It's Beginning...

...to look a lot like

Christmas.

As you may know, I collect Santas.
I'm trying to control this, and only get ONE each year.

Here's this year's.
It's a Jim Shore design.  I like his whimsical figures.
The birds and birdhouses fit in with my other obsession of gardening.

 I like to find Santas when we're on trips.
This one was found in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, this fall.

Add to the collection...add to the memories of the find.

Hope your holiday preparations are coming along smoothly.

Happy Gardening...
~~Linda~~

Getting Back to Normal...

Or, at least what counts as 'Normal' here.

I finally got the house DE-Christmased.

Have I told you I collect Santas?

I have quite a few.

You have how many?!?

Well, I'm not sure.  I didn't take time to count.

This isn't even all of them.

But, what I wanted to show you, is this one.

He's one of my favorites.  Santa taking a time out to watch the birds.

Isn't he cute?

He's all set, with his boots, binoculars and a book to look up the names of birds he spys.

He's so busy watching for birds, he misses those on the chair.

This little guy is taking advantage of that.

Or, is it just that he lets them join him in his comfy chair?

Looks like a fun break. 

They're all wrapped up in their tissue and bubble wrap, and stacked to ceiling in the cubby in the garage.

Wonder how many I missed this year.  There are always some..... 

OK...back to getting back to normal.  There's always something else to do.

Have a great day...

~~Linda~~