I finally dealt with my Christmas tree--I bought a full-sized one, which is what I do, and cut off about 2 feet of the bottom. Put lights on it and put it in the stand and on the dinner table. Only it wouldn't fit, it was still too tall. Boy did I feel stupid. OK, I cut off a bunch of the top. Plugged in the lights. Even though I checked them out BEFORE wrapping them around the tree most of the lights refused to light up. HUH??? Oh brother, what a pain. OK, this morning I drove to Peru (half an hour away) to the hardware store there, bought new lights, took the tree off the table, putting it on the floor so I could reach the top and put the new lights on it. A work of art! A thing of beauty! Well, it leans to one side and the boughs are lop-sided but it lights up and has some ornaments. The top 1/3 is empty of ornaments because I have to stand on a chair to decorate it. Which I will do maybe tomorrow. I need to hang more shiny ornaments on it, there's not enough sparkle. Every year I put on fewer ornaments and give more away to the library for their sale. It turns out there's another box I didn't realize I had, with ornaments in it. Since I haven't used them in at least 2 years I think I can give them away.
Other things I did today: fed the birds, brought in firewood (even though it was 35), fed my friend's cat, laundry, put solar lights on posts of the wood shed so I can see wood at night, watched too much TV. Not a whole lot to report on but I'm mostly satisfied. I did use up all of my WeightWatchers points for the day by 4:30. Nasty.
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