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2600 in 6

Twenty-six strands of lights and the entire ornament collection all in six hours, to the accompaniment of the “Christmas favorites” iTunes playlist and a lovely dinner of Thanksgiving leftovers. Oh, and a brief pause to watch the lighting of the Westlake tree, the Space Needle, and the KING5 broadcast tower atop Queen Anne Hill.

Been a busy day!

Lighting in progress

Last year Julie Anne had 28 strands of 100 lights each on her tree. This year she’s about a third of the way through stringing the lights and just put strand No. 10 on the tree. Right on track!

Must be the holiday season?

This morning we stopped at Starbucks for eggnog lattes and at Target for Christmas lights, candles, and a wreath and hanger.

Now back at Julie Anne’s discussing the particulars of her holiday decorating plans before we retrieve the dozen or so Christmas boxes from her storage unit, all while she’s mixing up a batch of home-made bread and Christmas songs waft from the living room.

Definitely that time of year!

Happy holidays :-D  

Breakfast is ready

Breakfast is ready
Flickr: Don NunnJulie Anne’s home-made cinnamon rolls fresh from the oven. Her firsttry at scratch-made looks and smells pretty freakin’ good, evenbefore they get their light drizzle of icing.

Stove’s ready

Newly cleaned burners and drip pans in place, a quick test of the burners to be sure we have them seated properly.

Crazy day of cooking may begin now!

Happy Thanksgiving :-D

There really IS “an app for that”.

nice vibe.

People stream around me
Through the steaming streets and flashing lights
We are the blood inside the veins
That pump the city full of life
I get so mesmerized that I forget to breathe sometimes
We move in sync, we spin around
We step in time
Our feet go
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Ah ha, the power was out!

Some 6,000 to 7,000 City Light customers on Lower Queen Anne, including portions of the Seattle Center and the Space Needle, went without electricity for 45 minutes early this morning

via seattletimes.nwsource.com

No wonder my microwave and stereo were doing the 12:00 --:-- 12:00 --:-- 12:00 --:-- 12:00 blinkies this morning. Kind of weird to find out about an immediately local event via the newspapers a few hours after it happened, though.

And I suppose it’s a good thing I use my phone as an alarm clock.