15th December 2024
It was nice to have a good sleep and a little lie in, after all it is Sunday.
It had rained overnight so a lot of the snow had gone, the temperature was also rising melting the rest of it by the end of the day.
Kelli was on a mission. We haven’t put our Christmas tree up yet because we can’t get in to the storage room where it’s stowed.There are lots of things in that room that would have to be removed, and we didn’t have the appetite.
The mission was to find a smaller tree that could fit on top of a dresser or bookcase, that entailed going to Goodwill.
The one on the south side was our first port of call. I didn’t hold out much hope, but I was wrong, we spotted a small tree.
On closer inspection it turned out to be half a tree, that could hang on a wall.
Kelli was excited, it had coloured lights that worked, she also found a number of coloured willow sticks, some white, and some red, of course we had to have those. I tried to get a discount on the tree saying that there was only half a tree, so it should be half the price. Although that got a laugh it didn’t get a discount.
Next we had to travel to the north side to collect a solid maple coffee table.
He had got things from the people before, when they were moving from a large house on the south side. Their new place was a condominium on the north side within a controlled residential development, something they were struggling to get used to. The table must have had a hard life, as the scratches illustrated, but it will be as good as new once I get my hands on it.
Next was ice cream at Kelli’s mums, and to finish the repair to the lock that I started last week.
That entailed chiseling out a cavity from the frame and setting in a new piece of wood that I had already cut to shape. With a dab of epoxy adhesive it now works perfectly.
We did manage to take pictures of the table in between the rain.
Another Lifetime to go 