MY BLUE CHRISTMAS PART II

Hi! 
Did you get a chance to have a cup of Nog? Maybe a latte or a cup of tea.

Well grab another, it's time for

~My Blue Christmas Part II~
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If you missed Part I
click here
As mentioned before we are traveling...not decorating.
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I dug through pictures that I had taken before I started blogging. These are from 2009, I think!
The color scheme is still Blue, White and Silver.

Dining Room Table

PACKING IN CHRISTMAS!!

Many of you know that we were away for Christmas!

So the decorating was slim around here!

I decorated the kitchen chandy with my

 Norman Rockwell Cameo Collecton.

There were nine ornaments in the series depicting Santa from a first appearance through his exhausted finale on Christmas Night. The series ran from 1980 through 1988.

I really restricted my decoration to the breakfast area so of course I decorated the sideboard.

Everything is packed up til next year. I will soon share how the sideboard looks now. I am not quite satisfied with it yet.

We left here and traveled to Tennessee and Illinois.

We had a great time with family and friends.

We passed around the egg nog and the upper respitory infections. Much of the time I was wearing a surgical mask.

And No, I did not get a picture of that!

Here are a few pics I did get!

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TENNESSEE

All of these figures are animated and musical. My grandson Jon and I loved to get them all going at once.

Drove my sweet SIL crazy!

Hollie made this beautiful card holder. I meant to get a pic of the sweet advent calender she made. 
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ILLINOIS

Kim has been really ill the last six weeks so I was not allowed to take pics inside.

She did a total renovation on the outside this summer.

I think it looks so pretty. This was the extent of her Christmas decor. You can see it was a strange holiday for us but at least the meaning was not lost upon us.

We have each other and we are blessed.

I will share the total renovation later

Above is her office and guest house. 

This is where we stay when we visit. 

The field you see was the cornfield

below.

Hey, we're from Savannah!

This IS SNOW and it counts!

Well, we are home and everyone is feeling better.

I have been busy listing new items in the

ETSY- SAVANNAH SECRET CELLAR

Be sure to visit and see what's new!

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Time To Cool Down!

 It is sweltering in Savannah this time of year!

Everyone is looking for a way to keep cool!

I thought this might be a good time to review our 

50th anniversary tour of Alaska.

Grab a glass of iced tea and

 come along, you might find it refreshing.

Mendenhall Glacier

This was my third visit, in 25 years, to Mendenhall Glacier, Tongass National Forest, near Juneau, AK. I can attest to the fact that the glacier is receding. I don't know why. It might be natural cyclical environmental patterns or manmade global warming (I will let others debate that) but it is indeed receding. I wish my earlier pictures were digital. We have held our pictures side by side and we can surely tell the difference.

My oldest daughter Kim and me.

Sweet Old Bob was experiencing health problems during this time so our daughter went with us. Shortly after the trip Bob had brain surgery. His health has improved greatly and

he gets along very well now. For that we are very thankful.

Glacier Bay

Margerie Glacier is 1 mile wide and 800 feet high from sea level to the top

Preparing to leave on a flight over Juneau Ice Fields, from Skagway.

Put your iced tea on the traytable, 

buckle up and enjoy the ride .

These are not super highways in the mountains, they are glaciers.

We are coming back down into Skagway.

You can see the terminus of a glacier at the upper left. The gray water is called "rock water" due to the amount of ground rock suspended in the water.

Don't you feel refreshed now? I knew you would! I hope you enjoyed the tour. Refill your iced tea, put your fingers on the keyboard and leave a comment to let me know you took the tour. Thanks for visiting.


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