Texas Life
As is our new Texas holiday tradition we headed down to Zilker Park for the lighting of the “tree”. We first enjoyed the enormous yule log fire and then counted down as they turned on the lights. Once the crowd thinned down underneath the tree we headed inside to do some spinning. The photos look […]
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After dinner on Saturday 12/6 we walked down to the Wells Branch Homestead for their annual visit of Santa and luminaries. The trails around Katherine Fleischer Park are lit up with hundreds of beautiful luminaries. Santa was visiting from 6-9. We got there right at 6. Good thing, because this Santa was a talker! He […]
After last year’s Texas Christmas tree experience we decided to do what real Texans do…we went to the store and bought our tree. In the Northwest I never, ever would have thought about doing that. We’ve always cut down our own trees, sometimes with permits for the North Cascades, but usually from a local tree […]
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For the first time in a long time we had a relatively relaxing and low-key Thanksgiving. We didn’t cook a turkey or a ham. All we made was dessert (apple crisp and a banana cream pie) and then showed up at Kerry and Bill’s in Hutto. We got together with a bunch of mutual friends […]