Holidays
It's only a few days until Christmas, and while my Christmas tree has been up for maybe two weeks, more or less, I finally got around to decorating it. Before you ask "a competely bare Christmas tree?" , it had three strands of lights on it since the afternoon I'd set it up. Just no actual decorations . It's not that we don't have them, I just haven't put them on our tree for a few years now. There's a reason for this. (Besides sheer laziness; that doesn't quite cover it.) For years, we'd bought live trees from local tree lots, lugged it home, set it up, then decorated it with lights and decorations. Somewhere along the way, we ended up with two large buckets with lids to keep our Christmas stuff in; one bucket was for lights, the other for all other decorations. The light bucket always came off the utility room shelf first; once the lights were on the tree, the other bucket came down and the decorations put up. Each year, it was the sam...