T O P S

One of the highlights of this year has been our top collection.

I added the vintage game - Battling Tops to the mix this year and 

boy is that game just as fun as I remembered.  

 

In and Out

We decided to find a wild tree this year from the Vermont State forest.  It was a bit like finding a needle in the haystack, but once we found a location, finding the tree was painless. We got a sweet and scrappy little tree that has lots of air space and breathing room for the ornaments.  In other words, it's a bit sparse.   It's now settling in and we'll decorate later tonight or tomorrow.  I think this will be a very sweet tree.  

 

Holiday Decorations

I totally  had fun this year decorating the front of the house for the holiday. 

I spray painted sticks a creamy white to match our trim, added some sparkly bling to the tips of the white sticks that echoed the color of our door and porch and trimmed it all in some festive greenery.  
I love it.  

 

Thanksgiving Covid Style

The pandemic has impacted everything this year, and Thanksgiving is no exception.

We had a family dinner with Grandma and Sandy.  We still decorated and set a gorgeous table, 

made lots of food, and did our very best to make it a special day.

 

Rowing 2020

Due to Covid, Anders rowing season was short and simple. He had only 2 races that we could spectate.  One was on Lake Champlain and one was on Otter Creek down in Vergennes.  Here he is in his boat with his team mates, as well as an after race snapshot of his pals.   

 

 

Pandemic Collage Portraits

 

Biden Harris for the Win

After hearing the news of a Biden win on Saturday afternoon, November 7, our whole family hit the street.  With pots and pans banging, trumpets blaring and shouting everywhere, the street came alive.  With friends we spontaneously paraded downtown and rallied with hundreds of other folks cheering, beeping, shouting and congratulating each other for the win.  There is nothing that could have made us happier. That evening we created an outdoor pizza dinner with our friends down at the Intervale. We made ten pizza's in the pizza oven and celebrated all over again with cake and sparklers! Hoorah for the end of traumatic and unkind era.  May peace and love and democracy prevail.