Holiday Lights!

 

 The weather has been sunny and mild. The only clue of the season is how short the days are. The humidity goes way up at night and the pavement has wet spots in the morning.  All that moisture has made the grass turn a spring green.

But it's about to change with a forecast  of rain next week--just in time for Jakey's birthday and Christmas. But the days will start adding minutes of daylight instead of subtracting.

It is getting harder to concentrate on my manuscript since with all the holiday stuff and taking care of year end business things to get ready for next year's taxes.  Somehow I got hooked into dealing with all that.

We're behind in decorating. I thnk Jakey and my son wore themselves out with the Halloween decorations--some of which are still up. There is a greeting committee of  Halloween solar lights as we come in the back gate. 

So far, the only decoration was done by me.  I bought a wreath from IKEA years ago.  It was after Christmas and really cheap.  This year, I finally opened the box.  It's supposed to be battery operated and all I had to do was loosen one screw to open the battery compartment.  Except--well, the screw wouldn't come out.  It wouldn't turn at all.  I thought it was me, but my son had no luck either.  He was all for giving up and tossing it.  Not me.  I was determined to get it to work so I took a hammer and smashed the battery door off and put some batteries in and viola, it worked.  It even has a timer and goes on for six hours and then off. The battery compartment doesn't even show.

 I have to say that I smile when I see it on the door.  When there's a will, there's a way.