The winter weather broke today, so our Christmas plans changed to meet the Chinook winds. My son checked out potential Christmas trees in the laneway while walking down the hill from the bus. Every year since we moved to the farm, we have cut a Christmas tree from the lane, and every year we say, "Well, this might be the last year we can cut a tree in the lane."
We grabbed a saw and headed back to the tree he picked. He had to climb the tree to take the top 10 feet. Doing it this way means that the tree doesn't die, and it turns out that this is not the first year we have cut our Christmas tree from this stem. This is the first year the my son cut the tree down all by himself, however, and in a few minutes it was toppling down and he climbed out of the tree.
Last Saturday, my youngest son and daughter (with a little help from me) started to make Christmas decorations for the tree. We worked away all one afternoon under my daughters skillful tutelage. We decided that this year for the first week the tree was up, we would only put on decorations that we made. Then, the next week, we would add those special decorations from Christmases past.
I love L.E.D. lights because they use very little energy and generate almost no heat. After my son and I put the tree up, my daughter came over and we strung lights all over the tree and all over the room, too! We added the homemade decorations to the tree and then listened to Christmas carols on YouTube. Some things stay the same; some things change.
This is a good start for Christmas 2009 with another annual event on Sunday: the gingerbread house party. This year we will have four generations constructing at the same time! Watch for pictures in next weeks blog! You can also follow the 2009 Christmas pictures as they happen by clicking on this link.
1 comment:
Hey Gord. I just wanted to thank you for a little tidbit that you brought to my attention late last year...this business of trying to ascertain how much time an assignment or anything else that a student might have to do for a course has made a HUGE difference to all sorts of folk this past year.
Furthermore, to address some issues in the degree (and any other programs for that matter) I gave credit to you for this brilliantly insightful tidbit so that we could better manage student workloads.
So simple, so clever.
Thanks and all of the best to you and yours.
Peter.
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