Tree
This year we got our Christmas tree at Home Depot. Which makes me a little sad because I really enjoy the hours of agonizing over which of a thousand identical trees is the just the right one. Unfortunately the trees in Texas are terrible and Costco wasn’t selling, so we went to the hardware store. […]
Continue reading about Decorating the Christmas Tree: A Week Long Event
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 […]
Continue reading about Zilker Tree Lighting 15 Seconds of Fame
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 […]
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