MY RECENT FINDS

OK, I told you I was going to show you pictures of the two things I bought last night.  The first one is this cute elf that counts down the days to Christmas.  I have wanted one for so long.  I have it set at 36 days, which was yesterday, but realized that the numbers on the cubes don't let me count down 35, 34 or 33.  So I have to wait till day 32 to really start the countdown.  But the way time is flying that won't be too long.  This weekend in fact.  I posted the picture on facebook and my daughter-in-law informed me that she needed one of these elves in the care package I'm sending to her.  So guess I'm going back to get another one.

 

The other thing I got was this beautiful reindeer.

 

 A couple of months after Joe and I got married we went to Lancaster, PA for a weekend.  The hotel we stayed at had a little gift shop in it.  We went in one day and I fell in love with these two little reindeer.  One was sitting (like this one) and one was standing.  They were a little expensive, but I fell in love with them, bought them, and put them on the little shelf above the sofa in my living room.  They didn't have a wreath around the neck like this one so I was able to leave them out year round.  I never got tired of looking at them and feeling them because they had the greatest texture.  But one day I was moving the sofa to get behind it and the shelf fell off of the wall.  The deer fell too, of course, and smashed to bits on the wooden floor.  I was heartbroken.  We went back to the gift shop, but they no longer sold them.  I have been looking for replacements for a long time.  They are hard to find.  Whenever I did see them, they were way out of my price range.  Last night I found ones I could afford at Rite Aid.  There were several standing ones, but only one sitting one.  So I got the sitting one and when I get paid I will go back and get the standing one.  It isn't the same, but very close.

I am getting tired of my autumn decorations.  Yes, me, the girl who loves autumn.  I'm tired of orange, yellow and brown.  I want to get some sparkly decorations around.  I think when I come home on the day after Thanksgiving I will start decorating the living room.  It takes me a while to decorate.  I do one room at a time.  And I have to totally clean everything.  I may get done by NEXT Christmas at the rate I'm going.

So on that note I am going to get off of here and get some things done.  I am reading to the pre-schoolers at church tomorrow.  I have a bunch of Thanksgiving books for them and a turkey for them to color.  I hope some show up.  I always have fun doing it.

Hope you all have a nice night and a good Thursday.

Thanksgiving Trivia Question:
 What did the Pilgrims call their new colony?
          a)  Plymouth Colony
          b)  New Haven Colony
          c)  Salem Colony
          d)  Hopewell Colony
 Answer tomorrow. 
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Today's weather:
Partly cloudy
High:  47 degrees
Low:  33 degrees
Sunrise:  6:51 a.m.
Sunset:  4:40 p.m.
9 hours and 49 minutes of daylight
Waning gibbous moon