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I mentioned that our outside lights are up and running.

Flash, flash. Twinkle.

Now we are into the second day of our annual advent "tree". It is an advent calendar made of two wooden trees that we bought a long time ago. One tree was not enough. The two somehow satisfy. So John glued them together.

There are a set of little drawers at the bottom and each holds two little ornaments.

We take turns opening a drawer and putting the ornaments on.

This is done together of course.

After 40 years together there are a lot of little traditions that are followed without question.

Very few are given up.

This one is sure to endure because it is a lot of fun. Even Marcus, who has seen two of these ceremonies, gets excited. Not that he has a clue WTF is going on.

He is not our child by any means. He is a wonderful dog who has a sixth sense about what is happening in the house. So we include him. It makes him happy. Us too.

At this holiday time he makes a good surrogate for other family which is so far away back east.

Labels: holidays, traditions