Doug: Happy day-after Thanksgiving, friends -- or as some say, Black Friday. Meh...
Doug: Yesterday our well wishes featured a few comments about decorating for the holidays. Among others, Humanbelly suggested --
HB: Hmmmmm-- is our topic range expansive enough to touch on some sort of
discussion of holiday decorating? Perhaps from the perspective of
childhood memories vs. current things folks do? I kind of like the fact
that we have a sizable international contingent to weigh in on
something like that. . . Doug: Why, yes -- our topic range is! So there's your prompt for conversation today (and maybe into the weekend). One thing I recall about my youth was that we always had a real tree. However, it wasn't too long into my marriage that my wife and I decided that we both found that to be a hassle and have had artificial trees for the past 20+ years. It's just so much easier to leave the lights on them and with just a bit of bending and twisting we're ready to go the next year. We really only decorate our porch as far as outside goes -- we did lights on our shrubbery for a few years, but rabbits chewed through the wires. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I've pictured a "family heirloom" that's now come to my house from my mom's. Yes, that's a Coca-Cola Santa Claus. We have had that on display at Christmas time for as long as I can remember, and I love it. When my mom gave it to me a few years ago my sons thought it was a bit creepy. So now we playfully refer to him as "Chucky Claus". Sort of took the luster off of it for me, but what the heck.
Doug: OK, enough about me -- let's hear from you now.
UPDATE: Late today HB sent us a few photographs from his weekend decorating. If you've not been to the comments section, these photos accompany his comment from 8:45 pm.
UPDATE #2: Overnight (to me anyway), Edo Bosnar sent a few photos of the city of Zagreb to reinforce a comment he left in today's post. Thanks, Edo!
