Time to break out the Christmas decorations and my favorite Christmas Troll Dolls! I have been decorating the house for years with my little colorful and festive so-ugly-they-are-cute dolls.
We also decorated the Palo Verde tree out front with red ornaments today. There will be more decorations to come as Christmas Day approaches. Click on the image to enlarge.
Bob and I were shopping in the old downtown area yesterday. Across from one of the shops on Tegner, I noticed the town had put up some Christmas decorations on the street lights. On the top of the light fixture, there was a cowboy hat reminiscent of that worn by the town’s founder, Henry Wickenburg.
Image: Wickenburg Christmas Hat – click to enlarge
That’s one of the things we love about our town. It, and the townspeople, have character. I remember seeing the hats from last year, but they are a relatively new item in front of the courthouse where the bust of Henry (inset in the photo) has been placed.
Since we’re not going away this year, we’re looking forward to spending the Christmas Holidays here in tow, enjoying the character of our town.
With Halloween fast approaching, I got out my collection of decorations appropriate to the season. They are accentuated with orange and yellow lilies, also good for fall colors. Click on the image to enlarge.
We had a dinner guest today, our neighbor from across the road. Since it is a holiday weekend, we thought it appropriate to grill up a few beef tenderloin steaks. In the meantime, and before the steaks went on the grill, Verna prepared her wonderful broccoli au gratin and Danish stuffed potatoes for the side dishes.
Dinner was delicious and everyone enjoyed the meal. We had a chance to visit with the neighbor and to catch up on happenings in town, since he is out and about much more than we.
The dogs, who tend to be overprotective and territorial, finally settled down after a few minutes and welcomed our visitor as a friend. They must have sensed that there might be some steak tidbits if they were good and behaved themselves. 😉
I decorate our mailbox stand with flowers for every season. I just updated it to show red, white and blue colors for the Fourth of July holiday.
At Christmas time, there will be poinsettias, on Halloween, there will be orange, yellow and brown flowers and in the springtime, there will be bright spring flower colors.
Other times of the year, I will take a notion to just put something cheerful and pretty around the stand (which is a painted old milk can). There is always something I can put there.
I know we don’t get a lot of traffic on our dead-end road, but for those that do pass by, there will be something pretty.
