Jo Edgett

It’s been a long, long while since I last blogged. I spent a month and a half up in B’s office while work was completed on the new floors and mini-renovations downstairs. When it was finished on Nov. 13th, I naively thought it would take us a week, maybe a week and a half, to get everything put back into place. Good grief. By mid-December all the painting was done and the house, at least downstairs, was functional once again. And then suddenly Christmas was upon us and I was already behind on baking, decorating, and finishing the seven scarves I had decided to knit for presents. We go all out at Christmas, so usually we wish some family would come out for a visit then, but this year we’re glad no one did (the guest bedroom houses all the remaining post-renovation chaos).I’m hoping to have the guest room up and running for a May re-opening.

The moms (and others) have had to wait too long for photos of the completed reno, but here they are, finally, with some x-mas shots thrown in. Hope everyone had a merry holiday and has plans for a festive ringing in of the new tomorrow night. Cheers!

We took a break in late November to attend the Mahone Bay Father Christmas Festival, our usual start to the season. Even though this Sinterklaas’ hugs are free, I was too shy to go get one. Santas still make me nervous. This year, the pre-Christmas snow actually stuck around and we had our first white Christmas. Stuffing branches into rolled up chicken wire shoved into the new-ish window boxes was so much easier than wiring together boughs and tying them to sills. Check out the real flocking and the real icicles. Mother Nature really helped me out with the decorating this year. A female cardinal , outside my office window. Tree #1. Tree #2 and the table set for Christmas dinner. Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies + Blackcurrant Pistachio Thumbprints + Almond Sugar Cookies + Pecan Maple Buttercreams = yum. Santa stupidly put a catnip mouse in Monkey’s stocking, so Monkey shredded his stocking. Bad Santa. Lauren made this sweet card display. The dessert table, with my ‘Homage to Button Moon’ Christmas tree art piece that I won at a local art auction (it’s done by my pal Sophie). Jai and Little G. Dinner! With Jai, Lauren, Griffin, Lydia, David and Sophie and us. An extra special Christmas dinner, as it was G’s first! Griffin liked the wrapping as much as the gift. Gnome paper! Another modern folk-art piece from Sophie. That’s me on the left, B on the right (with a backward facing Kangol hat no less). B & I super-love this. And finally, especially for Doreen, a photo of the birthday gift I made for B this year. His mom (that would be the lovely Doreen) sent us his grandpa’s fishing lures years ago, and I only just got around to putting them into shadow-boxes. They look stellar, and B was really touched. Sweet.