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Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Don't think about it. Just do it!
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Good Morning!
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The Festival of Northern Lights is a large award-winning display of Christmas lights in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. The celebration runs from mid November into January and it attracts 20,000 people each year. The Festival is a brainchild of Marie Walpole in 1987.

Approximately 25 kilometers of light strings and 400 lighted designs are displayed at the harbour, along the Sydenham River's course through town, on city streets and in parks like Harrison Park. It has been named one of the top 100 festivals in Ontario for 2009 by Festivals and Events Ontario, an industry organization.

In its 21st year in 2008 it was gradually converted to LED lights from traditional incandescent lights out of respect for the environment. This effort aimed to reduce operating costs allowing the festival operators to expand the magnitude of the festival. Because it can be viewed while driving, the annual display was erected in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. The following year communities were allowed to decide to hold public events or not and Owen Sound held its customary opening Santa Claus parade.

Parents who viewed the displays as children bring their own offspring to view them.

Good morning, Trissie, and thank you for starting is off with such a cheerful festival.

Laura, thank you for the explanation of jello salad!

L.Ann, are you getting up early to go Black Friday shopping as usual this year?

Today I'm meeting DF PL for coffee at the community shop. The forecast is supposed to be dry and reasonably mild, so I would also like to feed my pots on the patio. It would also be good to get the rest of the ingredients for the Christmas cake weighed out9xed.up and in the oven. And there are lots of admin type jobs that really need to be done today. DH has choir practice this evening, so could I wrap a few presents then? I really need to work on my shoebox as that's due in a couple of weeks. And the next couple of weeks are also going to be busy, so whatever I can get done this weekend would be good!

Today's list:

Cuddles on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
QT
Physio exercises
Up, shower, personal care and dress
All cats fed
Take Freddie out? ( If he wants to go!)
Breakfast and meds /supplements -me
Rubbish down to bins
Go for my walk
Run hoover round downstairs?
Quick dust sitting room?
Garden time - can I feed pots? A little deadheading?
Lunch
Delicate /wool wash
Clean shoes
Polish bag
Fold laundry and PA
Clean sheets and towels out of the airing cupboard
Does DH have choir practice?
Cats' supper
Our supper
Bed at a reasonable time!

Extras:
10 am meet DF PL for coffee at community shop
Weigh out I ingredients for Christmas cake
Mix everything together and add soaked dried fruit
Spoon into prepared cake tin and bake!
Start work on shoebox?
Banking- look at standing orders
Ring bank re query
Message MD about women's breakfast- can we meet at our community shop? ( dog friendly)
Message MD about Christmas lunch - 25 of us, send pictures of crackers so she knows colour scheme. Can we have fairy lights round the font?
Feed pots on patio (weather permitting!)
Healthspan order
Clinique order
Animed order (dried food Jude, wet food Freddie. Anything else?)

Happy Friday!

I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving, or at least a good Thursday if you don't observe Thanksgiving or your date for it is different
We don't observe it, so it was just a Thursday with all of its Thursday madness, and today is Friday, with its Friday business, and it's less than 4 weeks till Christmas and I am trying to not freak out about it so I am concentrating in my mind on Festival of Northern Lights Friday instead of Freak Out Because Christmas is Coming Friday
Working from home, if I apply the butt glue dissolvent now, I can squeeze in at least 30 minutes of cleaning before I need to log in!

kittykatt, the Christmas preps are picking up speed, aren't they?

TaDas
- morning madness
- snacks for kids
- permission slip for DBD
- dressed to shoes
- kids and DH off the door
- started a load of wool

ToDos
- morning routine
- 30 on cleaning
- get started on work

Braindump
work
- SB materials
- BoD excerpts
- BoD tasks - record in excel
- BoD agenda for December
- final proofreading of A-guideline
- reply to RL re: draft D-affidavit?
- reply to T re: defitions
- save F&P testing paperwork already received
- mailbox work
- start working on IDD research
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
- make doughs for cookies
organization
- status update - warranty claim on vacuum cleaner
- call re: wrong printer cartridge delivered
- email to school
- call seller re: do they have power of attorney yet?
- house insurance status?
- rework contract with DS14's therapist
- review meds and order
- book order
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- 15 on filing
cleaning
- mop kitchen
- clean living room
- clean office
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of cleaning rags
- load of lights
- load of colors
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
House&Holidays - I kinda really should do something about it
- week 1 deep cleaning - office
- week 3 deep cleaning - DBD's room
- week 5 deep cleaning - DS14's room
- week 6 deep cleaning - twins' room
- week 7 deep cleaning - master bathroom
- week 9 deep cleaning - living bathroom
- week 10 deep cleaning - kitchen
- week 11 deep cleaning - pantry
- week 13 deep cleaning - storage spaces
- week 2 Christmas tasks
- week 3 Christmas tasks
- week 4 Christmas tasks
- week 5 Christmas tasks
- week 6 Christmas tasks
- week 7 Christmas tasks
- week 8 Christmas tasks
- week 9 Christmas tasks
- week 10 Christmas tasks
- week 11 Christmas tasks
- week 12 Christmas tasks
- week 13 Christmas tasks

Trissie, you're right! This week I've gone from "There's loads of time," to "There's still a month," to "There's less than four weeks and you need to make the very most of quiet days and get "ahead " with the prep, so you don't fall behind and get frazzled when things really pick up socially!"

Yesterday was just a."normal" Thursday for us too, but by starting the Christmas cake I feel I've started the Christmas baking. I just need to follow through now and actually finish things!

Good morning!

trissie ~ thank you for the start and the Northern Lights Festival info/history. Many arboretums in the US have a Winter Lights display, possibly from hearing about the original.
kitty ~ more jello salads!
• lime jello, slivered carrots, diced celery, diced pineapple - my mom's
• pistachio jello, cool whip, pineapple, walnuts - famously know as "Green Stuff."
I gave up on jello salad a long time ago because of the dyes that were in jello. I've not looked in a long time to see if they've been removed.
There are lots of other variations that have been served at the extended family gatherings when I was a kid.

Had a great time yesterday. Didn't extend myself too much on the eating, but as always, more than I should've. But, it was delicious! Today, we're meeting with Gary's dbro & wife driving over from Ohio. We'll have a late lunch, chat, and then drive home later afternoon. Also going to run over to the family farm property that's in the process of being sold. G wants to see all the building progress that's going on.

Okies... gotta scoot! Have a good one!

Thank you for the jello salad information, Smilelee! I hope you have a lovely lunch.

I weighed out the dry ingredients for the Christmas cake before met DF PL for coffee. When I got back home at midday, I mixed everything together, spooned the mixture into the tin, decorated the top with nuts, and it's now baking in the oven. It's going to take a long time to bake right through, so I'll take the timer with me when I go out in my garden after lunch. We've had a dry sunny morning, and although it's clouding over a bit now, I'm hoping it will still stay dry.

Today's list:

Cuddles on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
QT
Physio exercises
Up, shower, personal care and dress
All cats fed
Take Freddie out? ( If he wants to go!)
Breakfast and meds /supplements -me
Rubbish down to bins
Go for my walk
Run hoover round downstairs?
Quick dust sitting room?
Garden time - can I feed pots? A little deadheading?
Lunch
Delicate /wool wash
Clean shoes
Polish bag
Fold laundry and PA
Clean sheets and towels out of the airing cupboard
Does DH have choir practice? Yes!
Cats' supper
Our supper
Bed at a reasonable time!

Extras:
10 am meet DF PL for coffee at community shop
Weigh out ingredients for Christmas cake
Mix everything together and add soaked dried fruit
Spoon into prepared cake tin and bake!
Start work on shoebox?
Banking- look at standing orders
Ring bank re query
Message MD about women's breakfast- can we meet at our community shop? ( dog friendly)
Message MD about Christmas lunch - 25 of us, send pictures of crackers so she knows colour scheme. Can we have fairy lights round the font?
Feed pots on patio (weather permitting!)
Healthspan order
Clinique order
Animed order (dried food Jude, wet food Freddie. Anything else?)
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