The holidays: swimming weather vs. walking weather
According to the Canada geese on the pond, that is.
Christmas Eve:
!["Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama, Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go?"o/~ Swimming weather!](https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/100_0826-300x199.jpg)
Swimming weather!
And Christmas Day:
![Ice Road Truckers! Walking weather](https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/100_0833-199x300.jpg)
Walking weather
Better have some cleats on your Wellies.
But how lovely to spend the holidays up in our unofficial New Hampshire vacation home (translation: cat-sitting for friends while they travel).
Plus: quite close to Boston, allowing a visit with Genrette Laurie J. Marks, and her wife Deb Mensinger.
Deb is the friend who had a liver transplant, last January — and some of you participated in the auction to raise money for medical expenses, for which Deb and everyone who knows her are very grateful.
Look, here’s a porch that she sanded and painted and everything:
![Plus: lighted garlands All painted up and pretty.](https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/100_0842-199x300.jpg)
All painted up and pretty.
Other people did the rest of the house, but Deb did the porch, she tells me, sanding and staining.
Here’s another view.
![whole new porch, actually.... Very xmassy](https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/100_0845-199x300.jpg)
Very xmassy
The whole house looks so pretty, after years of being at the bottom of the list of priorities, with Deb’s illness. It’s a happy place now.
Xmas dinner was excellent, and the tree gorgeous. And I was happy to meet Laurie’s niece Anna, and see Eddy Martinez again, and his mother Anita.
For New Years I CANCELLED EVERYTHING and stayed home all by my self and it was so very lovely. I needed to decompress from the DayJob That Ate Manhattan. Didn’t need extra hours in travel, and more sleeping in guest-beds. I sent the presents up north with Sabine. Instead, I watched birds, wrote, and slept, and planned my escape I mean, ways to convince superiors at work that this much overtime is not a good idea, and yes, I could go on but I shall not.
But in other news, I have two weeks vacation coming up. In other other news, they wouldn’t let me take them back-to-back, but I’ve got one in January (quite soon!!) and the other in February. Wherein Writing Shall Occur.
More later…