The HOLIDAYS are fast approaching...

I'll be pulling out all those boxes soon, that's right the dreaded Christmas decorations and strings of lights.  The stores have been stocking the shelves for the last month...YIKES!!!  I have been in a semi-panic, until yesterday when I bought my first batch of the endless batches of decorations to add to the mix of past years. I don't know why I do this...honestly last years decorations were used for a few weeks.  When I open the boxes, I have no idea what I will find, it's a surprise...laughing.  The whole month of November is spent getting the house and yard ready for the Annual Johnston Holiday Open House.  I think this year will be year 10...or 11 either way it has become a event that Bruce and I love hosting for our friends.  I can't say what we will be serving this year because it's always a surprise!!!  A very delicious surprise to say the least. 

Bruce and I will be out boughing this week gathering the forest foliage for our planters and barrels and window boxes. I love dressing up like a lumber jack and foraging in the wilds. I am excited about the prospect of the arrival of some Ponderosa Pine boughs coming, big long fluffy branches...incredible.  Ponderosa Pine grows around Clinton BC and a friend is going down to forage some and offered to forage some for us...I could hardly say NO.  I use to go down to Lillooet to collect pine cones and after 10 years I am swimming in them...laughing.  I still need to order the wreaths.

Let's talk WREATHS...I just so happen to live down the road of the best "artesian wreath maker" this side of the Rocky Mountains...go to www.moosemeadowsfarm.ca and order your Christmas wreath today, you will not be disappointed!!!  They are absolutely beautiful, I have ordered them each year for my house and they last until Valentines Day and longer...laughing.  Heloise and her crew do a amazing job each year and the quality never varies it is consistent.  They do ship across Canada...and the NWT, Yukon, NV.  Check out the website I have added to my blog.



Grow, Harvest, Cook, Eat and Let it Snow

Jenn