A Busy Day
It was time to take the Christmas tree down. It seems as if Thanksgiving was yesterday.
The storage container for the Christmas items came out of the closet. I have several Christmas stockings that never have any goodies put into them and hung. What I do use them for is to wrap the Dept. 56 nativity in tissue and then fill the stockings up with the treasures. No clanking of glass against glass. The plastic storage container holds 99% of what we have out for Christmas. It does get heavy. The counted cross stitch framed Santas are remaining on the living room walls for now.
Our pencil thin 7′ Christmas tree seems to have grown beyond the box that it came in when I purchased the tree at Michael’s in 2020. Thank goodness for 3M strapping tape. That Christmas tree box is put in the corner against the wall in the closet. The heavy plastic storage container sits on top of the tree box. I told Dennis if he ever hears an explosive sound in the middle of the night, it most likely is the strapping tape that has succumb to the pressure of a Christmas tree that wants out. It is easier for us to keep the tree and the decorations in the main floor closet than wrestling it up and down the steep attic steps.
While I took care of Christmas past, Dennis had his own project. Our wooden toilet stool lid cracked. That could have been as serious as in days of old when a swing set that had the sea-saw attachment would pinch tender skin if the operator sat too close to the action.
We had a new plastic toilet stool lid purchased and Dennis took it on as a DIY project today. Bless his heart as he got down on the bathroom floor to work the threaded nylon screws and turn buckles that needed to be accessed from the bottom of the stool. Yes . . . I promised to pull him out by the pant legs if he needed to get a bit farther away from his job. Fear not . . . all went well.
For a job well done, Dennis is getting pan fried chicken titties for supper and my choice of veggies to go with the potatoes.
Tomorrow we meet with Dennis’ favorite podiatry surgeon in Mankato. We are excited to hear what is next on the docket, hopefully soon for a one-day surgery on the metatarsal bone.