Pics as promised...

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Red

That's a beautiful tree.
It's hard to get in the spirit when Santa is walking around in shorts.

Red...how true. I remember the insanely disassociative feeling of my first Christmas shopping in Southern California. Walking out of a store that looked like a store anywhere: decorated for the holidays; carols piped over the intercom; purchasing gifts...to passing over the threshold into blazing sunshine and temperatures in the 80's. I'd consistently forget to have the sunglasses on *before* I went outside in the early days, which resulted in stabbing pain and my head slamming back.

When you hear a lawnmower being run on Christmas day you begin to think something has gone horribly wrong with your life.

But then...the telephone calls to the family back east. "Oh, really? Four feet of snow just fell? Temperatures below freezing? Gosh, that's terrible. Oh, here? It's 82 degrees and the sun is shining."

heheheheh *That* never gets old!

el pres...yes, sadly, they do seem to do that. I remember being a kid, when the summer seemed three years long. Now I'm lucky if a year feels like it's a year long.