T Stands for the Holiday Season

Hi everyone. It's time for our first T day of December. I know it's been December for a few days already, but I'm still surprised it is once again the holiday season. It doesn't seem all that long ago that I picked up and put away the holiday decorations. Now I've taken them all out again. 😏

Last week I had a few things going on, and one of them was decorating my house for Christmas.

I bought one of these little retro trees last Christmas because it made me think of my grandmother. She used to have one of these trees. The 2 little Snoopy pieces on either side of it were from my daughter. When she first moved out we would get her a piece or two for Christmas each year. I guess we couldn't remember all the ones we bought because we happened to get her these 2 twice.  😜

Over Thanksgiving weekend my husband and I went to the Christmas tree farm in my town and cut down our tree.

One thing I like about going to the Christmas tree farm is that it is up on the Ridge, a part of my town that sits  higher in elevation than most of the rest of the area At the ridge top there is a beautiful mountain view. It doesn't photograph very well because to get the whole view it looks too tiny and to get a partial view it doesn't look very outstanding. Here's one of those partial views. It's what you see as you head  down the road.

The white peak in almost the center of the photo is Mount Washington, the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is 6288.2 feet/ 1916.6 meters tall. Not tall as far as many mountains go but it still has some of the worst weather conditions in the United States. It holds the record for the highest wind speed not associated with a tornado/cyclone or hurricane. In 1934 a wind speed of 231 miles/hour/ 372 km/hour was recorded. The top of the mountain, as you can tell from the snow on it, is much colder than  other mountain tops in the area.

Speaking of snow, this morning (Monday 12/4) I woke up to some more snow. This is the view out of my bedroom window looking down onto the road.

We didn't get a lot of snow, and it will probably disappear if it stays at  our current temperature. I needed to shovel this time however.😒 It does make it really feel like Christmas. 🎄

Last week while out running errands  I also made a stop at a small market in my town. This is a specialty market, more of a meat, prepared meal, bakery and beer/wine market. They're actually associated with the one restaurant in my town. They had a couple of interesting beers displayed on the top of the meat coolers, and since it's T day, let me share them.

This St. Bernadus beer is next to a normal sized beer bottle. If I had a lot of money to kill, I think I would throw a party and  try it, but at $250, I just took a photo.

My budget would prefer to try this beer as it's holiday appropriate in a silly way. 

Instead of buying beer,  I made myself a big mug of tea when I got home. My mug isn't empty, but I had drank half of it before I decided to set up a photo with it under my tree. This is my ticket to T this week over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

You might remember I bought a holiday tea sampler from Bigelow Tea Company awhile back. I still have a couple of flavors left to try, but  I really like is this one. It's a warm, wintry spice mix as you can probably guess from the name. (This is a photo I took off the internet, not my sampler box.)

I've also still been knitting up a storm. I haven't shown you my sweater for a couple of weeks, so here's where I'm at.

I've just gotten to the point where I've added the sleeves to my body and have started the yoke. It's knitted in the round (so no pearling), and I've just started the colored part that will form the upper sweater. 

Now that I'm into the final phase,  I'm really excited to finish my sweater. I'd love to say I've finished it by Jan, 1, and hopefully I will. The yoke requires quite a few rows of patterned knitting.  Let's see what happens as this month gets rolling along.

That's all for me this week for T. Right now my calendar for this week is empty until Saturday. No appointments nor scheduled fun time with friends. What's the chance it will stay that way? Hopefully 100%. I'm so excited to not have to be anywhere, but I do have a long to do list of things around the house to fill my time. 😏

Have a great T day and week ahead.