Decking the halls

The front of the house is decorated with evergreen wreaths (each sporting a red velvet bow) on the windows and the storm door. Pine garland outlines the front door as well and a small spray of leftover pine boughs is tied up with another red velvet bow and bedecking the trellis. Battery- and timer-operated Jesus candles are in the windows. Hubbyfink and I are still hemming and hawing about putting up lights. We do have a package of white icicle lights, but I kind of like the simplicity of the wreaths and candles; although you can't really see the wreaths at night.

The tree is up and I'm giving the cats a few days to get used to the new "toy" before it gets covered in brightly colored and/or shiny objects. Oreo has already chewed through a wire, thus shorting out the bottom third of our pre-lit tree. Hubbyfink thinks he can fix the wire, though, and then we'll put more conduit cover on the exposed bits. Stupid cat.

We changed out the shiny brass door hardware and porch light for "aged" bronze hardware and "rusty" bronze light. I am deliriously happy with our new porch light. Now if I can just get the daylight sensor thingie to work correctly -- the light was still on when I left for work this morning -- I will be ecstatic. The door hardware is a huge improvement as well. We're just not shiny brass people. I still need to paint the door knocker and a backer plate on the coat closet and we'll just about be done. Oh, and Hubbyfink needs to put up new weather stripping. I cannot wait until we get a new door and storm door next year.

In fitness news, I was Mrs. Bundle of Energy most of the weekend. After a three mile walk/jog, I did three loads of laundry, raked the yard, swept and vacuumed, cleaned catboxes, and put away harvest decor. I don't think Hubbyfink understands why I feel like I'm going to climb the walls if I sit for too long. This is such a huge change in my personality. Now if only the terrible pain in all the diodes on my right side would cease, everything would be hunky dory.