Christmas Tide Rolls In

Advent Sunset

I managed to get all of my remaining working Christmas light strings (some of these go back to the 1970's) strung out along the hedge next to our front windows and the remaining strands wrapped around one of the two large ash trees in the front
yard by the First Sunday of Advent.

A few of the old 1970's Christmas lights
wrapped around the frontyard ash tree

The Interior of the house got a later start and a minor Christmas Season decorating treatment just before Christmas Eve and the hoped-for arrival of St. Nick himself.

 Our 'whispering pine' came home from the traditional Kadee Christmas Tree Farm and was placed in its spiffy new tree stand.  Getting it to fit and sit upright is a balancing act.  After several iterations, we had her straight and proper, moved the stand into the dining room corner - a new location for our tree, made possible by our new kitchen and the subsequent furniture rearrangement that placed the hutch formerly in the dinning room, into our remodeled kitchen.

We now had room to place the shiny and bedazzling Christmas gifts under the boughs of the decorated tree.

Now the house is all fancy and decorated for Christmas.  Let us celebrate with a good meal and a bottle of wine.

Merry Christmas.