Christmas on the Porch From Last Year

I hope that y'all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday.  

We celebrated our first one here in Texas.  Now the left overs

are in the fridge and it's time to think about Christmas!  Well,

it doesn't feel like Christmas here. The sun is shinning and it will

be around 70 degrees today.  Beautiful day with no snow in sight.

The wonderful thing about Picasa Web is that old pics from 

previous years are so handy to refer to.  Do you remember the

decorations I had on my porch last year?  Well I pulled up some

of the pics to remind myself what I did.  I want to decorate every

square inch of our new place including our back and front porches.

But I need a little different theme this year.  I am opening 

Christmas decorating boxes and plan a quick trip to Hobby

Lobby today too.  I hope that it's not too crazy out there.  I 

usually avoid black Friday shopping, but holiday decorations

are always the exception.

Every house has a different personality and the porch is no

exception.  I think I will start with the potting bench and let it

evolve from there.  Do you decorate that way?  I usually don't have

anything specific in mind.  I just pull out a few things and see

where the muse directs me.  I don't think that I have ever

decorated the same way twice.

I left some of my decorations in storage back in Idaho.  One day when we

finally get that cabin built I will already have the furniture and decorations

up there for it.  I remember last Christmas we had plans to start construction

in the spring.  Then the move to Texas came about and well the cabin

just took a back seat.

Now we are down here near the Gulf Coast.  Maybe I 

need a beach theme for this year.  We'll see what happens.

So stop back by and see what's going on.  

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Bentley is still in bed.  He played so hard and had so

much turkey yesterday.  He's being lazy now.

Big Texas Hugs,

Susan and Bentley