~ The Day After Christmas ~

Hello

friends & folk!

an early evening post for you today...

a quiet, peaceful posting

after the hustle-bustle has gone away for another year ~

our little family enjoyed Shepherd's Pie for a comfort-food dinner, 

 ~ then watched old movies and classic Christmas comedies too!

Our temps here in this part of Virginia are mild ...

...  really mild ~ 60's and bright sunshine today ~

I cleaned the bathrooms, hung the laundry in the fresh breeze outside to dry

and even began my yearly purge of my sewing room ~

all with these old wavy glass windows open to let in the clean air.

I even undecorated a bit,

packing away the more 'Christmas-y' things,

and leaving more of my 'Winter-y' things out...

Every year, I force a white hyacinth bulb on my kitchen windowsill ~

the promise of longer days with every morning's sunrise!  

this window overlooks out onto the back woods behind our beloved farmhouse ~

the woods are deep and the trickling of the creek can be heard after a heavy rain.

our deer and bird friends usually visit us here

and I love watching them while washing the supper dishes ~

 

Now that the house is quiet again, 

{seems too quiet now that the kids and our grand-pups have gone}

I'll take advantage of the stillness...

~ then I will make a simple supper and sit down to stitch.

 

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori