Oh they are so cute! It is a thing here. No aliens that I've seen yet though.

PAV - how are your clothes? All clean and fresh???

The what a what? You "villagers" are slightly cuckoo, right? 😹

lauriekallis wrote: »

On the other hand, our trees get a bit chilly here

Is there a reason or movement for the trunk covers? Just a fun thing? I saw them all over town several years ago but wasn’t sure if it was an art display or what.

Did my therapy exercises. Tomorrow have another in-person session. She adds more draconian moves each time! But it seems to have made the pain much better. Only four more weeks. Also another doctor appointment later in the day.

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Just a guerilla art thing, Yooly. Big yarn flowers on fences, parking meter sweaters etc. A unexpected splash of colour.

Oh yes, I remember they were called tree sweaters ❣️

so I managed to be somewhat busy today! Got my dishes washed up, my Christmas decorations taken to the shed and put away (in their proper containers!), the new tires put on my wagon so I can pull the pellets around to the front door instead of having to carry them one bag at a time....

The birds were fed (and the deer from where I spilled the bag), and I built 2 snow gnomes! The hubby came out to look and decided they needed a snow kitty to join them, so while he made the kitty, I made a snow puppy

I was out there grinning like a loon the entire hour I was out there working on them And I realized that building a snowman is exercise! Especially when the first snowball is so big - it takes a good amount of muscle to move that thing, not to mention picking up the other balls to put on top, and all the bending and scooping and patting and shaping.....

Then I came in and made dinner, then finally put up trim in my bedroom! I used beadboard wainscotting style look for my ceiling in my bedroom, but the guys who put it up last spring did not do it correctly - they just slapped the sheets up and didn't fit them on a stud, so one set was meeting in between two studs, which, to my irritation, one began to sag by the end of summer. Since there was nothing there I could afix it to, I couldn't pull it back up to meet the other sheet, so I bought some trip, glue, and 1" screws and glued and screwed the trim along the joint to pull them back together and hold them. It looks fairly good, all things considered, though I'm short 1 piece of trim work - to make it look right, I put up 2 more strips across the ceiling, but the last piece was a bit short, so i'll have to make a trip to the hardware store soon and get another stirp to finish it.

I also have white Christmas style lights strung across my bedroom ceiling, and they needed tightened up. I put them into the beadboard with cable clips that are nailed to the ceiling, though they are a PAIN to get in because it bounces when you try to hammer them in. But I got it done! Its really pretty with the battery candles twinkling in the headboard shelves and the lights on, giving plenty of light to the bedroom but diffused so its comforting and not glaring.

Still, even though I pre-drilled and pre-started all the screws, it was still a good bit of work holding that up and working above my head like that, and my back is letting me know about it! lol

Beautiful family you have there!!!!

Wow! Doggie seems happy but I didn’t think it snowed that much in Greece. Hope all are safe and warm. 🥶

Snowmaggedon 2022! People stranded for 8 to 12 hours on a 70km stretch of freeway around Athens with the army showing up to dig them out 🙀🤷🏻‍♂️ and that's with everyone expecting and being prepared!!!

Should melt by Wednesday!

oh how that beautiful white fluffy stuff can bring all our machines to a halt!

How is the recumbent bike as far as exercise goes, Yooly? I'm picking up mine on Sunday (a kinda of simple, compact, used on) - hoping it will at least be some exercise, if not exactly invigorating...lol.

I'm off to physio now...the first time in a few weeks because of covid....hoping to pick up a few core exercises today too.