I love the first week of January! Of course, I love everything about any new year...even the weather. I particularly enjoy the quietness of the post-holiday period. Quiet and simple. Ahh.A couple of highlights for the week:
I made one of my quick trips to Fresno on Thursday to see Mom. My sister was able to stop by for a few minutes, which was fun! It was just enough time for us to open Christmas presents! Yes, we had to stretch the Christmas season to January 8. Mom had even left her Christmas decs up! We don't concern ourselves with Time constraints in this family! No. We keep Christmas (and birthdays, etc.) in our hearts (as Tiny Tim says) all year! Mostly because some of us are not quite as organized as we could be.
One of the gifts for my sister's family from us was a calligraphy piece I had made for them. Here's a photo. The words "Lord" and "Peace" are made with real gold.
Another bright spot in the week was that on Saturday, we bought and actually planted three fruit trees in our fenced (sorry, all you munching deer out there) garden area. It's bare-root season and the weather is nice enough at the moment to dig around and get some work done.
Here's Tom, wielding his mighty spade to remove one of the two dead-ish trees we had to pull out in order to have room for the newbies. I don't know if they're so visible, but our little tree babies are lined up in a row in the last photo. We planted two apples (Calville Blanc and red Fuji) and a cherry (Lapins, similar to Bing).In a couple of weeks, we'll add to our berry collection, which is, at the moment, restricted to Siskiyou Blackberries.
