Decorating & Remembering

Christmas 2011 was not a year to decorate for obvious reasons.  I felt lucky to just get through that first Christmas.  Christmas 2012 was a the year of transition.  I was in what I affectionately called my "rental hovel" with most of my belongings except the bare essentials packed away.  There was no way I was going to attempt to decorate.

Christmas was always a time when Irene decorated the whole house.  Multiple Christmas trees came out.  Nutcrackers were all over the house.  Garland adorned the living room and lights were everywhere.

I am not quite that ambitious.  Most of the decorations were sold when the Merlin house was sold.  However, several things were too precious to part with.  So, after Thanksgiving the bubble light tree came out.  Several years ago we bought a very short set of battery operated LED lights to accentuate the bubble light tree.  Technology has improved, and I found a set of 50 small multicolored LED lights that fit it perfectly.  I took off the old lights and installed the new ones tonight.

The Santa carving was done by Roy Flowers, a friend & fellow Diamond employee, who we also lost way too early to cancer.