Christmas Tree Ornaments - Elder Sister

 

Christmas Music

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I will be putting up my Christmas Tree early this year (Sept. 17th)...

to celebrate my one year anniversary of living in my final home in Colorado.

My elder sister had sent me these tree ornaments for my Christmas Tree.

They just arrived today in the mail.

Thank you, Elder Sister!

The cute animal theme matches the theme of my mountain and forest living.

Once I put up my tree on the 17th...

I will be doing a zoom live feed with my sisters who live in Nevada.

This way they can celebrate with me.

I will take pictures of the event and blog about it...

of course.

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Again...

although I am not religious in any way (I have never been)...

I still love Christmas Trees...

as they remind me of my childhood of looking at the Christmas lights...

not only on our Christmas tree at home...

but of the neighborhood Christmas lights.

I remember listening to mostly classical music of the romance era

(my father had multiple records which I played on the console stereo

in the living room...it was state of the art for the time...

a multiple stacking album auto phonograph)...

as I would spend hours on end...

just staring at the Christmas Tree lights.

I just loved the multicolored tiny translucent tree lights.

I would also sit on the curb outside at night while listening to a handheld 

transistor radio as I looked at the neighborhood Christmas house lights...

again...

for hours on end.

Anyway...

I will be staring at my own tree from now on.

Eeesh!

These will nicely match the ambiance of my home.

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This Saturday...

I will be attending another meet and greet function

at our neighborhood mountain community center.

It will be a make your own pizza night

(they provide the ingredients and will bake it there afterwards).

I will take photos while there.

Although they have multiple events going on almost every month...

I usually only go when they have food  :)

(I am a guy...we all love food.

If you are an event planner...

have good food...

most men will show up  :)

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Later this month...

I will be attending a fire mitigation team meeting.

It will be a pot luck...

and I will be making and taking Pad Thai for us to eat.

There are a dozen or so members on the committee...

so...

I will be making a whole wok full.

In the future...

I plan to take my Green Thai Curry.

I am telling you...

my two Thai dishes are excellent

(as you can tell...I am not a falsely modest man  :)

I call my dishes...

Mountain Man Pad Thai...

and Mountain Man Green Curry.

I make them for hungry no nonsense men to eat...

(Yeah...all for me :)

I put over a pound of meat in every serving of Pad Thai...

and a half a pound of meat in every serving of Green Curry

(my green curry is also an excellent stand alone soup).

No restaurant gives so much meat...

and no restaurant can put in the flavor that mine delivers

(mostly because I tailor fit the taste to my own).

I am sorry (excuse my arrogance)...

but I put ingredients in that would be prohibitively expensive for a restaurant to use...

or are not used because it is not traditionally used.

And so...

I will now never need to visit a Thai restaurant ever again...

as my two dishes are better than I will ever be able to get in any of them

(I am very unforgiving of restaurants that skimp on ingredients).

Now that I have my two favorite Thai dishes down pat...

I will start researching other country's food...

especially if there are no existing restaurants of those countries anywhere nearby.

I like to focus on meals of which I may batch cook and freeze...

or, at least ones I may make in bulk and refrigerate and eat over several days at a time.

Again...

in the future...

I will also be trying to master Texas BBQ

(once I get a BBQ/Smoker).

Of all of America's food...

I think it is the most Americana.

One other dish I want to make...

I so wish to make the perfect Taco.

I know I love crunchy ground beef tacos the most

(I once ate 15 of them in a sitting...decades ago...

they were just so delicious).

I will have to make the ground beef with the right spices...

and I will then have to either buy...

or make, my own sauce.

But...

that is also in my future plans.

Tacos are some of my favorite of foods.

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My Japanese Maple is still doing okay.

I won't be able to judge much until next year.

Over the winter...

the roots will continue to grow while the rest of the tree will be dormant.

The real test will start in the spring.

I will be measuring the growth rate so I may project

the needs of the tree in the future.

I will soon have to start digging my second Japanese Maple tree planting area.

I will be ordering another 100' expandable hose soon...

as I will need to do some weekly deep watering of the new tree at the rear of my home

(I do the same for the Japanese Maple in the front as well).

I ordered a garden partition wall to make a dam around the drip lines of the Maples...

so I may contain the water until it fully soaks the soil just where I would most need it...

 where the roots are (expandable for the future).

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I am thinking of making something to eat...

and then perhaps laying down the first track for my cover song.

I don't yet know how it will go...

but the classical guitar introduction portion is relatively short.

So...

once that track has been recorded...

I may move on to the 12 string guitar portion...

which will be long...

and of which I will need to practice much...

not only because of its length...

but I will have to condition my left hand to the increased pressure needed

to ensure all of the strings ring out as I play

(the few times I have tried recently...

I had found my left hand cramping after playing for a while).

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Anyway...

I also wish to start outlining my next book series.

Perhaps this winter.

I have so much to do outside that I will be busy all Autumn.

Weather permitting...

I also plan to go on a sunset trike ride with Bandi this evening.

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As always...

design your life with the appropriate amount of carrots.

I always have something in which to look forwards.

It is what makes living life so wonderful.