SUNDAY

Crossword was annoying obscure, but oh, well. I've been sleeping well, I'm glad to say, and got up at 6:15. Zipped through my morning routine, had breakfast, then took a deep breath and dived into my Christmas stuff. 

I shall now draw a veil over that activity, except to say it took me several hours to go through, decide what to keep, what not, and separate the two.  Along with the clothes and other things I'm donating, it's a pretty big pile. Mind you, I haven't yet delved into drawers or, for that matter, anything in the closet except what was on hangers. Still, I feel better about it and I cleared much of the bedroom, too, so that's good. Here is, so far, what's going to GoodWill:

Suzanne stopped in before I took this and when I asked if she'd like anything, she picked out a straw hat and a calendar--good, I'm glad she can use them. 

I put aside some of the Christmas stuff and decorated outside a bit. Here's the setup:

Actually, I think the above looks pretty crappy. When I get around to it, I'll get some pine boughs (either buy or cut off some of the trees here and steal it), so it's more attractive. Here was my front door originally:

..but AHA! As I was typing this, it occurred to me that I have that beautiful Christmas tapestry with an angel on it. Darn, I like that better than the above, so I switched:

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Note to myself: Today, I went on-line and signed up for paperless mortgage statements from Chase; they'll still send my tax statement through the mail. Since I have it on auto-pay, I don't know why I kept receiving and filing the monthly paper all these years--I'm a slow learner, I guess.