With Christmas over, it was time to start taking down decorations…a multi-day job, especially when you don’t want to do it and just want to play Super Mario Brothers on NES! Can you spot Nellie peeking over the boxes?
Once again Nellie, the white German Shepherd, makes a cameo as she traverses her way through all of the boxes
OK, now Nellie is just intentionally photo bombing me!
Piles and piles of lit garland (and no, this isn’t all of it)!
Maestro, meanwhile, has no idea what is going on, he just knows it’s stupid
We had to remove all of the garland from the staircase railings…notice the hand vacuum
This is why a hand-vac is needed. Once the garland is gone, it leaves behind its’ stain, sticking to the walls and stairs.
Don’t believe me? Check out this close-up. Ugh. Christmas
Even the grinch was a casualty of the clean-up process
The holiday ended with security chief Pat, his girlfriend, Dawn and husband Gary, and Christina and I getting together for a taste test. Brandon and Mrs. Brandon were stomach-fluing
What were we tasting? Why, of course, we had to make the best 2 dozen recipes that had been submitted for the Tahoe Blue Vodka cocktail contest! (Yes, Uber was busy this night)
To the surprise of no one, after that many samples of Tahoe Blue, the night went goofy
I leave you with this super sweet picture that my wife Christina took of our 13 ½ year old German Shepherd rescue, Nellie. It was a miracle when she was still with us so many years ago that every day is a gift, and when she poses like this, how does your heart not melt?