It's quietly winter

and I know I haven't done a good job of keeping up with this blog. But then, I haven't done a good job of keeping up with a lot of things!
I have gotten most of Christmas packed away. I still have one tree up ... my red-and-white tree in the den. I just love that tree, I gaze at it every night before going to sleep. The pictures are still on the wall (because the bed was moved and the "regular" pictures are in a box under the bed). A few large nutcrackers and one house are still on the stairs, just waiting to be taken up.
Lots of boxes are upstairs, in neat stacks, all numbered. I have a master list saved (I should print it out, plus save to a flash drive) of what's in each box .. even non-Christmas ones.
We got lucky, had one great weekend, and all of the outside stuff got taken down and packed away.

I started out saying "quietly winter" ... but it's now March, and not exactly "quiet". We've had more snow this winter. It snowed 3 times, which is unusual for here. We've had an extraordinary run of below average cold days ... the quiet factor, I guess, is the just staying inside, mostly back in the den with a quilt and a book.

Soon, one more week maybe, it will be time for the snowmen to make way for spring.