Time to dress for the Christmas season . . .

 The front room
 

 Lining the banister

The backyard . . . keeping the backyard urn seasonal

 Started getting the Nativity set pieces together . . . here is the set Jo has decided she wants

 

Another tweak or two . . . changed out the porch light

 

 

Wreath on the door, swags on the window sills . . . candles in the windows . . .

We are looking pretty darn good . . .

 The front stoop . . . yes, the squirrels have been busy . . .

 

and this is how busy they have been . . .

 

 So after thanksgiving the pumkins and gords are going away . . .

an update . . . the gord has been moved into the garden to let the squirrels continue to feed on it . . .
as you can see, they can also live in it . . . they have been making use of it.

The Beauty bush looked really nice tonight . . . 

Tried to get an angle on it . . . seeing the water droplets on the berries

Just couldn't decide on the best back drop . . .

 So I took a few shots to see what I could do with it . . .

The 2014 Halloween Story . . .

Mom's complaining I'm not keeping up my blog . . . she is right . . . so, here is our Halloween 2014 Nights story.

We put out some fall decorations

 

Mr Pumpkin was all set to go, then the squirrels got involved . . .

Mr Pumpkin and the three stair pumpkins all got severly chewed on . . . but they hung in,

till Halloween day . . . Mr Pumpkin had become zombie pumpkin . . . one stair pumpkin turned to mush . . . so, Halloween day one of the stair pumpkins got promoted to mr pumpkin and a couple pumkitties took the place of the stair pumpkins . . .

Then about 450 kids/people/trick or treaters later . . . all were retired . . . 

 Pumkitties . . .

 Mr Pumpkin before the squirrels . . .

And all had fun and it was a wonderful evening in Historic New Castle!

Happy 90th Birthday Jean M Sullivan!

Arrival . . . SFO . . .

rescuer . . . thanks Mike!

 Driving up the coast . . . love the redwoods . . .

 and the giant gnome . . . for Chris!

 Ahh . . . there it is . . . ocean!

Found mom at home . . .

 and Pat came by for Pizza!

 Reviewing Mike's latest project . . .

 He does find the most interesting shirts . . .

Putting it all together

let party begins . . .

 presents?

 The hostess . . . love you Pat!

 Yes, I'll figure this camera out . . .

 

 backyard looking good!

 other arrivals and the party is on . . .

 cakes and more cakes and pie . . .

 and fire . . .

 revillers revill