The Christmas tree underway

Today, we brought in the tree. It had been carefully picked out by Linda and Wally, and standing in the back yard in a bucket of water. During the night, snow fell, coating the tree with a marvelous dusting that had to be shaken out to bring it in. We waited some time indoors, hoping the limbs would drop a bit so we could tell where to decorate big and small ornaments, and nothing happened so we made lots of executive design decisions. Well, that was the papal "we:" Linda made the design decisions.

I started by putting the lights on, but clearly not enough for my bride, since we only had 5 strings. Then I "helped", the following day, sitting on the sofa and handing out ornaments one at a time, so Linda could place. We chose mostly old ones, Radkos we'd picked up along the way together with pickles and hedgehogs and three little gold ducklings. At the bottom Linda put a big glass box, gold and magenta and white, that proved to be at tail-height. After it shattered into pieces, we put only the old paper ornaments made by Andy and Ben and Chris at the bottom, a just-right thing.