Christmas Season 2024/2025: The Fifth Day of Christmas - Setting Up. Santas

  Sunday, December 29, 2024

Set out the Santa collection this morning. Also,  rewatched Christmas in Connecticut this afternoon since I fell asleep during it last night. 

It's one I didn't become familiar with until my adult years and it's become one of my most favorite Christmas movies. 

Not only is it generally a great story but the script is tight, it's perfectly cast, and the editing and pacing are fantastic.  

Originally Bette Davis was to play the lead role of Elizabeth Lane and although I'm sure she would have been fantastic it's hard for me to imagine anyone else in the part but Barbara Stanwyck. S. Z. Sakall as Uncle Felix almost steals the show. 

Tonight Dale and I watched The Family Stone on the recommendation of Noel. The movie's almost 20 years old and I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before. It was hightly watchable and well done but I don't know that it's the kind of Christmas movie you'd haul out every year to watch like Christmas In Connecticut. 

Holiday Season 2023 - Another Sick Day

Friday, December 8, 2023

Feeling a lot better but still far from 100%. Decided to take another day off from work to rest. 

Rewatched the last two thirds of Christmas In Connecticut I slept through recently. 

Moved the snowmen from the dining room to the porch to make room for the . . .

Santas.

Oh, and I listened to a lot more Xmas music today. 

Holiday Season 2019 - Dinner with Dale

Saturday, December 22, 2019

Quiet night in. Dale and I have backed off the booze (as in none) for the last couple of weeks. We've decided to allow ourselves to imbibe over the holidays but we're not gonna go nuts. We stopped by South Lyndale Liquors this afternoon since we were out of hooch. 

I had a couple martinis and Dale had wine. 

We listened to the Randy Van Horne Singers and Ultra-Lounge Christmas Cocktails Vol. 1 during cocktail hour.

For dinner we made a salmon quiche and we watched Christmas in Connecticut. 

Christmas Season 2017/2018 - Christmas In Connecticut

Thursday, January 4, 2017

Recently found my lost stash of Xmas DVDs. The first one I picked to watch was Christmas In Connecticut. As always, it was hunky dunky. 

Finally hauled these out today. Meant to have them up on Christmas Day. Better late than never I guess.

Christmas Season 2013 - Christmas in Connecticut

We watched Christmas In Connecticut last night. This is another more recent addition to our cache of Christmas movies. Barbara Stanwyck is simply fantastic in this one.

New Year's Eve 2012 - Christmas In Connecticut

I've mentioned how much busier the time leading up to Christmas was this year.  Due to this Dale and I were way behind on watching holiday movies.  One of our favorites is Christmas In Connecticut.  Unlike other Christmas themed films like Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life, Christmas In Connecticut is a movie I didn't see until well into adulthood.  It was worth the wait.  This synopsis comes from imdb.com: "Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers.  In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook.  But this is all lies.  In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg.  The recipes come from her good friend Felix.  The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on her 'farm'.  Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?"