Turn Out The Lights…
I’m off to Milwaukee again today, and I guess my dash to the airport officially ends the holidays. I took one last gaze at our tree, which I’m told will come down in my absence. Before I leave the holidays for good, here’s a short photographic retrospective:
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The purple ornament has a white frosted “1949″ on the opposite side, and is a souvenir from my first Christmas, a little over two months after I was born. the second is from a cool set of ornaments that we bought from the nearby (now departed) Fuji dimestore for one of our first Christmases here in Seattle. The third (omen!) was a gift from my brother in 2002, the year our alma mater won its last National Championship, something we hope to repeat Monday night.
Here are a couple of houses in the neighborhood that went to extraordinary lengths to mark the holidays:
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OK, I guess I can move on to bowl season now, just in time.
(Posting delayed due to some “proxy server” issues at my client’s, which probably means they’re monitoring internet activity.)