getting ready

We've been working on this all week, so today wasn't too bad.

Plus, we no longer have little kids in the house, so it is so much easier.  There are no messes to clean up, no fights to break up.  It's very different.

 As we worked, everything that needed a decision later went to the dining room table.  Eventually that had to be dealt with too.

We vacuumed so many times, over and over.   I must have emptied the tank five times.  It was to that point it always reaches when we're cleaning for an occasion, where I look at the dog and wonder how it is possible that she is not bald?

We dusted, vacuumed under the radiators, put away things that sit around, being overlooked for months on end.

And then we decided to tackle the gravy.  We defrosted the fat left from the turkey we cooked before and got to work on it.  It takes patience and a bit of time, but glad that's out of the way for tomorrow.

Tim put batteries in all the candles, looking good.   Last time we had a real fire in here was 1996.

Here's where I found Elin while I was working on the tables. Girl knows how to live.

And that's the end. 

Happy Thanksgiving Eve.   Love, Val