It's The Holiday Season: Holiday Season 2025

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Thursday, December 25, 2025

Holiday Season 2025 - Christmas Eve Day 2

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

New lights for the tree this year. Had to string 'em out to get a visual sense of what I'm dealing with. I bought a number of packs with about 25 lights for a total of 200 lights. I double wrapped the tree using about 175 of them. By the way, the lights are actually pure white even though they showed up looking yellow in this photo. Now I just need to decorate it.

Before putting the lights on the tree I strung all of them out to eyeball what I was working with.

Also set out the stable for the manger scene. Too tired to unpack the whole thing so I just set out the ox. Figured he was probably the first of all of them there. One of the nice things about celebrating Christmas until Epiphany is that I don't feel it all needs to be done by Christmas Day.

Christmas cigar.

Holiday Season 2025 - Christmas Eve Day 1

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Stopped by Lunds this morning to do our Christmas grocery shopping. Busy-ish there but not too bad.

Christmas Eve cigar while Dale was at the gym.

While Dale was still at the gym I hauled the Christmas tree up from the basement. It needed fluffing.

Success!!

Holiday Season 2025 - The Solstice and Cigar Time

Monday, December 22, 2025

Took Calvin to the Mall of America this morning for more shopping. He found a few more things for his collections. He wanted to go to Wendy's for lunch so we picked Mom up around 11:30 and took him there. Afterward we took in to the Mall of America for more shopping and to kill a little time before his flight. Cigar after dropping Calvin at the airport. Photo taken about 5:00 pm. Sun had set about 4:40. Shortest day of the year. Looking forward to longer days. I've heard by the end of January we'll have gained about two extra hours a day. Happy solstice.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Holiday Season 2025 - Whamageddon

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Got Whammed today while I was scrolling Instagram and saw this post.

Holiday Season 2025 - The Porch

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Re-Decorated the porch.

Cigar, Backyard Clean-Up, and Holiday Music

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Warmish day today so I took the opportunity to get the snow off the Adirondak chairs and get them back in the garage.

Lit up a stogie...

...and listened to some music.

Nice to have a break from the more bitter cold we had recently.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Holiday Season 2025: A Charlie Brown Christmas - 60th Anniversary

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

It was 60 years ago today that A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered. It's been a part of Christmas for me for my entire life and I have such fond memories of watching it as a kid. I realize how old I sound now when I speak to people younger than myself and tell them there were only three television networks and no home video or streaming technology at the time so control over what you could watch was extremely limited. This show appeared once a year and if you missed it you missed it!

According to schultmuseum@instagram: "Today marks 60 years since 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' first aired on December 9, 1965. The 25-minute holiday classic was an immediate hit and has since become embedded in pop culture and holiday traditions around the world.

"The program went on to win an Emmy and a Peabody Award, with the latter noting:"Gentleness is a quality that is seldom understood by television writers and directors. A notable exception was a little gem of a show that faithfully and sensitively introduced to television the Peanuts collection of newsprint characters created by Charles Schultz."