Reconstruction

"Time may change me, but I can't trace time..." David Bowie

Of course, having seven Christmas trees means you have that much more to put away when the party's over. 

Our holidays decorations are all stored in the basement, and part of the reason we have been delaying putting everything away is we wanted to take some time and store things properly this time around. Frankly, after several basement floods in the past few years, a MassSaves efficiency upgrade a few months ago and the fact that my set designer husband has often used the area as a place where sets go to die, the place has been in need of a bit of a makeover. 

That is one thing the pandemic has helped with, actually. Since March, we've slowly but surely been reorganizing this area (along with so much of this old house). Most of the set pieces have been moved over to the Shop our theater group rents out, and Corb's "Chandelier Shack" in the back of the house means 60 percent of the tools have been moved elsewhere. And while the Mass Saves project was actually more of a mess than anything else, it's saved us about $600 a month (no lie) and we did end up throwing out some stuff.

So with the long weekend, Corb and I decided to spend yesterday afternoon getting the basement into a new shape, with the creation of a new "Christmas Village" was at the top of our list. Rather than having bits of Yule spread out everywhere, everything has been centralized and is now within easy reach. 

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