Project 24 – Christmas Day 2012

Wow, what a fantastic turnout for this Project 24.
Thank you all for participating.
May we all enjoy a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful New Year –

 – Karen

1am -Cindi, Florida” Icicle lights. It was raining hard at the time.

 We were in a tornado and thunderstorm watch. “
2am – Mark, Sabine River
“A crew member sits outside the door, phone in hand,

alone with his thoughts, sending Christmas greetings home”


3am – Kate, Denver, Colorado
“The emptiness and silence of new snow on a sleeping city, Christmas morning.”

4am – Ms. Anthropy, Texas
 “After an evening spent in a house full of people, twelve of them young, hyper kids,
I’m exhausted. I plan to spend the rest of Christmas day recuperating.
I survived another one and I’m relieved it’s over.”
5am – Vicki, somewhere in the South 
Not what I had planned to send but we have no power from ice/snow
and I took this pic of Froto this morning on my phone.”
(A+ for effort, Vicki!)

 
6am – Cheyenne, rural Alberta, Canada
“Chores Christmas morning……-26C”

7am – JP, Connecticut
“Christmas Blessed”
8am – Karen, Connecticut
“Our living room, with a dusting of snow outside for a perfect
Christmas morning.  The Mr. and I waited patiently for our grown and
almost grown children to wake up and let the festivities begin.”

 
9am – Saara, New Finland
“Just planning to get up after yesterdays Christmas celebration.
 (In Finland we celebrate Christmas at 24th and the Christmas Day is usually really silent,
slow and lazy – we do nothing, just rest and eat well.)”

10am – Andy,  North Carolina
“Brunch at Moms
11am- Tim, Connecticut 
We were still waiting for the grandchildren and our kids to arrive.”

 
12 noon – Diane, Blue Ridge Mountains
Just a bulb on the monkey tree glowing at noon.
 It was a dreary day but we ate well and made it through”.

1pm – Sally, Florida

“Enjoying the great-grands and reminiscing”….

2pm – Vicky, Minnesota
“Classic Minnesota cold and frosty Christmas Day.
It was -12 when we awoke! Definitely stings the toes and bites the nose!!”

3pm – Diane, Florida
“Our little snowman’s first trip to the Ocean! Canaveral National Seashore”
4pm – Karen, This Old House, Connecticut 
“Table set for Christmas Dinner.  Feeling very blessed
to be able to put good food on the table and share it with family”.  

5pm -Deborah, Minnesota 
“It’s the small things that get you through :’) “
6pm – Kate – Chronicles of a Country Girl,  Maryland
“Taken just after dinner, this is my niece Colleen. Her dad is my husband’s younger brother. We always have Christmas dinner at my in-laws home in NJ. They are from England so we have Christmas crackers and we wear these lovely paper hats during dinner and read all the bad jokes that come from the crackers. It’s wonderful.”  

7pm – Joey, Connecticut 
JOY takes it’s form in many ways on this Christmas day…but also, every day. 
 You only need to seek it out and catch it.”

8pm – Joan, New Jersey
“Unfortunately an uninvited bug was one of my gifts today
and so the first picture is pretty much how I spent Christmas.”
My dad was a police officer in Newark NJ and worked for awhile in the emergency squad. The guys would busy themselves with projects between emergency calls. This was one of them. That 5 ft Santa was drawn on thick plyboard by my dad in 1956. He brought ours home and my mother and I painted it… it took almost a week to finish him. I love how the buttons are on the wrong side, and I love that it’s probably the only project the 3 of us did together…but most of all I love that Santa looks just like my dad. This is a family treasure and we all love him.”

9pm – Kate, British Columbia
“My life on Christmas Day…unfortunately I came down with that horrible flu
that seems to be going around and spent most of Christmas Day and all of Boxing Day in bed. 
 I crawled out of bed long enough to take a picture, crawled back in and that was Christmas!”
10pm – Beth, Wisconsin –
“This photo is just a tiny part of the best gift I  received on Christmas day.” 

11pm – Nancy, Wyoming 
Looking through the quiet house last night for my 11 p.m. slot I came across this and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. One of our grandsons thought the undecorated tree made a good nest for this ostrich beanie baby. Not the dreamy after Christmas photo I had planned, but it certainly represents The holiday this particular year! And it was taken with my new iPad, a nice surprise from my sweetie of 46 years!”

Midnight – Sandra , Virginia-
“Knitting…and knitting my life back together.”

Project 24 – October 31st, 2012

1am – Ms. Anthropy,  Texas.

2am –  Mark –  ” Gulf of Mexico, latitude 2753 N / Longitude 9656 W”

3am –  Cindi –  “Haunted Dog”

4am –  Diane, Blue Ridge Mountains – ” Bored out of my skull at 4AM and so I sit at the computer… isn’t that what everyone does at 4AM on Halloween?”

4am (2) – Deborah, Minnesota 

5am –  Sandra – “Morning Meet-up”

6am – Kate –  “Our border collie, George asleep on the couch with one of his toys. He opened his eyes just before I took the shot. Then I went to the kitchen to get my coffee. It was my first day back to work since we heard the hurricane was coming and I was glad to have things begin to feel like they were back to normal.”

 
7am –   This Old House  -Connecticut….    “Breakfast”

8am –  Jodi, Oregon –  “The porch just before daylight arrived”

9am –   Saara – “Sandy is on the front pages in Finland too.”

10am – Cheyenne –  “White, Rural Alberta, Canada”

11am –  (oops, missing entry)

NOON –  Diane, Ashville, NC –  “Autumn Snow Blankets the Blue Ridge Mountains”

 
1pm –  Lynn, Connecticut  –  “Walking Miss Daisy”

2pm –  Beth – “An afternoon of reading in my Zen room”

3pm –  Tim, Connecticut –This picture is nothing special, but this is what I was concerned about and focused on, on the 31st”

4pm –  Joey,  Connecticut –  “Empathizing with my friends who still have no power”

5pm –  Connie – “A quick dinner of left-over pot roast with carrots and potatoes … and lots of gravy.”

6pm –  Denise – California  “”Sparrows getting a drink before bedtime”

7pm –  Hilary –  Upstate, New York –

7pm (2) … Vicky  “Jack’s first Trick or Treat time!”


8pm – (stand-in for missing entry)  This Old House – Connecticut – “Um… men at work?”

9pm – Kelly –  “This is my youngest son who is 8. Clearly Halloween is exhausting!”

10pm (stand-in for missing entry)  –  This Old House, Connecticut
 “Purple Pimp…or something else entirely?!

11pm –  (oops.. forgotten entry)

MIDNIGHT  – Janet, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

Still waiting….

 There are six participants I am still waiting to hear from with their entries for Project 24 –

Cait – 11am
Tim – 3pm
Denise – 6pm
Tia – 8pm
Sandy – 10pm
Joan – 11pm.

 Hilarious fact… the “hideous” hours were filled with ease!

 If you forgot to get the shot, no problem at all – just let me know.   I’ve gotten some terrific entries… wait till you see what we’ve all put together!  I’ll definitely do this again –

Project 24 Reminder!

Remember… Halloween! October 31st – 12 midnight to 12 midnight
You’ve all got your assignment…
Read a few posts back for list of participants.. minus the few who have signed up since.
Take whatever strikes you.. just one pic.. in your environment at your time slot.
It can be an outdoor scene, a person doing something,
an inside shot, an outside shot..
your morning cup of coffee…
an event in town, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Give me a brief caption under the photo. No more than a sentence,
 but it can even be just two or three words… up to you.
Let me know the state you are located in too.
You can add town/city only if you want to.
Send it to me ASAP, and as soon as I have all entries I’ll post them.
karenthisoldhouse@hotmail.com
Thanks to all of you who are joining in.
I LOVE WHEN THAT HAPPENS 🙂 

We’re awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Sandy –

so far, very dark skies, heavy mist and small gusts of wind,
but she isn’t here yet.

Can you believe NYC has closed down their public transportation.. buses, subways, etc?
I grew up in NY, I don’t think that’s ever happened.
Our Governor is saying “We’ve never seen this kind of storm in our lifetime”.
Ugh.
I’m worried about the barn and horses, chickens and coop.

Wish us luck!