Let the Light In
We love having our windows open in the spring/summer/fall, so we keep screen in them. They’re wonderful for keeping bugs out, but they do take away some of the light that would shine through the window.
Usually Mr Chiots and I take the screens out of the windows when the weather turns too cold to keep the windows open. I spend the afternoon cleaning all the windows so that as much light as possible comes through the windows during those cold, dark winter months. This year we got busy and forgot to take them out until last week.
I don’t know if you can tell in this photo, but the screen was left in on the left window and taken out on the right. It does make a huge difference (hard to capture). It’s kind of cold, but the first warm sunny day above freezing we have I’ll be out washing windows to make it even brighter inside. The screens are up in the attic, they’ll be washed next spring before going back in the windows.
Do you take the screens out of your windows or leave them in?
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Quote of the Day: Harlan Miller
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~Harlan Miller
I’m sad to see Christmas has come and gone. We had to work on Saturday so we didn’t get to enjoy our usual day after Christmas traditions. We did take part of yesterday off though to relax and take in a little more of the season. I think one of the things I love this time of year is the peacefulness of it. Even though we’re still very busy this time of year, it seems easier to take time off here and there for family celebrations and for ourselves.
What part of the holidays would you jar up for the rest of the year?
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The Suspense Was Killing Me
On Thursday I wrote about my niece’s homemade gift to my dad.
After many great guesses, I figured a photo of Hannah and her inspiration would be fitting.
It’s Beatrice, her guinea pig made out of salt dough. My dad loves it of course, because it was made with love by his granddaughter.
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The Day After
I hope all of you who celebrate had a wonderful Christmas yesterday! Mr Chiots and I keep Christmas Day for ourselves, just us two, it’s our family day. For the past 8 years we’ve watched vintage James Bond movies all day. We usually get up and have a big breakfast, yesterday we had french toast. We celebrated by having an extra cup of coffee! We decided to play some video games instead of watching Bond. I’m sure most people don’t think of me as a video game player, but I spent the afternoon with Mr Chiots playing Diablo II. My video game self is much different than my real self, I’m currently a level 34 Barbarian, I wield a maul instead of a shovel.
We finished the evening off with dinner and a movie. Dinner was a delicious local meal of venison pot roast, from Mr Chiot’s own deer, with potatoes from the garden, carrots and onions from the farmer’s market. The movie was The Soloist, which was great. We enjoyed a simple day at home and it was lovely.
How did you spend Christmas day?
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Merry Christmas From Chiot’s Run
Since I don’t have all your addresses and mailing out cards to everyone that read would cost a fortune, I’m sending out Christmas Wishes to all of you on my blog. Here’s the card we sent out the family & friends this year. I bought a few cookie cutters from Cincinnati Cake & Candy Supplies and baked up a batch of sweetness for our cards. After a few hours of baking (and eating cookies) we snapped a few photos and our Christmas postcard was off to the printers. I would tell you where we got them printed, but since I wasn’t too happy with their service, no blog love for them.
We got our cards finished a little later than usual. We were waiting for snow so we could make a short Christmas movie card (since that’s what we do), but we got no snow. So we had to make up a card late in the season.
Merry Christmas from all of us here at Chiot’s Run!
