it’s beginning to look a lot like christmas…

OK, as of a couple of days ago, the guys were working on adding the cables to the deck railing. It was shockingly cold: –2, according to the control panel for the heat exchanger. I loaned Michael my balaclava, which he proceeded to fill with cooties.

By the end of the week, they’d gotten three cables on one side of the decking. Two more sides to go, seven cables per side. They also fiddled with the support railing at the bottom, along the stairs.

We put up a tree, as noted earlier. It’s slightly crooked, but that’s not the tree’s fault, that’s our fault. Presents are slowly accumulating under it. Tomorrow, Santa will go shopping for more goodies.

The cats think that surely, I have something more interesting to do than sit at the computer. They haven’t been outside in a couple of days (they’ll go out if it’s cold, so long as there’s plenty of sun; no luck lately). So they’re bored.