The Tree Has Lights

Now the penguins have something interesting to look at. We didn't get to the ornaments, which I plan to edit heavily this year, but I always say that....
They are stored on a high shelf in the garage and are quite heavy, so we decided to keep the ladder up and wait for reinforcements tomorrow. 

Every year at this time I remember that I don't have a proper tree skirt and my supply of white sheets is dwindling. So I go to Amazon to see if I can get one and they are all faux fur, garish or expensive or can't be delivered before the 20th. I should probably do it anyway so I'll have it for next year and won't have to go through this again. I did find an old sheet which looks fine. 

We are trying to maintain our schedule of getting out of the house for a walk first thing in the morning, so we managed a walk with Spike before meeting our coffee group by foregoing coffee at home. There was talk about the earthquake which none of us felt, but apparently a few people in Santa Rosa did. This one was on the San Andreas Fault which runs most of the length of the state, but the epicenter was about 200 miles north of us. 

When we lived in Berkeley, our house was only about three blocks away from the Hayward Fault and for as long as we lived there (45 years) we heard predictions of a 'significant earthquake on the Hayward Fault within the next 50 years'. We had our earthquake kits stored in plastic bins...but where? We were given lists of survival equipment to put in them, but if the house falls on the bin, what good is it? It was still fairly intact when we came here but they really have to be updated and refreshed every year and, although there was an earthquake in Napa not long after we arrived here which definitely got our attention, we never really kept up with the earthquake bin. Fire became the more pressing threat.

We do have tsunami zones near the coast but the tsunami warnings which followed the earthquake ones on our phones were cancelled after  about an hour.

We went to the bookstore to get a 2025 calendar, and I was tempted to go and get the purse I mentioned the other day, but I didn't really want to drag Spike and John along so we took ourselves home and concentrated on getting the Christmas tree lights down off the high shelf and onto the tree. It looks pretty with just lights....

The womna who does my quilting for me called to say that my Klee inspired quilt was finished and she was going to be at the house next door for a meeting of her women's group and could drop it off. I promptly forgot she was coming and also that she prefers cash, so when whe called to say she was on her way, there was a frantic rush to scrape together the cash, I was a few dollars short, but she told me not to worry about it. I spent some time this afternoon cutting the binding for it as the recipient, my friend Ann, had surgery today and it would be nice to have it ready for her when she comes home from the hospital.

So another day has passed in a blur and my glass of wine awaits....