Time to put up the Christmas lights...
The mister doesn't want to do the same old thing we always do.... a line of lights across the front of the house.   He wants to place them around the garage door this year.
I don't know...that means nails in the frame. I don't like that idea too much.
And I just bought all new hooks for the eaves trough! (big sigh).
We have a really big evergreen just beside the drive way...we could put the lights and decorations on that....or we could put lights on the deciduous trees we have.
I normally put curtain lights in the livingroom window, and the christmas tree is in the corner near the window.
As soon as I bring out the tree, MissT our cat, starts sitting and sleeping under it.
Last year I was still putting the lights on and I stepped on her..she was hiding under the tree....she wasn't happy that I didn't see her.
I have a tree that I bought at least 25 years ago.  I paid a lot of money for it at a boxing day sale at (now gone) White Rose.
 It still  looks great.  It has branches that look like branches, not wires wrapped in plastic.  I attach pine cones here and there to help fool the eye.
 The only thing missing is the scent...
And lights...I must put 700 lights on that tree.  But, it's a big tree....8 feet tall...with a base of 5-6 feet away from the wall.
When the grandkids were babies, I would cover the tree in toys.  Beanie babies, tiny teddies and tiny dolls.
Remember all the toys kids would get in a kids meal?....On the tree, tied with a ribbon.
So there was Grover, Cookiemonster, Kermit the frog, Miss Piggy...all sorts of kiddie stuff on the tree, including Wilie Coyote, Roadrunner, Shrek..Princesses and tiny little Cabbage Patch dolls, Tigger and Pooh.
If they wanted to play with the toy, that was fine, but we put it back when we were done playing with it.
Now,  the girls are past that...and we are trying for a more sophisticated looking tree.
I liked the toys....they were fun.