Lemony Zest :: Kim Lewandowski

Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category

Happy New Year! Yeah, I know, it’s two weeks old already. I haven’t been feeling great lately, so I haven’t been doing a lot of cooking. Dan’s been doing most of the cooking the last couple of weeks, and it’s been great! Way to go!

Anyway, here’s a photo from our trip to the Mayan Riviera in, I think it was, late 2001? Just to warm you up on a cold day.

Keep an eye on Santa Claus – he’s heading our way!

NORAD Tracks Santa

This is part of a neighbor’s porch, decorated for Christmas. I heard the owners used to be either set decorators or shop window decorators in New York City.

Last weekend, I was a hostess at one of the homes on the Holiday Home Tour our neighborhood civic league, the Port Norfolk Civic League in Portsmouth, Va., puts on as a fundraiser every year. Below is one of the homes on the tour – Culpeppers Boat Rental and the family’s home.

It’s an interesting building – the front is the store of a boat-rental operation where people can rent small boats for crabbing or fishing and behind it is living quarters for the family that owns the shop. It was really cute inside and they had a case of interesting antique fishing tackle, among other goodies.

A St. Patrick’s Day wish for you:

May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two,
May the sun always shine on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain,
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
All the luck o’ the Irish I’m happy to send you,
With a wish that good fortune & joy may attend you!

Have a great day!

Hope you all had a great one, and here’s hoping for a great ‘08. Ours was quiet but nice.

This is a reminder for next year: Don’t get an Eastern white pine tree. The wood is too soft – it almost fell over last night. Luckily we were right there, but as we were trying to reposition it, the screws from the tree holder were digging into the soft wood. So we’ll look for a hardwood next year.