Snow Scene
A few Christmasses ago, chosen-sis flung me $30 and told me to go to the Dollar Store and pick up a bunch of Christmassy decorations, figurines, and other silliness to spam the house with for the benefit of her mother.
I came back with stuff that we could apply to windows, garland we could string around the apartment, many small figurines, and a bag of fake snow. After I explained to sis what I was doing with the figurines and the snow, she left me to it, as the cats supervised.
I took one of the breakfast-in-bed trays that sat unused, the dark wood one with the high sides, and immediately emptied the fake plastic bits of snow into it. I then began making a homey town scene with the figurines, arranging the caroling kids so that they were facing the “street” (I simply cleared away a swath of “snow” so that the dark wood tray was shining through), passersby and other kids walking along the road, trees and buildings lining the street, a couple service vehicles parked along the side. My one nod to silliness was making the tiny dog lay on its side behind the mailtruck, looking as if it’d been run over. There was one figurine of a little boy running with a big “:O” face, so of course I had to put that in front of the mailtruck. I can never be 100% serious, apparently.
I heard from sis later that one, or perhaps both, of her cats had disturbed the tableau I’d so patiently created. I laughed way too hard, imagining a giant cat laying siege to a winter wonderland. She reported that some of the “snow” had left the sanctity of the tray and had been spread along the table, figurines, tiny trees, and buildings laying supine in the cat’s wake. *snickers* “Monsteh Kitteh Invades Pleasanttown!”, a movie going straight to DVD.
Just a random holiday-themed memory that makes me grin.
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