We hope you had a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and healthy Holiday !
Wishing you all the best from our Family to yours
Merry Christmas!
“And when the Lord Jesus has become your peace, remember, there is another thing: good will towards men. Do not try to keep Christmas without good will towards men.” -Charles Spurgeon
From all of us to all of you
I thought it was time we changed the look. What do you think?
Ya, I'm getting tired of the dreary looking weather we're having, so at least here, @ the Bright side of the Barn , it looks like spring on the horizon.
It really was a fun day with the horses last weekend. We did our Santa pictures and I finally got to ride for a while. Star Bright loves to ride. The trailers out of the mud and accessible so we might disappear one of these days and hit the trails.
Christmas is getting closer!
The grand kids are getting so excited. Miss Tiki and I just got done shopping for the Turkey. Papa helped get the Ham on Monday. My counter is filling up with supplies to start the baking process.... Lots of goodies to make. I haven't made my fudge in a long time, hope I remember how!
The family is coming to the new house. The 3 kids and all the grandkids will be together. I'm hoping Papa gets a few pictures. It's been a really long time, since we've had Christmas at Grama and Papa's.
There's going to be food for all 3 meals, so I hope everyone comes hungry. Breakfast rice, and Breakfast burritos are easy to make and heat up nicely as needed. Ham and Scallop potatoes midday, another easy cook and then it's Turkey with the trimmings in the evening.
So much to do!
Presents are filling up the living room around the tree. I still have pillows to stuff and dresses to make for Barbies'. And then there is still Papa to shop for.....
I hope everyone is having a very merry holiday season so far. Just like Lil Star, It goes by so fast.
#lovemyfamily, #lovemyhorses, #holidaycheer, #christmastraditions, #memories,
Riding with the herd
Christmas Cards
Meet "Tessa",
I collect NUTCRACKERS.....
Wikipedia ~ definition...
Nutcracker dolls originate from late-17th century Germany, particularly the Ore Mountains (German: Erzgebirge) region.[1] One origin story attributes the creation of the first nutcracker doll to a craftsman from Seiffen.[2] They were often given as gifts, and at some point they became associated with Christmas season. They grew in popularity around the 19th century and spread to nearby European countries.[1] As the demand grew, nutcracker doll production also began on a mass scale in factories.[1] Friedrich Wilhelm Füchtner (1844–1923), commonly known in Germany as "father of the nutcracker", began the first mass production of the design (using a lathe) at his workshop in Seiffen in Saxony during 1872.[5][6][7][8]
Decorative nutcracker dolls began being popularized outside of Europe after the Second World War, when numerous American soldiers stationed in Germany came home to the United States with German nutcrackers as souvenirs.[1][2] Further popularization came from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, a ballet adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which featured a toy soldier nutcracker.[1] The ballet, introduced to America during the mid-20th century, became a favorite holiday tradition across the United States[1] and helped make nutcracker dolls a Christmas decoration and a seasonal icon across Western culture.[2][1]
If your alive today, you have a good start on reasons to be thankful.
We may not be the America we know and love much longer, so today be thankful we are still here.
Thanksgiving was supposed to reflect a time of cultures joining together to share in a feast of celebration for an accomplished harvest....
Today few know and many question the truth.
What really happened we may never know.
Today, look forward.
Be thankful for where you are.
Be grateful for who you have around you.
Be kind to those you haven't met.
Enjoy your families, drive safe and share the love.
#lovemyfamily,#memories, #traditions, #history
Christmas,
Just getting started! This was before the garland tinsel and reindeer, we were still straightening lights and fussing over loops... Had to take a picture so we could see what was crooked,.... it's pretty bright when your standing in front of it all.
New for Barbie,
There will be yellow, pink, lavendar, a pretty green and a variegated blue.. and then
The brides dress...
Bouquets and bows to come....
Just waiting for the paper roses and ribbon order to arrive.....
Still looking for the 'Mr. Right' Ken..
#Christmas,#lovemyfamily,#lovinglife,#memories, #barbie,
Comfort quilt pillows... They are awaiting a stuffing order to arrive. Snuggy blankets are popular, but as I was watching the kids trying to lay around watching a movie, I noticed, pillows would make it more comfortable. So with all the apron scraps and other materials I started cutting strips. My grandson helped me design a couple of them. And there are a few more to sew. My grandkids have been claiming the ones they want and I'm not even done with the variety. It's going to make a huge impact under Grama's tree this year. They are about 15 to 18 inch squares.
Additionally, there are Barbie clothes to crochet, and embroidery projects to finish....
Decorating has begun officially this weekend.
We're up to about 250 feet of lights outside, 33 nutcrackers, and at least 100 feet of lights inside. The snowmen and Charlie Brown tree are out with the penguins. And I have an order at Lowes to pick up this week.
It's starting to feel a bit like Christmas.....
And the horses.
Loving their life in huge pastures with trees, and friends and peoples that are constantly making sure they have hay and water.
I have 2 of the most amazing fantastic farriers in Western Washington.!
Star Bright's feet have never looked better.
I went to feed my babies yesterday morning,
of course, StarBright was waiting at the gate
She loves having a big field to run in and a lot of friends to play with!
The election, .... The blue won? You voted for that crap really?
Washington state, Oregon and California were of the last polls to open and almost of the first to announce the winners?
Are we that much better at math that we can count accurately at nominal rates? And have results pretty much at the time the polls closed if not before?
Something isn't right....
We will see how this all turns out...... there is a bit of controversy stirring.
So many thoughts spinning through our heads these days.Elections
Virus
Christmas .... oh and Christmas shopping?
yep it's that time of year again.... Get out the list! We are having another new addition to our family list this year. Exciting news!
I absolutely, just Had to start putting up the Christmas lights last weekend. It's been such a heavy year, Much loss and sorrow for many.
We need to have the upbeat happy bright lights and festive spirits early ... Especially for the kids, and the little bit of kids in all of us.
Social distancing has come between family and friends,
for many of us borders closed and we are closed off from loved ones. So many travel plans greatly altered and many cancelled.
It's going to be a different kind of Christmas this year....
while getting ready, I've been cleaning, yep,
I've been cleaning and organizing.... still, however this time we worked our way into the closet. You know the one.... The closet where you throw everything in, as your moving into the house and talk about getting back to it to sort out later.
Later has arrived. And a few more things have got to go!
For Sale
Have you noticed it's not much of a holiday anymore. Just a family/food Don't have to work ~ day.
Stores don't even give it a space between Halloween and Christmas. It's out with the costumes and in with the nutcrackers!!
Fred Meyer, Safeway, they all got the cinnamon pine cones and nutcrackers lining the shelves.
Yep, Thanksgiving is just a day to eat and enjoy family and friends......
So, why wait to put up the lights?
We might as well start getting in the mood for Christmas.
Time flies so fast these days, a month isn't enough!
I really don't see how the blue is in the lead?
** Let's talk mail in ballots. Just for a minute.
Personally I think they should have to be mailed early enough that they are delivered to the ballot location prior to election day.
Opened at 12:01 am and counted election day with the in person ballots and the results at midnight election night.
Period.
If your going to get the opportunity to mail in your ballot be responsible and mail it in early, better yet drop it in a ballot box!!
I know I'm disappointed in my state on many issues.
It's really no wonder we have so much drug addiction, homelessness and devastation in our state.
The same people have been running the show for years, and it shows.
How much worse it'll look after another 4 years?
The city of Auburn ~
~ is more interested in putting pretty pictures on the electric boxes and bettering the sidewalk corners
{I guess so the shopping carts have an easier time crossing the streets?}
~ than they are in dealing with their homelessness, drug problems, and the revolving doors of the justice system.
Seattle ~
is a dump. Straight up.
~ Washington has gone down hill so much.
So sad
Thank you Inslee, and here's another 4 years to screw it up more.
For those mailing in ballots, take em to a drop box instead and do it early, make sure your voice is heard in the election this year.
They say you can mail in a ballot right up to election day. But really, do you think those votes get counted in the end?
For the first time in my lifetime, the country has been running like a business that's owned by it's employees.
And it was good until the virus.
Even now, somehow in the midst of a virus, we have gotten to here where we are starting to rebuild ourselves in a new path, taking our country into a new way of living.
Leave it to AMERICAN'S to turn "wearing masks" into FASHION!!
So let your voice be heard in style, VOTE! 2020.
