The Second Day After Christmas

On the second day after Christmas my true love and me, went grocery, Lowe's and Walmart shopping. We had planned to go up to TN again but we saw in our rental contract we must stay and drive only in the great state of North Carolina. Bummer! We went to The Pink House this morning because we thought we might have found a dresser for our bedroom, but alas it was not wide enough to put the TV on....so back to the drawing board. We went to Publix and got a few things, stopped at the Post Office, then came on home. We assessed our storage bin situation and decided we would go to Lowe's and get some bigger containers to work with. Then over to Walmart to get some pizza, surprisingly their pizza is rather good, and a few other things. We fixed the pizza by taking the sausage off and adding sliced green olives, ate and then began to work in earnest getting everything sorted and taken down. I worked inside and Roy worked on the outside. We only took a couple of breaks and got most everything done and tomorrow we will begin to put everything back in the garage. It seems strange this evening not to have the lights on, the tree lit and the festive colors on the bookcases and tables downstairs.

Buddy has finally settled down. She thinks she wants to go out in the garage because she watches the Feral kids go under the deck and house. It is so cold out. She hasn't a clue! The feel like temp today was 22. I just looked out the back window and there was an orange cat eating up the last of the evening dinner. I have a feeling that Mr. Orange is the father of the Feral Family kiddos. I just read about the color schemes in cats and most orange cats are male and they don't usually have the black and orange chromosome. That is why most calicoes or cats with orange and black coloring are female.  I hope he and Mama Cat aren't getting back together....if you know what I mean.

There is music for Christmas decorating, but no music for Christmas clean up. I also think it is easier to go tell it on the mountain, here, than in Texas. And In the Bleak Mid Winter is incorrect. Winter officially begins on December 21 and we celebrate Christmas on December 25th. So technically, it wasn't the mid winter, although it could have been bleak. I'm not sure. I'd also like to report I did not see three ships a sailing on Christmas day, on Christmas day. And too, I know this has been written about, pondered and so forth but I have a feeling when Jesus was born, it was not a silent night. You have noisy shepherds and sheep...you have angels and then the cry of a baby. So, those are the last of my Christmas music themes and thoughts.

Tomorrow, we have a couple of errands and then the grand put away of the season. Thoughts begin to drift toward January...it is a long month it seems. The weather reports seem to think that we will have cold, maybe even below normal temps into the first week of January.

So that is a wrap up of the second day after Christmas.