tree trimming

Normally we take care of the tree on the day after Thanksgiving, and had we been planning to spend Christmas in Vancouver (ah, now there's a dream), it could have been so. Not this year, however, and so the trimming was later in the season (weeks after I started playing Christmas music almost non-stop).

Frank came over, as did Tim and Corinne. I fed them all some split pea soup and soda bread and let them graze among the cookies as they wished. And in the end, come 3:00, we were all done, sipping a bit of wine, and glad to see all the ornaments on the tree. All in all, a lovely afternoon.