing through with a predicted 6-9″ of snow. Bring it, snow! I got no place to go!
In preparation for tonight’s storm, we stocked up on supplies…
We have many good things to read (including TWO copies of this book – such a good read we bought it for each other!)…
We have a doggy to keep our laps warm…
We have plenty of eggs (and a brand new egg skelter so I can admire them – best present ever!)…
And we even made a warmer for the chicken waterer! Tin from Goodwill + lamp kit from Lowe’s = $13 warmer. Not having to refresh the chicken waterer four times a day all winter? PRICELESS. We followed the directions from the Chicken Chick, although you really only need to drill one hole and run the wiring through the screw that feeds through the side of the tin. It’s amazing what a 40W bulb will do.
The warmer for the chicken waterer gets highest marks: the Little Red seal of approval.
Tomorrow, all we have to do is watch the storm outside, skim coat a wall or two, plan out our dream furniture for the office, knit, and watch movies. Sounds downright decadent, doesn’t it? Merry Christmas, and hoping you are having an equally blissful day!
Nothing says “Christmas vacation” like an ambitious drywall-related project!
Sounds like an absolutely perfect holiday!
It really was! This week is really just what I so desperately needed – to chill the hell out for a minute.
Merry Christmas, I,d love to flick through the books, very unlikely I will find it in the u.k
Merry Christmas to you, too! It’s such an interesting read, that book – maybe someone should write a local version for the UK!
Alcohol and cinnamon buns – if that doesn’t get you through a snow storm, nothing will!
We survived (although, post-cinnamon bun, we were both forced to eat the leftover turkey chili because OMG SUGAR OVERLOAD!).
I love the idea of the heating lamp to keep the water defrosted! Unfortunately there is no power supply near our chickens at the moment as they’re in a field.
The egg helter skelter is fabulous and shows off your pretty coloured eggs perfectly!
We have an extension cord that JUST makes it out to the coop – but it probably isn’t the best plan in the world, long-term, to have it all rigged up like that. It is making my life a lot simpler, though, not freezing my fingers off replenishing their water every few hours!