weather reprieve

seems like we're getting a day or two of brighter skies and slightly warmer winds, making the winter seem the tiniest bit inevitable. knowing this is not true since a 15 degree day is on our heels come sunday. once again, my car was boxed in by the working trucks when i left. lots of tight maneuvering around a red pick-up bearing polish construction workers. there's a new house being built two lots away from our building and i spied eight guys pounding and drilling on the first floor this morning. busy worker bees.

in other news, i have an 11 foot christmas tree taking over my living room. it's about four feet wide and in dire need of some decoration to spice up its branches. for the first time in my memory, i got a tree with some clumps of pine cones nesting in the eves. it's a nice full number from nova scotia and i'll be glad to see all my rememberances of travel past spring up within the pine. it can be the most wonderful time of the year, indeed.