Yesterday, Thanksgiving, we set up the tree. We have an artificial tree that is strung with lights. We just have to take it out of the box, put the sections on the stand and plug each section's lights into the lower lower section's line.
Jerry rearranged the family room a bit. The chaise longue portion of the sofa got moved into the bedroom and the recliners shifted into the space that that made.
Here's the newly emptied space:
Here's the first section of the tree:
And the second:
And the last section with the lights burning:
We then paused to give thanks. Jerry's cousin moved to Las Vegas so we had to start a new Thanksgiving tradition. We fixed the whole spread for just the two of us. Jerry got us a Tofurky roast (Oh, look, it's made by Turtle Island Foods! Is that cool, or what?) that was roasted with carrots from our garden. We made dressing (from cornbread made from corn we ground ourselves), mashed potatoes (well, butter with some potatoes to keep it from being too runny), green bean casserole (what Thanksgiving dinner is complete without green bean casserole?), cranberries and French Silk pie (we haven't come down with salmonella poisoning yet).
Today we stimulated the economy at the Arts 'n Crafts fair at Bates Nut Farm. Our usual post-Thanksgiving Arts Festival wasn't done this year. Shoot!
We came home and napped. Then we decorated the tree. Here's the finished tree.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
4 comments:
Very nice! I'm thinking of hauling out all my Christmas stuff today or tomorrow. We have a tree like yours. Since all the lights are clear, I string colored lights on it, too. You have inspired me!
Purdy! Are you going to get a live tree, too?
After being in retail for three years (tomorrow is our third anniversary), we know that the holiday season is our busiest time of year. We don't decorate or put up a tree in the house, but we enjoy the displays that others have created. I guess the store is our home for the holidays, so we decorate it, instead of our halls, with boughs of holly.
Your tree is beautiful!
No, no other trees. A fake one is enough. Besides, real trees dry out and become fire hazards. But they do smell nicer than the fake ones.
When we bought this one a couple of years ago, we also bought some ScentSicles. They were supposed to fill the house with authentic pine scent. We put one in the tree and it filled the house with very strong, fake pine scent. It gave me headaches. We got rid of that one but didn't throw the rest out. They just stayed in their wrapper in a box of decorations. While decorating the tree this year, their aroma again was making me very sick. We finally tossed them. The plastic box they were in is airing out.
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