With angelic hosts proclaim

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...It's raining. I'm home from work. I have two days off, starting tomorrow. Then I don't have any days off for...a while. Some folks are already starting to stress. The trick to this job is to enter into the Let's Shop! mindset with the customer and kinda close your eyes to the whole potlatch thing. Mostly easy to do; the large portion of our customers being easy going and willing to be amused. Then there are the adults who explain to you (at volume) that their child's Life!Will!Be!Blighted unless this certain item which sold out weeks ago is produced for them on the instant. Sheesh.

kinzel picked the stained glass dragon up from the glass studio today. The wings now have matching vanes (couldn't match the glass, so they put leading over the crack, then made a matchint "vane" on the other wing). My next project is to find a Heavy Duty Ceiling Hook. I'm thinking molly, here...

How's the beginning of the Season going for y'all?

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The real wreath is up --

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My tradition -- we always had real wreaths and real trees, but the price of real trees was obscene when I moved to Texas. So the environmentally friendly solution was to get a really nice artificial tree (especially since the last tree I put lights on was either dyed or sprayed with pesticides -- I had red dots from every prick for a week.) The after-holiday sales obliged, I put lights on it and leave the lights on, and we're happy.

I haven't put it up in years, between going to AZ for the holidays and simple exhaustion. But I have more time this year (no clients interrupting, except the occasional web person) and am contemplating tree-age. I collect unusual things to hang from the tree.

Have purchased copious amounts of pecans, almonds and a bag of walnuts for the walnut folk (me, and one other) for making the best sweet spiced nuts in the world(TM).

(Okay, no trademark, but they really are good. I've astonished people who have gone through dozens of recipes and weren't happy with the results. That good.)

Glad to know the dragon flies. I have a simple hanger maybe a foot across that a cat tried to total while jumping at a moth. But it has multiple breaks -- not sure it can be fixed, or is worth fixing. But it did look nice in the octagonal window, in the house I built in 1991. The huge spiderweb used to be the oval inset of my mahogany front door, until thieves tried to tunnel in through it. It held them off, but was too scarred for the neighborhood. So I got another stained glass windowed mahogany door.