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Santa Clause
The trouble with Thanksgiving is by Christmas I look like my avatar. Not that it's a bad thing but turns into much work to get back to normal by spring. Speaking of normal, I saw a very large and pretty Christmas tree in Miss Sandra's neighbor's yard. It was about 20 ft. tall a beautifully lighted. It stands alone so that everyone from the hiway can see it. Very nice! I love traveling during the holidays.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/04 23:10:34
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"Miss Sandra" eh? Well, ho, ho, ho! 
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 00:02:42
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Welcome back, Bill. Was your Thanksgiving as good as you were expecting? I don't suppose your van down by the river has a chimney for Santa to slide on down and leave you any gifts. Do you have a work-around?
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 00:06:32
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Old55
Welcome back, Bill. Was your Thanksgiving as good as you were expecting? I don't suppose your van down by the river has a chimney for Santa to slide on down and leave you any gifts. Do you have a work-around?
He might get coal thrown into a window if he's been bad...
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 00:12:31
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Old55
Welcome back, Bill. Was your Thanksgiving as good as you were expecting? I don't suppose your van down by the river has a chimney for Santa to slide on down and leave you any gifts. Do you have a work-around?
He might get coal thrown into a window if he's been bad...
It's OK as long as Santa isn't aiming at Bill! I usually receive a lump of coal, but every year it gets a little nicer. Some day, I'll have enough to fill the BBQ.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 01:00:35
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Welcome back among the living, Bill! Speaking of Normal vs Christmas... My wife had a deal on big black christmas tree in October, so she ordered it. It arrived on our doorstep on November 4th IIRC. So we immediately unpacked it and put it together in the living room w/o ever thinking whether it may or may not be too early. It seemed perfectly normal to us. I mean, what else do you do with a Christmas tree? The crappy pic doesn't really do it justice, but anyway... Our friends seemed to think it was relatively strange, but what the heck...  In the end - is that really weirder than Christmas light around a palm tree or Santa's sleigh on green grass? I listen to Elvis' Christmas record all the time, anyway... Did I mention it was black?
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 01:26:06
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So your wife's either very short, the tree's very tall or both, eh?  That looks like a really nice room!
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 01:29:45
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 01:31:32
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Rain
Welcome back among the living, Bill!
Speaking of Normal vs Christmas...
My wife had a deal on big black christmas tree in October, so she ordered it. It arrived on our doorstep on November 4th IIRC.
So we immediately unpacked it and put it together in the living room w/o ever thinking whether it may or may not be too early. It seemed perfectly normal to us. I mean, what else do you do with a Christmas tree?
The crappy pic doesn't really do it justice, but anyway...
Our friends seemed to think it was relatively strange, but what the heck...
In the end - is that really weirder than Christmas light around a palm tree or Santa's sleigh on green grass?
I listen to Elvis' Christmas record all the time, anyway...
Did I mention it was black?
Knowing your penchant for black, the tree isn't that surprising that you'd get one. What is a little surprising is that someone sells one. Is it from the Black Forest in Germany? 
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 12:44:09
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Wow, nice digs man. More space in that room than my entire apartment. What do the cats do with a tree like that? Mine would have it on the ground by now.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 13:01:11
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RainIn the end - is that really weirder than Christmas light around a palm tree or Santa's sleigh on green grass?
I was thinking it was weirder that your wife lets you sit around and take pictures while she's up on a ladder working on the tree.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 13:54:20
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I forgot to mention in the previous post, a very nice apartment too.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 16:57:06
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RainIn the end - is that really weirder than Christmas light around a palm tree or Santa's sleigh on green grass?
I was thinking it was weirder that your wife lets you sit around and take pictures while she's up on a ladder working on the tree.
For some reason I don't think she's afraid of heights.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 17:13:55
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For some reason I don't think she's afraid of heights.
Good catch! :) We put it up together - I was just getting back from the other room putting on some music. But I often leave the ladder stuff to her. The two baby cats are really doing a number on it. Especially Syd, the youngest one we've just adopted a few weeks ago. There are fake needles on the floor everywhere in the house, even upstairs... He likes to climb in it and play hide and seek with his sister. Or then just to throw decorations on the ground. We love this house. And we appreciate it even more after those 2 years living in hotel rooms and small suites, and more particularly after the few months we spent in that dark and ugly little apartment when we arrived in Vegas. Moving up here, further away from the strip and to a much nicer part of the city and into this house really changed everything. That's when we started liking Vegas.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 17:30:12
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BTW, I've always loved putting up Christmas trees w/ themes. The year Star Wars episode III came out, we had an awesome Sith-mas tree, with dead stars, TIE fighters, light sabres and The Emperor on the top of the tree. We also had a Nightmare before Christmas one, which was pretty cool. So this years, since we'd opted for a more traditional tree downstairs, I put on a little KISSmas tree in my studio.  
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 17:35:46
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I think you need some more red in there. Maybe a dark red image on that black wall. I can think of a few things...
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 17:44:26
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Funny you mention that - I decided last night that I'd repaint the room red.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 18:20:40
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Black really makes a room look smaller, but too much red can make you irritated... Oh well!
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 19:15:12
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I've always had at least one red wall in my "home studios" - it's a colour I live well with. With the eggshell carpet and ceiling, I think the red and black thing will make this place totally feel like home.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 19:24:21
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I'm afraid to say.... .... there ain't no Sanity Clause What a great song. They don't make 'em like that any more  Better quality HERE
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/05 19:47:46
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/10 01:43:54
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I've been reorganizing the workplace again tonight and added a bit of red - in the form of an old Alice Cooper concert poster... Not on the back wall though. I need that blank space in front of me.  I'm slowly getting there...
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/10 01:52:11
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/10 02:31:19
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Hope you find a nice tree bill. Douglas Fir? Is that what you guys use or is that just Twin Peaks? Hope no one around here gets offended at Santa Claus.
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/10 02:37:54
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Re: Santa Clause
2013/12/10 08:57:00
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Bill, tell us more about Miss Sandra!
Rain, you have a beautiful home. If your lovely lady was leaning any more to the right, she might have toppled over!
Have a great Christmas!
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