The photo above shows our home for Christmas...

Here in Canada getting the tree was a lot of fun... Ginny and I headed out in foggy conditions, snow everywhere and a bit of ice on the road. Carefully we made our way to a farm up the valley. Christmas Carols were playing and the setting was festive. The young lady helped us pick the perfect tree (are they all perfect?) and then stuck it in the 'shaking machine' to get off all the snow and loose pine needles. It was a beautiful young spruce tree (did you know that if you buy them in the pot over here you have to keep the tree indoors for the rest of winter because the warmth of the house wakes the tree up and you cannot put it out in the cold after that!)