This weekend we are out gathering greenery for our Christmas decorations. Foolishly, last year I pulled up the hideous hallway carpet we inherited with the house and relished what a lot of stripping and sanding was involved in getting the natural look I desired. But the scuffed and paint-splattered floor lent itself well to the shabby chic look that I could get away with using soft candle light and a mass of foliage swagged up the bannister.
This Christmas we have freshly stained floors and newly painted banisters so I'm loath to risk messing it up with my usual festive decorations. I may just get a big jug of greenery and leave it at that but it's so easy, once I'm in the Christmas mood, to go all out. I shall consult the oracle (Luke) on it and see what he says but after the ten month DIY project that my carefree act of carpet removing caused I'm sure his words will be, "Leave it alone!"
At least we can put up a Christmas tree together.
The finches have benefited from Luke's early Christmas present to them; a sunflower feeder. He added it to our collection of peanut, bird seed, Niger seed and fat ball feeders and within three days it was empty! Mind you we did catch a squirrel dangling from the overhanging branch to help himself!
Well, it's a cold week and every thing has to eat.
