I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I just haven't been the good and faithful blogger I should be. This time of year -- September until after the New Year -- always whizzes by, just a blurred succession of holidays, or so it seems. Just today we took our pumpkin off our dining room table to make room for the Christmas decorations that will come down from the attic tomorrow. Pumpkin, you ask? Wasn't it a pool of mush by now? Oh, not so. We never got around to carving it back at Halloween, so the thing is still as fresh and mold free as it was the day we bought it. Made a great centerpiece for the Thanksgiving Day table. Oh, yes, another holiday. I cooked the dinner. Notice I didn't say burned, or destroyed. Nope, it all came out downright palatable. The thing I love about Thanksgiving, OK, the numerous things I love are 1) you don't have to buy any presents! 2) you're always guaranteed a four-day weekend 3) even though you cook until you feel like you're gonna die, and then have to clean up until you feel like you're gonna die, you end up with tons of leftovers so you don't have to cook again for the rest of that wonderful, four day weekend. There's more but hey, Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is on its way. We bought our tree today. This is a serious break in tradition with us. Usually we wait until about a week before Chrismas, when all the good trees are gone and we end up schlepping all over town from tree lot to tree lot, only to end up with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, and I don't mean in the charming sense. Bare, lopsided, dry and sad... One year our tree was so lopsided it actually fell over. There was this mighty crash in the living room, along with the gentle tinkle of my glass icicles breaking on our tile floor. Oh, but not this year. We found a beautiful, shapely, symmetrical tree that's sure to remain upright through New Years. Maybe it'll be like our pumpkin and last forever. Who knows? All I do know is I'd better get my butt in gear and start the shopping, or by the middle of this month I'll be one grouchy grinch!
Lisa's Christmas Factoid:
Did you know that this year's Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center is from the town of Shelton in my home state of Connecticut? And last year's tree was from my home town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. I guess Connecticut just grows the biggest and best Christmas trees!
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