{"id":13492,"date":"2008-11-29T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T06:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/29\/thanksgivings-over-lets-start-up-with-christmas.html"},"modified":"2008-11-29T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T06:11:04","slug":"thanksgivings_over_lets_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/thanksgivings_over_lets_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving&#8217;s over, let&#8217;s start up with Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Christmas time ...\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/xmas.jpg\" width=\"90\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>With Jim &amp; Ginger here, it was inevitable that we would set up Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a good thing, mind you. We have a&nbsp;vast expanse of Christmas decor, stored in boxes in the basement for the 2-3 month season. Left to our own devices, we might actually not do anything with it until days before our late-January Twelfth Night Party prep.<\/p>\n<p>But with the in-laws here, and an eager daughter, we can do little but bow to the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Well, bowing was a bit of a problem, as, in carrying a (very light) box up the stairs from the basement this morning, my mid-left back went <em>sproing <\/em>and left me <em>hors d&#8217;combat <\/em>for most of the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Jim, with Ginger and Margie (and, between other play-time bouts, Katherine) filled in, and got the tree up, and decorated, and other its of house-wide accents deployed.<\/p>\n<p>And, suddenly, it&#8217;s the Christmas season. 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