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Holiday ornaments, 2017-2020
And we thought 2016 was a dumpster-fire of a year…
In 2017, our old kitty-boy Fuzzy crossed the Rainbow Bridge. It took less than two weeks before deciding that a kitty-less home was unacceptable, and we adopted a new kitty-boy, Geo (the name his previous people gave the shelter, and none of us came up with an alternative). Or, as he’s more commonly called, Boo. In retrospect, we probably should have named him Chewey. 😉 (No photo yet, since I still haven’t made a photo of him to fit in the ornament.)
For 2018, we picked up a Spider-Man ornament somewhere and decided to call it good. Again, no photo yet.
2019: It wasn’t all bad…
2019: Custom “It wasn’t all bad…” ornament from Etsy (JustFollowYourArt).
2020: Another Etsy ornament, “A Year to Remember Forget” (LovelyCuteStudio). The year was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020: A Year to Forget
2020: A Year to Forget
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Belated Honeymoon, 2008
By way of getting this all on our site and not just LiveJournal, I’m copying over the “honeymoon” posts from 2008. Since I’m giving them the date they were originally posted to LJ, I’m adding this to point them out.
Holiday ornaments, 2013-2016
Another catch-up post.
2013: The scroll-work is from the header image for Roland’s “Weaver’s Knight” story, to commemorate his web serial.
2014: Cinnamon stick bundle with brass bell (photo pending). The bell reminded me of a string of “Bells of Sarna” that hung in the house for most of my childhood. Mom had had emergency heart surgery earlier in the year, so when I saw this one at Dragonmarsh it seemed a good ornament for the year.
2015: None of us could think of anything remarkable for the year, but I didn’t want to skip it. So, I went as plain as I could manage — black text in Times New Roman.
2016: It was tempting to go with the popular Dumpster Fire for this year, but instead we went a little more subtle. I couldn’t find a weeping Statue of Liberty, and all of the “Weeping Angel” versions of the statue were snarling, so we just went with a Weeping Angel.
Photo of us
I’m posting this here to show it to someone, and may or may not pull it down afterwards :-). This was taken at Dylan’s high school graduation in May 2010 (has it really been three years already?). Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.
Holiday ornaments, 2009-2012
When we went to set up the tree this year, I realized I hadn’t made notes for the last few ornaments! So, here they are.
Odds and ends
Just some notes as I’m fighting my natural pack-rat tendencies and tossing stuff we don’t really need:
Courtesy cut, since this got longer than I’d originally intended…
Holiday ornaments, 2006,2007,2008 update
(crossposting to morgan_gw and morgan_gw2)
As we decorated the tree last night, Dylan realized he was a few years behind on ornaments. Today, we took steps to remedy that, ordering three ornaments from CafePress. I turn the keyboard over to Roland for the explanations…
Holiday ornaments, 2008
And finally…2008’s holiday ornaments (crossposting to morgan_gw and morgan_gw2):
Gold heart, purchased while on our belated honeymoon (aka our garlic-moon) in February, at the Heart Beat of Big Sur. It’s kind of hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like a heavy glass.
Holiday ornaments, 2007
2007’s holiday ornament (text copied from my Yule Stuff post on LiveJournal):
Holiday ornaments, 2006
2006’s holiday ornament: Let The People Rule Ornament
The Democratic party retook Congress. That didn’t turn out as well as we’d hoped, but at least it blunted the single-party rule we’d had for years.