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Christmas Wrap Up

Well, Christmas is finally over. The decorations are all put away and the leftovers all eaten (well, almost all eaten). The month between Thanksgiving and the end of the year felt endless and yet whipped by blazingly fast. On the home front we had a new Christmas tree this year. It is pre-lit with white lights. That is a big change for us from our previous tree with its multicolored lights. All of a sudden all of our ornaments all seem monochrome! Oddly enough, even though the tree is slimmer than our previous tree, we still hung just as many ornaments on it.

Christmas Tree

We added nothing new for our outside lights this year. We are still doing the blue and white LED lights on the eaves with a "pine" wreath and garland sporting multicolored lights. You can see the LED lights from all of the way down the street. Unfortunately, I forgot to take any photos of our outside lights, but they certainly looked NOTHING like this:

Christmas Lights

Those people are just crazy.

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On my side of the family, this year was a departure from recent tradition with the Christmas day festivities taking place in San Diego for the first time in several years, plus and minus a few people. We did not have a full sized Christmas tree set up so we arranged the presents all pretty around the fireplace. Of course, we didn't have a fire in the fireplace because someone would have had to go out to buy wood. Strangely, no one seemed interested in volunteering for that on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Presents

But Christmas was a lovely day. We opened presents in the morning and had Christmas dinner in the evening. Even though there were only four of us, we made short work of a small but whole turkey and all of the standard trimmings. It is not Christmas until we have all stuffed ourselves with some fine home cooking.

The rest of the week around Christmas was chilly but quiet; perfect for powering down and recharging body and mind.

Once I returned home, Lucy proceeded to make short work of her presents. I think she might have set an all-time record for tearing up a new toy.

Rope Toy

Actually, I am no longer even sure what that toy looked like before she ate it.

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The final Christmas event of the season was a second Christmas dinner with my father after I returned home from San Diego. We had already put all of the decorations away (since neither of us felt the need to keep them out until the bitter end). But we roasted a pre-stuffed turkey and made mashed potatoes and gravy (and green beans!) for dinner. With the Christmas paper on the presents it felt festive enough. Once again, Lucy demonstrated her ferocious jaw work for us and we soon had Christmas paper and bits of a solid rubber toy all over the floor.

Though the weather may have been dreary and the house not quite clean enough, as always, the best part of the Christmas season festivities has been the time spent with family. And the turkey, all the pounds and pounds of turkey...

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