Monday was a quiet day other than Price Alarm finally came after a 3 month wait to upgrade our security camera that points towards the dock for a 2 to 8 megapixel and replace the faulty one downstairs which doesn't work at night! This has been an issue since the renovation when the camera hung for several months until the sundeck was finished before being reinstalled.
Tuesday morning we braved the very rainy day and went up to Chemainus to visit the Christmas Store. Yes, we came home with some treasures! We started decorating for Christmas here at Kyle's Kottage to help cheer us up with all the dark gloomy days and Covid news. We sold/gave away most of our Christmas stuff we collected over the years when we sold our house in Nanaimo in 2012, not expecting to have a "residence" again for quite some time. With the purchase of the lake house 2 years ago, the border being closed (thankfully with all the US Covidiots) and a new family member next Christmas, that changed our plans and now we need more stuff again. lol Ray and I have always been "Christmas nuts" when it came to lighting and decorations.
The beginning of decorating. (Actually took 8 days lol)
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were all spent putting up Christmas decorations. not because we have so many, it is quite time consuming and Ray limit's his time with his back. Lights inside and out. With more runs to the store for more supplies. lol More pictures to come when we are finished. :)
Very dreary weather, rain, rain, rain. The lake is now rising quite a bit, no beach exposed now.
Saturday, finally a day without rain. I took off early to Nanaimo to be there when Costco opened for seniors at 8am. Then a couple of errands to run at Canadian Tire, Lowes and Home Depot, for you guessed it, more Christmas decorations. With the new provincial guidelines I wanted in and out of the stores quickly. Nice to see everyone masked up and most stores with security at the entrance to enforce the mask mandate. I was on my way back home by 9:30 am. While I was gone Ray finished up the outside lights since it was not raining.
Sunday we continued to put up the remaining lights and garland in the house. We certainly have lots of railings to dress up. :) Things are looking pretty Christmassy here at Kyle's Kottage. Still to come, is putting up our Christmas Tree on Monday. That was pretty much the only thing I purchased 2 years ago for our first Christmas here at the lake. Last year we were down south. Here are Ray's pictures with night time lights and my attempt at a video for Christmas. I have a few distortions with my iPhone. lol We decorated early to bring some cheer to us and thought we might share it with our friends remotely. :)
Here are the "still pictures" Ray took if you don't have the data to watch the video.
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| Tree finished with the ribbon. |
Plugs above the stove were supposed to work and did not ... , had the electrician come today and rectify that. :) Andrew came by to sort us out.
Of course everything looks better in person, the pictures hardly do it justice. Merry Christmas early, from us.
Garrett out for a walk with his girls.
Monday, I got our tree up and put on the decorations otherwise a pretty quiet day here.
Wednesday, not raining when we got up ... Ray headed to Duncan to take the kicker motor in for servicing off the Lund. I puttered around, took Freya for a walk to the park and managed to sit down at the dock for 20 minutes with my face into the sunshine. Boy did that feel wonderful. Ray came home and took the above Christmas light pictures of the house and I did a bit of video.
And that was the past 10 days.
*** Here is a picture of our old house in Port Alberni that Ray used to light up like crazy ... we have always made an effort to decorate. :) Even had Santa and his reindeer mounted on top of our fifth wheel. Notice the Christmas tree looking like it went right through the roof. lol
Well you certainly are ahead of the game. I put Xmas together on Dec 1st every year and people always make fun of me for being gung-ho. Looks great, well done.
ReplyDeleteWow! Kyle's Kottage looks very festive! Great job.
ReplyDeleteWe have a lot of catching up to do to keep up with the Kyle's! We got our tree the other day but with only enough decorations for a 4' tree we are woefully lacking.
ReplyDeleteWell you still are in the finishing stage. :) We did not have much in the way of Christmas decorations 2 years ago while still in our renovation stage too. When we sold our house we gave away most of our decorations we had collected over the years. Our friends used to call us the "Griswold's" lol We had to temper it down when we lived in the motorhome for 7 years but as you recall had lots of solar lights. :) Our house faces north so can seem quite dark inside on dreary days, which we have had a lot of for the month of November. The lights certainly cheer us up as we are not getting the Arizona sunshine. :) I added an old Christmas picture of our outside decorations when we lived in Port Alberni, BC when the kids were teenagers. :)
DeleteWow! I’m awe struck! You bought most all of this Christmas decorations
ReplyDeletethis year? Very impressive! What fun, have a blessed and Merry Christmas🥰🎅🏻.