Holiday activities

We are gearing up for the holidays-as are all of you. We tagged our tree yesterday and are going to put it in a different spot in the house this year. It was very warm yesterday, so we did our outside lights-to be turned on in early December. At least my fingers didn't freeze this year. I am getting smarter in my old age.

We have filled numerous bird feeders and they empty out almost daily. It is so much fun to watch the birds from the dining room window.

Grandma Moses' birthplace is just a short walk from our house and her grandson, Will, is painting in her style. His studio is less than 20 minutes from here and it is a very interesting spot to visit. A great diner is across the street for a lunch or early dinner.

Winter has come

We are expecting our first snow tonight-just a dusting, but snow nonetheless. I guess all that firewood will finally be put to good use. We will have our first fire tomorrow to welcome our guests from Paris back to our B&B. Richard and I stacked three cords of wood in the past three days-it was fun to do-but the final mess has to be raked and put in a container for kindling-that is the worse part.

We also made lots of apple sauce from our apple trees-got a hint from a guest to do it in the crock pot. Worked so much faster, but not as much quantity. Sure is good though-we serve it all winter long when fresh fruit is not in such abundance.

Just got home from a party and Richard is watching the World Series. It is an exciting game so far. I had a laundry to do and some emails to answer and now I am relaxing writing this blog.

Going to visit my sister in Connecticut this weekend-our other sister is coming with me as a surprise. We don't often get all three of us together and I can't wait. We have two parties to go to and one of them is sort of dressy-that is always a challange-as my life on this farm does not warrent dressy clothes. It will be fun to dress up.