Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Good morning. I was up before the birds, along with Mark. He had a reason, going hunting with Bob and Wayne. Me? I just couldn’t get back to sleep. 🤷‍♀️ So, Mark has been up since 4 AM and me since 5 AM. It’s a brisk morning in the upper 40s and going to a high of only 65 today. Winter is here, the weather we dream about when it is 90°+ in the summer. It’s another at home day, as it is for much of the population. But, I have food to prepare for the dogs meals, a few bits to wrap up for Christmas, the everlasting laundry and housework, and perhaps a bit of time for another art lesson.

This is the beautiful Donnelly house in downtown Mount Dora. It is the crowning jewel of the little New England-style city. It’s so beautiful to see it lit up, and across from the community center where every tree is wrapped in lights. Did you know that I painted a watercolor picture of it 25 years ago. At the time, Sue and I had signed up for a watercolor class in Boca Raton. The very first class, our teacher was taken ill and we never saw her again. A substitute came in and did her best. It wasn’t the instruction we were expecting. Everyone worked long on their own and had to substitute to ask questions of. It’s too bad, we really wanted to learn watercolor painting. Here’s a picture of the one I did all those years ago.

Well, it’s now nearly 6 o’clock and we’ve had our happy hour on the front porch with the propane fireplace going, ate turkey soup for dinner and are now ready to settle in and watch a little TV. It’s going to be a very cold night here, with the possibility of frost. Oh Em Gee. Ha ha, all of you who have snow think we are wimps, and you are correct. 😂

Goofy picture ... but we had fun. It was 66F.  

Ta ta til tomorrow. 🥰