the orange door: unique living since 2007

Intro is here .  My favorite part of this calendar is that it acknowledges how silly and circuitous this quest has been.  FINALLY he l...

Intro is here .  Sigh. It's not going to be on the bookcase.  You'd be better off looking in those stockings. Will ...

Intro is here .  You've been reading C. Clement Moore, haven't you?  Santa will indeed come down this chimney, but not for a ...

Intro is here .  Okay, again, not a bad place to look.  But it's not here either.   I kind of like the portrait above the f...

Intro is here .  Ah, we get ever closer to the Christmas date and "He" bear is wasting time in the kitchen!  It's not in...

Intro is here .  I'm all for looking for Christmas in the cookie jar.  Did "He" bear  not find it?  Maybe the cooki...

Intro is here .  I always thought this was the maid doing the cooking, like Alice in the Brady Bunch.  But maybe that's "He...

Intro is here . (note stylin' red thread.) Oh, "He" bear,  you are so very, very close. Don't you see it in the ...

Intro is here .  Who is that bear in the bathtub?  It looks exactly like our bear, minus the ribbon. Is he staring at his own self?...

Intro is here .  Again, a good place to look for presents, but not for Christmas.  Maybe if someone introduced "He", the b...

Intro is here .  Oh "He" bear, how did you get on the roof?  Should you really be out there, you with your tiny brain?  I...

Intro is here .  Ah-ha!  So now we know that rooms are assigned!  And "He" bear has been exiled to the attic.  And someone...

Intro is here . Why hello random stray piece of thread.  Welcome to Decembear 12. Again, odd place to look.  Maybe it's becau...

Intro is here . I like that they have a playroom, but only two bedrooms.  Counting "He" there are nine bears pictured on t...

Intro is here .   Again with the generic.  The dresser drawers?  Just whose drawers are those?  Probably not "He" bear,...

Intro is here .    I'm interested in the nonspecific pronoun.  "The" bedroom closet?  Just who is the usual occupant of...

Intro is here .   Maybe "He" Bear's family routinely hides things behind grandfather clocks?  And maybe "He"...

Intro is here . Whew!  After seven days of wandering outside with only a bow to keep him warm, "He" bear finally makes it inside...

Intro is here And here is where I lose all respect for "He" bear. He has been looking on the front porch for an entire da...

Intro is here . Much like my shoddy 12-year-old construction technique, some of these pictures are blurry.  Much like my lazy pre-adolesc...