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Wells Branch, the neighborhood we live in, does a lot of community events. They have potlucks and concerts and fishing derbies. We haven’t done any of those. We talked about them, but just never really went. They do a couple of very nice things celebrating Christmas. Namely that they put Santa in the Wells Branch […]
Friday afternoon we headed out to hunt down our Christmas tree. I knew we were in for something different than what we were used to in Washington. Back home we have a lot of tree farms fairly close by, the trees look just like they do on the Christmas cards (firs mostly, but with lots […]
Continue reading about Going Native: Searching for a Texas Christmas Tree
Amber and I have been debating about getting a natural Christmas tree or getting an artificial one. Originally I think we had both assumed that the artificial one was better for the environment. After all not cutting down a tree is a good thing. Is it? The real issues were 1) cost (not ugly fake […]
Continue reading about Real Trees for Christmas, The Green Option
Last Saturday I had a 10 mile run scheduled. I was a little nervous because the week before I had barely completed a 9 mile run. I decided to go down to Lady Bird Lake (Town Lake) and run the trail there with the rest of the runners in Austin. I’d never been before, […]