Holiday decorations....Charlie Brown style.

With the Christmas holiday fast approaching, Tracey and I decided it was time to hang up our outside decorations. Usually we go all out with way too many lights and blow ups in the yard. This year we decided to scale back a bit. We decided that we no longer needed the icicle lights hanging from the gutters (after about 90 minutes of getting six strands of them to work correctly). We also decided that we had fought our last battle with the outdoor snow globe. Who knew that those things were very sensitive to rain and snow...resulting in the little "snowflakes" sticking to the inside walls of the globe. We opted for simple white lights around the deck railing, the front and back doors, a Merry Moose and Santa blow ups, and two reindeer in the front yard. After several hours, our work was finally completed.

After dark, Tracey decided to head to the little store up the road. Upon her return home she informed me that the front of the house now looked like something Charlie Brown would do and that we needed animated reindeer and some of those spiral tree thingys in the front yard. Apparently me telling her that we are out of outside outlet space to plug these additional items in didn't seem to be a concern. I now fear we may need to call our electrician.

Ssince the downstairs is finished now, we apparently are in need of a Christmas tree down there too. So this week should be entertaining assembling and decorating my 9 foot tree upstairs and our new 7 foot tree downstairs.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.......