Today's tasks include, but are not limited to: Making another batch of spiced coffee, setting up the table-top Christmas Tree (I set up the Creche & hung outdoor wreaths yesterday), water and clean up/trim all house plants, trim Bay Laurel and preserve the bay leaves for future stews and soups, make soup for supper, make some Boursin-like cheese spread, take stock of Christmas Gifts on hand and see what still needs to be purchased/made, and start addressing the Christmas Cards.
We scurried around yesterday and got all the outside stuff done. Tomato cages are in the milk house for storage. Beau chain-sawed down the asparagus patch for me, so that got mulched and now will have a nice layer of insulating snow on top. Since he had the chainsaw out, be sawed off all the grapes (they're weeds and will come back) and took out three small trees I wanted gone from the garden, pruned my shrub roses down to 18" and took out all the overhanging Lilac branches that were hitting me in the FACE when mowing. What a guy!
2" of snow so far but light and fluffy. Anywhere from 6-10" when it's done by sometime tomorrow. Snow shovel at the ready; I will do my share of the shoveling in a few rounds today and tomorrow.