I know it’s a little weird to title this post after a movie that involved some Irish kid reminiscing about how everyone in his childhood died or lived tragically, but considering that Homescapes won Carmel’s “Green Ribbon of Excellence” award on Thursday and the dang trophy got broken at the store’s open house on Friday, it seemed appropriate.

Let’s just hope it’s not prophetic.

This is the time of year when everything, EVERYTHING seems to happen in the same week. Beau and I built our 14th Snowman (actually an ice sculpture resembling a snowman) over in Pacific Grove, I did the whole public-airing-of my-vocal-cords (i.e. “singing” if you can call it that) at a bunch of concerts, I schlepped stuff around the Monterey Peninsula Country Club (though to make it sound nicer I was called a Co-Chair of the committee) at the Chamber awards dinner and socialized (meaning never shut up) with all the people who came to our annual Homescapes Holiday Open House.

If you saw the invite, I had Keri elf us and beg y’all to come booze it up at the party. And Boy did ya! These parties are always a hit…maybe ’cause you like us but probably ’cause the liquor and grub are free. Actually, sometimes they’re a bit TOO popular. This year we had more than our normal share of breakage and people filling their purses with food.

But still in all…when you ask people to “Come Wine With Us!” you better not do TOO much whining! Hopefully, a good time was had by all and if you couldn’t make it, here’s to ya!

(Check some of the purses around town to sample what we served).


My style guru, Hermie the misfit elf, joins me to wish you the happiest of ‘nog-soaked Holidays!