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Post by Phalon on Oct 23, 2009 7:48:52 GMT -6
"I love, love, love this brief, glorious time of year."
I do too, Siren....and you're right; it's glorious - but all too brief. Autumn always feels as if it passes through much too quickly, and this year with all the rain we've had in October, and colder than average temperatures, I almost feel cheated out of my favorite season!
I'm afraid the weathermen may have been right - they predicted Wednesday as being our last nice day of the month, and sure enough, it's rained non-stop since. The beach walk might have been the last bit of autumn's glory that I get to experience this year. But oh! What a beautiful way to close out the season!
(Still hoping though for that Indian Summer!)
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Post by Phalon on Oct 26, 2009 6:46:04 GMT -6
Kind of a bummer today. I'm off work, but BP is home from school not feeling well; nothing a little stay-inside for the day care won't cure. It's gloomy and drippy outside - as it was all weekend - and it seems to be messing with her sinuses.
I had planned though on going to the beach. There's a movie crew in town, and they're filming scenes from the upcoming movie "What's Wrong with Virginia", starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Roberts, and Amy Madigan.
I didn't want to go down to the beach to be one of the "extras". They're calling for a bunch of people to appear in the crowd as beach goers - in beach attire. Beach attire in late October! It's definitely not beach attire weather as far as I'm concerned....not to mention I don't think "What's Wrong with Virginia" is supposed to be a horror film.
Even if they blocked the beach off from gawkers, there's plenty of places along the bluff to view the goings-on. But it wasn't that I wanted to get a glimpse of the stars either; honestly, in my pop-cultural hole, I can't place faces with their names anyway.
But the set they built! The movie takes place at the New Jersey shore, and I saw on the news last night that they built an entire boardwalk type set. Our quiet beach with a lighthouse and snack-shop was transformed into a boardwalk with shops, restaurants, and such! The transformation must be amazing, and it's interesting to me that they'd go to all that trouble to make a small town's beach on Lake Michigan look like the New Jersey shore on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 28, 2009 22:12:01 GMT -6
It's been kind of a strange week here in town, starting off with the movie thing Monday at the beach. The town's water comes from the Lake; the treatment plant is down by the beach. Some water main broke in the plant Monday afternoon, and we've been under a "boil water" effect since then.
I don't know how the movie people could have had anything to do with it while building sets and such - but there have been rumors. We've been using bottled water for everything - it's amazing how much you take clean water for granted, until you don't have easy access to it. Hopefully, (crosses fingers) the advisories will be lifted tomorrow and I can catch up on that laundry that's threatening to take over the house, which is competing with the dishes overflowing from the dishwater. LMAO. I just can't bring myself to wash clothes or dishes, even on the "Hot" settings, if there's a small threat of the water being contaminated, yet I've jumped in the shower every morning without a thought to what might be coming out of the faucet.
Today, the girls started their Four Day Halloween Weekend. Four days! School has been canceled for the rest of the week because there's been a tremendous drop in attendance due to the flu that's been running rampant around here. The phone's been ringing off the hook, as plans are being made to "let's do this", and "let's do that"; I've a feeling I'm going to either be playing hostess, or chauffeur for the rest of the week.
And by the time it's over, I'll be wearing something similar to LX's Halloween costume....she's going to be an insane asylum escapee. Only my straight jacket won't be fake.
There is, btw, a full moon on the rise. LMAO. I checked the calendar just out of curiosity.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 29, 2009 6:57:56 GMT -6
We've got the most beautiful autumn morning here! There's a chill in the air, but it's not at all uncomfortable. The skies are gray, and a mist has settled in over the neighborhood. It really makes the fall colors seem to pop out, and it doesn't matter at all that the sun is hiding.
I wouldn't mind if it stayed like this for a few more weeks. Days? Even just this one. This late in the season, I'll take all I can get.
And! They lifted the water advisory! Since I have the day off work, I can get all those dishes and laundry done that's piled up. First thing's first though. I'm going to get some roller skiing in before it's too late.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 31, 2009 7:54:20 GMT -6
Well, this is it....the last day we have a chance to set things right and get back to normal...or at least, a tad of normalcy.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to happen, and this month will go into the record books as being the coldest, wettest October in history here, without even one day reaching 70 degrees.
The mercury is far, far away from the seventy degree mark, and the wind is howling up a storm. This morning, I saw a little hummingbird zipping around a pot of begonias that is still hanging on. Poor, little guy....I hope he didn't miss his chance to head south; it seems the rest of his kind have been gone for weeks.
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Post by Siren on Oct 31, 2009 8:07:03 GMT -6
Oh, my, Gams - your hummingbird IS running behind, isn't he? He needs to take the Express to warmer temps right away.
"...I don't think "What's Wrong with Virginia" is supposed to be a horror film."
LOL! I'm with you, Gams. BUT, if the movie needs some pale, pasty flesh to simulate a dead whale that has washed up on the beach, just have them take a close-up shot of one of my thighs.
Pretty cool, having those celebs in town! I've had a crush on Ed Harris (an OU Sooner) for years. He's been in lots of movies. My favorite was when he played Patsy Cline's husband in "Sweet Dreams". But most people remember him as John Glenn in "The Right Stuff". Amy Madigan is his wife. I remember her as the tough, cigar-smoking sidekick to Michael Pare' in "Streets of Fire" (but I'm about the only one who remembers that movie!). Emma Roberts is Julia Roberts' niece, and was in that terrible Nancy Drew movie, in "Aquamarine", and "Hotel For Dogs". Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind".
I got to meet a few movie stars during in my radio days - Dennis Hopper (charismatic and sexy), Bill Paxton (from"Twister", which was filmed here), and Shirley Jones (yes, "Mom Partridge", but also Laurie in "Oklahoma"). Supermodel Rachel Hunter stopped by one day, too, while in town promoting cosmetics. She was very tall, thin, and beach-girl-beautiful. My friend and I, who are equally not tall, thin, and beach-girl-beautiful, took a photo with her. Later, we showed the pic to our boss, and laughed, saying, "Can you spot the supermodel in this photo?"
Very chilly here the last few days, with amazing sunsets. Our weatherman always comments about the fall sunsets in Oklahoma. Looks like the kiddies will have fair weather for trick-or-treating. I'm headed to my sis' house for our little Halloween celebration tonight. Made a mandarin orange/jello salad for the occasion - suitably orange, but not very spooky. GG usually serves up great party snacks. My friend David is breathlessly waiting to see if she prepares homemade caramel apples again. He ate his in silent bliss last year.
We have not yet decided upon what movie to watch tonight. We may stick with "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", showing on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). It's the Spencer Tracy version, directed by Victor Fleming ("Gone With The Wind"), with two wonderful leading ladies: Lana Turner and Ingrid Bergman, both amazingly beautiful in it. They were cast in their usual roles - Lana as the sexy siren, Ingrid as the virtuous sweetheart. But Ingrid thought it would be more interesting if they switched roles. So she campaigned with the studio, and got the switch. Legend has it that Spencer Tracy hated his makeup, his acting, most everything about this movie, and was afraid audiences would laugh at it. But it's a glossy, good-looking film with great stars. Even a so-so film from Hollywood's Golden Era is better than most anything released these days.
Happy Halloween!!
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Post by stepper on Oct 31, 2009 14:13:18 GMT -6
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to happen, and this month will go into the record books as being the coldest, wettest October in history here, without even one day reaching 70 degrees. That's global warming for you. Just whenyou think it's going to warm up, it cools off and you start setting cold records. Sounds like you are going to have a good night for Halloween. I hope your birdie friend is okay - but I believe you are right. The migration should have started weeks ago. I think Hummers are amazing - and I love having them come by. Tell it I'll leave out my feeder just in case it comes this way. |
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Post by Phalon on Nov 1, 2009 6:14:32 GMT -6
Maybe this guy was coming from further north, and just making a pit-stop his way to your place, Stepper. I left him a note just in case.
Chilly here too, Siren...but without those beautiful sunsets; it's been too gloomy and overcast for the sun to even want to peek out. It was cold and windy last night during Trick-or-Treating. Passing out candy from my perch on the porch, I had two pair of long johns on under my witch's garb - thin skirt. How do they do it anyway - flying around in the chill of October's air for centuries in such skimpy materials? It must be why they've got that eerie green cast to their skin. Frost-bite.
Hope you had a good time last night, (and that Gigi made her carmel apples! Mmmmm!). After reading your post, I looked for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on cable. I didn't find it though, and landed on a couple of recent movies shown on Lifetime's Movie Channel for our Halloween night viewing - "The Messengers" and "I've Been Waiting For You". Not too bad as far as new horror films go; at least they had plots and weren't soooo badly acted that the only horror in them was listening to the actors recite their lines. No gratuitous blood and guts slashing either. Though not great movies, considering what's usually passed off as horror these days, slasherless is good.
Today's the last day of work for me this season; I'd better go get those long johns back on - it feels like it's going to be another cold one.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 5, 2009 6:37:09 GMT -6
I put on my long johns right after I made my last post here, at the beginning of the week.....I didn't need them after-all. We've had a string of days filled with sunshiny chilly-but-not-cold late fall weather, and gorgeous, gorgeous moonlit nights.
The big, golden-colored moon is one that, to me, is the quintessential Harvest Moon - it just looks as if it should be called that. It's not though - November's full moon is the Beaver Moon, so called because this was the time the Native Americans started setting their traps before the waters froze, or because it's the time beavers start preparing for winter.
An alternative name is the Frosty Moon, which conjures an image in my head of a pure white moon, not the golden color it's been.
Whatever it's called though, it's been beautiful, and nice enough outside to sit and watch it.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 7, 2009 7:53:50 GMT -6
It is sooooooo pretty out right now, I just can't stay inside one more minute! This is the kind of autumn morning that makes the season the most beautiful time of the year for me!
Hope everyone is enjoying their morning as much as I plan on enjoying mine.
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Post by Siren on Nov 7, 2009 8:09:35 GMT -6
I can picture you, roller-skiing through the park in your long johns. Nothing else, just the long johns and roller-skis. Lol! For some reason, that picture popped into my head. Wait - add a colorful stocking hat for the perfect finishing touch. Your daughters would never speak to you again. But what an impression you'd make on the community. Lol!
It's a beautiful, crisp morning here, too. Very fallish. I thought of you, Gams, when I saw that big, gorgeous moon this week. Wasn't it a treat? One day, I got to enjoy it twice. My sister called me on her way to work that morning, so I'd go out and see it setting, all big, and pale, and ghostly. Then, it rose again that night, even more beautiful. I don't know what it is about the tilt of the earth at this time of year that makes the moon even more beautiful. But it's just one of the many things I love about autumn.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 8, 2009 7:30:51 GMT -6
HA, Siren! I can see it now....where the cross dressing lawn mower man who cuts his grass wearing women's lingerie and heels is done for the season, the woman roller-skier in long johns takes over! I'd be a town institution.....or institutionalized, is more like it. I did go roller-skiing yesterday morning, (fully clothed), and then afterward, spent the remainder of the day doing yard work, as I did the day before...and the day before that. I got most of the leaves to the curb just in time! Look who came to visit Friday! The Leaf Sucker Truck finally made it's pass down our street!  I don't know why I am so fascinated by this thing. It's probably because it reminds me of the Cat in the Hat's cleaner-upper truck, and I can imagine using this giant vacuum hose inside the house to get rid of the dust-bunnies, dog hair, the girls' incomplete projects that have been laying around incomplete for weeks because they swear they're going to one day (soon) get around to finishing them, and those stray teenagers who walk into my house and immediately go to the cupboards to eat whatever it is I've just bought at the grocery store.  And so my parkway is clean...my house is not, and shoot, in a few days, my yard won't be either. There are still leaves yet on the trees!  |
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Post by Siren on Nov 8, 2009 7:56:22 GMT -6
"I'd be a town institution.....or institutionalized, is more like it."
You made me BOLL with that one, Gams. And LOL, too!
What a fun job, running the leaf sucker truck! It would be like playing all day. I met another of our city's new employees - the man who runs the "big trash" truck. You know that game in the carnival midway where you operate the little crane truck by remote control, picking up a prize, and hopefully, dropping it into the prize slot? This man runs a giant version of that, plucking up your discarded furniture, appliance, or demolition scrap from the curb, and dropping it into the truck behind him. When I told him that it sounded like fun, he grinned and said that it was.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 12, 2009 6:09:13 GMT -6
I had a feeling you'd think the leaf-sucker truck was neat, Siren (just like I've always thought it'd be fun to operate the arm on the trash truck!) You're recent mention of getting caught playing with your BIL's giant magnet nail picker-upper gave you away. I think we must be cool machine kindred spirits.
You know what's coming up soon, don't you? The ice-rink zamboni! I've always wanted to drive one of those.
We got our first hard frost Tuesday night. I had just emptied the all the pots and flower boxes outside the day before. There were a few plants I wanted to keep inside the house though, and got them all potted up just in time. But shoot! I never got around to bringing them inside! All of them turned to mush with the frost except one nice, big full pot of tri-colored ivy.
I brought in it last night. Poor thing. I probably just gave it a death sentence, and should have left it outside to die a quick, painless death instead of the slow, agonizing one it's sure to suffer under my care inside.
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Post by Siren on Nov 12, 2009 6:43:33 GMT -6
You may recall, Gams, that I left my hibiscus tree outside too long last fall. At the time, I was afraid I had killed it. But you told me that, since it was still green inside, it would probably be okay. You were right. Though its shape wasn't as pretty as before, it still bloomed gloriously all summer, and is doing fine in the room where my mom winters her plants. I hope your ivy withstands your loving care. *Hee hee!*
You're right - I'm a fellow fan of cool machines. My first job was at a pizza joint. I often ran hunks of dough through the dough roller, just for the heck of it. And when I worked at a video store, I often played with the shrink-wrap machine. It was fun, seeing what I could encase in plastic!
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Post by Phalon on Nov 13, 2009 23:09:21 GMT -6
BOLL, Siren. I could sooo see myself playing with a shrink-wrap machine. Another fun one is a leaf-blower. They, IMO, aren't much more efficient than raking...but they sure are fun! We don't own one, but I got the idea in my head that I needed one to get the wet leaves up from the ravine this year, faster than I could rake them. I borrowed one from the nursery, and discovered a leaf blower doesn't blow wet leaves - but it makes some pretty cool water spouts out of standing water!
Today was gorgeous - sixty-five degrees in mid-November!!! It was the perfect day for BP's class field trip to the nature center, which I helped chaperon. It was neat - they are learning about Native Americans in class, so the whole program was based on what would have taken place in a typical day in the life of Native American children from tribes of this area.
I also finally got started in earnest on another volunteer project I pretty much got suckered into doing. All it took was a little mention that I thought it'd be neat if there was a botanical-themed tree in this year's Festival of Trees. The trees (artificial) are provided, and area businesses, social groups, and school clubs decorate them in different themes, and then they are displayed to the public, auctioned off, with all the proceeds going to a local charity. The trees go for hundreds of dollars. Xena-Sis is a chair-person on the committee, and somehow I found myself volunteered to decorate a tree. ACK! All week I've been collecting stuff - hydrangea blossoms, grapevines, bittersweet vines, nuts and seed pods. I made ornaments out of some cool botanical prints. Hubs sprayed a birdhouse gourd with shellac to use as a tree topper - it's absolutely beautiful. I'm using the grapevines as garland, and got them on this afternoon - I think that is going to be the hardest part.
Now all I have to do is put the stuff on, and hope it doesn't look like the nightmare I'm imagining it'll be!
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Post by Phalon on Nov 18, 2009 18:47:25 GMT -6
Ah, it's that time of year again: pumpkins and gourds, autumn leaves and cornstalk bundles; Christmas trees, and snowflakes. The seasonal over-lap. I am so much a one holiday at a time person, I just realized Thanksgiving was next week already! I'm not even close to thinking about Christmas shopping yet.
Although...I spent much of Sunday down at City Hall decorating my tree. Oh! I have to say, it looks good! Much better than I expected it too, especially since that comment Marathong friend made years ago after seeing one of my decorating-ideas-gone-bad still rings in my head: "It looks like a Martha Stewart project! If Martha Stewart smoked crack."
Ah...it's good to have friends you can count on for support.
But the tree does look beautiful, in all its bittersweet, hydrangea, and vine finery. I'm not quite done yet, but it's already be mentioned that there are quite a few bidders looking at it.
But dang, to spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon - a sixty degree Sunday afternoon in November - decorating a Christmas tree! Walking downtown the next morning to meet a friend for coffee, it was everywhere - the town's gazebo still had a garland of fall flowers, pumpkins, and cornstalks adorning it, while looking through the gazebo, the pavilion had snowflakes hanging from the rafters as the workers below set to work putting up the ice rink. The street lampposts where still decorated for fall; most of the storefronts had Christmas displays in them.
The weather turned cold and gloomy today, and with off and on rain, I suppose if I had to be stuck inside with contractor guy, today was the day to do it. It's the first day of November that it seemed fall might be deciding to give winter its turn. October and November seemed to have traded places here, but I haven't minded one bit. These last couple of weeks have been truly gorgeous autumn weather. Sad, if it's finally truly on its way out.
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Post by vox on Nov 19, 2009 5:56:34 GMT -6
Ooooh! it all sounds so lovely Phalon! Where' s the pictures?
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Post by Phalon on Nov 19, 2009 11:47:06 GMT -6
Whew! Busy morning; I got a lot done that I wanted to do yesterday, but didn't get to do because I was stuck inside the house. I went to get my hair cut downtown first thing, and shoot, the fall flower garland on the gazebo had already been replaced by swags of greenery and red bows. Pfft. I don't want to see red bows before Thanksgiving.
I went roller-skiing....ahhh....my perfect way to chase off cabin fever, (can a person get cabin fever in a day?). Then ran up to the nursery to get a few more supplies for the tree; I have to figure out how to complete the top of the pot I decorated and stuck the tree in, so the stand doesn't show. I think I've got it figured out. We'll see....I just cut some yellow-twig dogwood branches from our ravine, and am going down to (hopefully) finish today....
...except for that idea that popped into my head while I was at the nursery. The garden club ladies were there making wreaths and swags for their town's (not our town's; ours still has cornstalks) lampposts. I decided since props are allowed under the tree, it'd be neat to have a big basket arrangement of fresh greens and berries to go allow with the tree. Uhm...which I have to find time to do tomorrow sometime. (eye-roll)
This is kind of turning into a project similar to the roofing one - will it never end?
I'll take a picture while I'm down there today, Vox, so you can get an idea of how it's going to look.
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Post by vox on Nov 19, 2009 12:15:04 GMT -6
Great! can't wait to see it!
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Post by Phalon on Nov 19, 2009 22:28:05 GMT -6
I'm done!!!! Well, except for the basket; and I'll (hopefully) get that done tomorrow morning. Whew! It took so long because everything had to be wired in and secured. Then I had to go back once it was all decorated, and use floral tape to secure each light bulb away from any of the dried flowers and berries (just in case the fire marshall had anything to say about it).
Photo will have to wait, Vox. I forgot my camera! (Actually, I did take a photo this afternoon before it was finished, but it didn't come out very well in the poor lighting, making it look blah.)
I'm relieved it's over!
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Post by vox on Nov 20, 2009 12:36:19 GMT -6
You do yourself an injustice! I'm sure anything you do doesn't look blah!
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Post by Siren on Nov 20, 2009 21:05:37 GMT -6
It sounds so pretty, Gams! Please, do post a pic for us when you get a chance.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 21, 2009 8:02:27 GMT -6
Will do, Siren. I've got the basket done yesterday. My next trip to City Hall tomorrow will be to drop that off, and then it's complete. I'm not sure how it'll be received once the bidding starts - I like it, but it's far from traditional.
Sometimes though, a break from traditional methods turn out to be best. Yesterday was a perfect example. LX came home from school in a mopey and sullen mood. "What's the reason for the attitude?" "Don't want to talk about it." <snarl>
Fine. No lectures now, no advice or prying; LX is the kind of kid who likes to mull things over, and work them out in her head before she tells what's bothering her. And she always tells me eventually.
I went outside to finish raking leaves - there are still a ton of them, and we need to get them up before the storm that's brewing over the Lake hits sometime next week - if the weathermen are correct this time. Not long after, LX came out and started raking with me. Unusual - she has an aversion to outside work. We raked in silence for a while; I could see she was still mulling. "You know, I'm always here when you need to talk", imaging some type of major catastrophe of the teenage sort had happened.
Nothing really - just a realization that being a freshman in high school is a bit harder than being an upperclassman in middle school. Middle school was one big social engagement for LX - high school, surprize, surprize, actually involves more work than play. Whew! That's it? A pile of assignments as big as the mound of leaves we had raked was going to keep her homebound for most of the weekend? Much less catastrophic than my imagined boy troubles with the kid she likes, whom I do not.
The dog charged back and forth through the leaf piles like some wild beast uncaged after a long confinement. And clearly she was having fun destroying our hard work. Why not? I flung a rakeful of leaves at LX. She flung one back. I tackled her in the pile. She smushed a handful of leaves in my hair. Straddling her and pinning her arms with my knees, I buried her face in leaves, and filled the hood of her sweatshirt with them before letting her go. She chased after me. "Can't catch me, na, na, na, na boo-boo." She jumped on my back, trying to bring me down. HA! I brushed her off like a fly. Body-slam! She was down again, and I tickled her 'til she begged for mercy. Hubs had come home from work, and the both of us noticed him standing at the back door, laughing at us through the window. We blew him leave-filled kisses. We played Star Wars with rake light sabers - apparently I was Darth Vader because my rake was red, and red is evil. The evil red rake was knocked from my hands. "I saved the Galaxy", Luke Skywalker yelled, doing a happy dance around the yard, while twirling the rake above her head.
"Shoulda tried out to be a flag-girl" - those flag-twirling girls who dance around on the field before football games. I sarcastically muttered in defeat. She broke out in a exaggerated mock flag-girl funky dance-step routine that surely would have gotten her kicked off the team. I cracked up laughing from my spectator's seat on the back porch, cheering wildly for my sullen-mooded teenager turned happy again.
Time to go in; it was getting dark, I hadn't even thought about starting dinner yet, and she had a ton of homework waiting. We picked the leaves out of our hair, and she gave me a big hug. "Thanks, Mom."
Sometimes having fun is a whole lot more effective than lectures.
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Post by stepper on Nov 21, 2009 19:22:10 GMT -6
Good for you Phalon. Those are the moments that don't fade out with time. LX is going to remember the leaf battle years after she completely forgets what prompted it.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 22, 2009 22:11:17 GMT -6
I hope she remembers, Stepper. I know I will. It was just one of times when nothing else mattered but the moment, and getting to share it with my daughter makes it something very special to me. I completely finished the tree project today, when I delivered the basket of greens to City Hall. Here's the basket...  The photo of the tree didn't come out very well; I think the lighting in the basement of City Hall is too poor. Everything looks washed out and much less vibrant than it actually is. I swear it looks a lot prettier in person. And when they finish decorating to transform it from a dark basement into a snowy winter wonderland, everything will just sparkle.   And when it is transformed into that winter wonderland, I hope my tree is still among the ones sparkling. There was a different woman in charge today when I dropped off the basket, and she was less than approving, hinting that the fire marshall might have a lot to say when he takes a look at the tree. No one said a word of this beforehand - not one peep the entire time I was decorating, although I did everything to ensure each light was secured in a spot completely away from any of the dried materials. Keep your fingers crossed - fire marshall's inspection is tomorrow! |
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 22, 2009 22:19:21 GMT -6
Yikes! They could have put that information in big print. 
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Post by Phalon on Nov 22, 2009 22:33:28 GMT -6
I agree, Joxie. In the information packet, there was a note about fire safety: a bunch of information about electrical overload, and requirements about how many strings of lights were allowed per tree based on how many feet tall they were. I had a small 4' tree, and only used one strand of lights - two strands less than I could have. Only a small mention was made about 'using caution when decorating with natural materials'. And I did that. I'll just have to wait and see.
I'll be upset if it's disqualified. I'll be way more upset if they rip it apart. Because this is an auction with all the proceeds going to charity, if they kick out the tree, I'd like to donate it to the women's shelter in the next county. One of our customers at the nursery volunteers there, and from some of the stories she's told, it sounds like the women there could use a bit of cheer.....even a small bit like a Christmas tree.
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 22, 2009 23:40:36 GMT -6
 Here's hoping it passes muster ... or at least isn't destroyed.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 23, 2009 17:11:31 GMT -6
Whoo-hoo! The tree is in! Although the basket is sitting on my front porch, because apparently live greens violate fire code, and aren't allowed in any municiple building in town, (you woulda thought that might have been mentioned in the information packet). That's okay - I stuffed the flower boxes with greens and the same orange berries, so they match.
Whew! That's a relief.
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