15 December - a new kind of selfie

Jeg har PYNTET JULETRÆ i dag - oh fryd, oh lykke!!

Der røg kun en enkelt kugle på gulvet - jeg benyttede lejligheden til at tage et elegant selvportræt; den slags er jo umådeligt populært for tiden har jeg hørt ...

                                

A Christmas selfie -

there was only this one casualty at

today's grand Xmas tree decoration event

                                

All the baubles and ornaments -

well, most of them anyway ...

                               

- And what the dining table looks like now.

It's likely to stay this way for a couple of days :-)

Jeg købte træet i går hos en næsten-lokal forhandler (nabo-sognet).  Det er et vældig glimrende arrangement - dels har de, efter min mening, meget fine træer som er blevet gødet, nippet, og nurset  -  og dels så er en af dem, man handler med, en kortvarig flamme fra min dunkle fortid.  Så giver de fejlslagne affærer alligevel pote, viser det sig - oven i handelen fik jeg nemlig (ud over lidt rabat "fordi vi har jo sår'n kendt hinanden lidt engang" :-) et lille pjusketræ som de alligevel ikke kunne sælge fordi rådyrene har gnasket i det.  Og således har jeg i år også Juletræ på terassen:

Jow jow, det kan nok svare sig med gamle kjærester hist og pist, hæ hæ.

Ud over Juletræspynteri er jeg endelig ved at samle peberkagehus. Fotos følger - måske i morgen, måske ikke; jeg skal nemlig på hygsomt venindebesøg. Og tirsdag skal jeg ud og drikke et glas gløgg med en gammel bekendt, jeg ikke har set i maaaange år - det bliver så hyggeligt!

Alt i alt STORNYDER jeg December. Wie immer er der nogle ting, jeg ikke har nået. F.eks. var det Luciadag i fredags, og ikke en eneste lussekat fik jeg bagt. Til gengæld var jeg så til Julefrox med Kagedåserne; det var den bedste prioritering.  Der er heller ikke nogen, der har fået pakkekalender fra mig i år.  Og så ville jeg egentlig godt have haft det peberkagehus op allerede sidste weekend - men hey-ho, til næste år er der jo heldigvis atter en Jul, og så er det nogle andre ting, jeg ikke når. Sådan kommer jeg på fin vis hele vejen rundt, i løbet af 2-3 år. Jeg synes selv, det er et glimrende arrangement.

Og nu må I have mig undskyldt. Jeg skal ud og finde noget glanspapir. Der er en togstation, der skal guerilla-julepyntes ...

@ N ~ it's the most wonderful time of the year.  If you have a colour printer, you can just print out some of my blog pictures and use them as Xmas decorations ;-)

I bought my tree yesterday.  Originally, I've always thought that the tree shouldn't go up until a few days before Christmas. But the first time A's mum came from Iran to spend Christmas with us, I put it up mid-December so she could thoroughly enjoy it - - and then I fell so much in love with it myself that I've now given up my past dogma and try to get the tree in around 10 days before, give or take.

Last year was the first Christmas in my little old house, and the first time I was buying my own tree around here.  I found a small local plantation, and as it turned out, one of the guys selling trees was someone I had a brief affair with when I was around 17.  I went back there again this year - 1, because their trees are actually really nice, and 2, because he cuts me a deal "since we know each other somewhat, wink wink" :-)   This year, I got an extra tree thrown in for free, because it's a tiny one and the deer had been nibbling it so they couldn't really sell it.  So, bonus, I have a tree out on the patio as well.  Just goes to show that old mistakes affairs sometimes do pay off after all.

And today I got out the ginormous boxes with baubles and ornaments ... Aaaah :-)  It takes most of the day, with plenty of breaks in between.  But you'll have to wait for pictures of the finished tree (cliff-hanger)

I'm also almost done with the gingerbread house. Finally. It's been a long time in the making this year but with a bit of luck it hasn't gone so soft that it will collapse under the weight of the roof (I think I should have baked it a couple of minutes more than I did - alas, too late for that now).

And now, I'm off to buy a present + find myself some coloured paper so I can make some Christmas hearts for the guerilla Xmas decorations for the train station. Yay me !