It is all neatly put away, labeled, ready for next year --- took four days, doing lots of other stuff too.
Stuff like taking care of 20 horses, 6 cats, 2 dogs, a barn pig, 7 ducks and a bunch of chickens in bone cracking cold (it was 12 degrees with a wind chill in the negatives this morning). Been that way a couple days already and at least three more days of it to go. The woman who runs the barn where my horse and pony live is on her annual 10 day, post Christmas, much needed vacation. I cover for her while she is away - with lots of help from my kidlets. She'll be home Tues, you have no idea how much I'm looking forward to her return! It is freaking COLD out there. Lots of busting ice out of water buckets and water troughs twice daily, then refilling with the hope that the critters will get enough to hold them before it freezes back up...
May as well live with the polar bears and walruses in Alaska! wink, wink...
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"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Stay with me here for a minute...yesterday, my husband and I were watching a 'Dirty Jobs' marathon. One 'job' was castrating lambs...with his teeth. My husband and I had to turn away from the tv. Then the next job had him in the Arctic, hunting some kind of shark. It looked so miserably cold...everything freezing. And one guy fell through a crack into the Arctic Ocean. The friggin' Arctic Ocean (he was okay).
My husband and I both looked at each other at the same time and said we'd choose the castration job over that bitter, bitter cold. No polar bears, no walruses.
And are you sure Al Gore isn't visiting somewhere near you? The extreme cold weather seems to follow him around!
If that ass is around here, he's MINE!
haha
The Missus tells me it was about 8F this morning at our house in E'town. It was mid 30's up here on the Rock. Of course, we're often spared the extreme cold that they get in interior Alaska by the fact that we're surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, but we've had several weeks where the temps didn't get above the mid 20's.
My solution? Fleece-lined jeans, lots of layers, and insulated boots/gloves. Good coffee. And lots of prayers that I'll get reassigned soon... :-)
It is indeed all about layers. After 11 winters tending the critters I know how to do that. Usually don't even need a coat. This is the point at which the final layer is indeed a coat. I have an awesome pair of fleece lined, thinsulate, waterproof glovens that are for sure keeping my digits from freezing off!
None of it keeps my old bones from aching though...
It's about that cold here and I'm shivering just thinking of being out there working like that! I'm impressed that you've gotten all the decorations all put away!!! I need to do that this week. As I said before - taking them out is one thing - putting away is something else again. LOL.
Stay warm!!!
Whoa! WAY too organized! My Christmas stuff is in funky OLD cardboard boxes, halfway falling apart, not labeled or anything. Just kinda thrown in there every year in a massive tangle.
every year i try to get rid of a few more cardboard boxes. i'm almost there. it's a bug thing...
Wow. It was all I could do to take my 18 inch Charlie Brown tree(with ONE ornament) down and stuff it back in it's box...and the box is still sitting on the dining room table! I am THAT lazy. lol
I love your Charlie Brown tree Laura. I truly do :)
It's 43 here this morning, but I know that's nothing compared to your bitterly cold temps!
Does the Christmas stuff have its own room? ;)
Yes it does. The Easter and Halloween stuff is in there too, and the giant bags of dog food. We call this room the bomb shelter. When this house was built the builder went ahead and walled in the space under the front entry porch - so this room is all concrete and below ground, hence the bomb shelter. It is COLD in there in the winter!
I put away my tree and decorations today. I have one unopened present still sitting there. Not sure if I want to open it. Should I? It's a bribe. A pretty bribe. But I don't like the rules that go with it. Hmmm...
Oh, I could open it and send it to you! Therefor, the bribe is no longer on my shoulders. COuld that work?
I'm up for pretty :)