This week I had Monday off for Remembrance Day

and after watching the memorial service from Ottawa

on TV I spent part of the afternoon packing up all of

the Fall decorations plus stowing away the rest of the

nick knacks that are usually out throughout most of the

year, all to make room for the Christmas decorations

that we're putting out this weekend.

Every year my friend Darlene comes for the weekend

that we consider the official beginning of the Christmas

season.    You see this is the weekend that Santa comes

to town.   He arrives in Georgetown tonight in a night

time parade and he arrives in Toronto tomorrow in the

109th annual Toronto Santa Claus parade.

We'll make busy like Santa's elves decorating the 

trees and the house while Christmas music plays

on the stereo and egg nog cools in the fridge.  DH's role

is to haul the boxes of decorations out of storage and

bring them upstairs for us.  He'll also brings the tree

up and sets it up for us.   Then he leaves us to get

to work.

It'll take Darlene and I all afternoon to decorate the

main tree and put most of the decorations around

the house.   On Sunday we'll be decorating the

small tree and putting the finishing touches all over.

Tonight we'll head to the pub for dinner and some

Christmas cheer.   

Summer memories.

We've had some fairly chilly weather at times this

week ... cold enough to force me to dig out my 

long johns and my warmer scarf and mitts.  I walk

a lot around town and getting from point A to point

B can be unpleasant when your legs are freezing.

It's times like that (Tuesday night -  walking home from

Loblaws - freezing) that inspires memories of the past 

summer and some of the fun things that we did ... in 

the warm weather.  Sigh. Such as when we went on a 

dinner cruise around Toronto Island and Toronto 

harbour in August.  The cruise was arranged by DH's 

work and we had a fabulous time.  The above picture 

is of the boat that we sailed on.

And here is DH and I on board the ship as it made

it's way around the Toronto Islands.   The cruise

ship left the dock around 6:30 and we got back to

our starting point at 10:30.   

This picture was taken at Crawford Lake

Conservation area ... also in August.

I am missing green, growing things

already.   But soon Christmas lights

and decorations will be popping up,

and some can even be seen in some store

front windows right now, and that will 

help a bit.

This is a short post this week because of

time constraints due to the start of all of the 

traditional Christmas decorating which 

will be followed by the traditional vacuuming 

of all of the Christmas glitter and dust coming off 

of the ornaments and the boxes that they've 

been stored in all year.   

Let the season begin!!!!

Cheers!