1. My older daughter and her husband just returned from a vacation in Argentina where she also celebrated her 29th birthday. She was in Australia on her 27th birthday. In keeping with the tradition of spending her birthdays in areas of the southern hemisphere that begin and end with the letter A, perhaps she'll spend her 31st in Angola or Antarctica. Hopefully not. She already got to see penguins in Argentina.
2. Why is it easier to get the two pieces of a 9 1/2 foot pre-lit artificial Christmas tree down into the basement after the holiday season than it is getting it back up the following year? One of these days I might actually have some help carrying the darn thing. In the meantime, I just grab the knot of the sheet wrapped around each 75 pound piece of tree and PULL!!! The hardest thing is getting it upright to decorate it. I might be short, but with some huffing, puffing, and cursing under my breath, I do have the balls to get it done.
3. Speaking of the holidays gone wild, my 21 year old nephew has out-done himself this year and is decorating the exterior of my sister-in-law's home with 100,000 lights. Yep, that's right - 4 times more than Clark Griswold's house in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation movie!
Unlike the Griswold house, my nephew has added wiring and circuit boxes to handle the electric load. Here's a picture of his partially decorated house. There are many, many more lights beyond the range of this picture in the side and back yards that can be seen from the street.
Sometime this week he will have all the lights installed and then set to music so visitors can drive by, tune their radio to a specific station, and listen as they watch a flashing light show of red, green, and white. The small town folk here are anxiously awaiting.
4. I recently became addicted to these:
Small bits of pretzels coated with spicy pepper and large salt grains exploding in my mouth with every crunch...Fortunately they've been on sale and notice the "20% more" sign on the package. How can I resist when the dealers are practically giving it away? (BTW: This is a non-solicited, non-compensated endorsement.) I know the drill; I'll get hooked. Then they'll start making the packaging smaller and increasing the price until I'm broke and on the street begging for money to support my habit.
3 comments:
Love the house! I'm glad there are still some people who go overboard for Christmas ... for the benefit of the rest of us.
B got some of those pretzel pieces, too. I prefer the real thing.
P.S. Re: On the Road -- you are so right!
'Why is it easier to get the two pieces of a 9 1/2 foot pre-lit artificial Christmas tree down into the basement after the holiday season than it is getting it back up the following year?'
Gravity?
Isn't sleeping in a house lit with 10,000 loghts pretty problematic? Doesn't the light get - um - everywhere?
wv: hounkl
Sightings: People often think those that go overboard for the holidays are a bit nuts, yet those same people flock to the nutty homes to join in the madness.
White: The lights go out at 10 or 11 as a courtesy to the neighbors. The grand total of lights is only 85,000 per my nephew.
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