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Decorating For Christmas

Today's the day--arbitrarily chosen by my wife, I think--to decorate the house for the Christmas holidays. We don't go overboard any longer. I think she doesn't want me up on a ladder putting lights on the house. I'm certainly still capable of doing that, but I'm not telling her that. I'm perfectly willing to remain on the ground. Besides, it's 30 degrees outside.

We have a brick fireplace with a gas fireplace insert in our family room that bears the bulk of our inside decorations. We used to get a real tree every year for the front room until our current cat came along. It amazes me how quickly a cat can shred a tree. Since we spend most of our time in the family room, we can watch for the cat stalking the decorations on the mantle. I have a loaded Nerf gun at my beck and call, and I know how to use it.

Christmas gifts in my wife's family is limited to what can be placed in a stocking on the fireplace. They are a mite over-sized in my opinion, and that opens the field for imaginative gifts. There IS a lot of room above the insert to the mantle allowing for the super-sized stockings.

I better get the boxes down for the decorating to begin. I just hope I'll get to watch a couple football games today.