Bill Roper's Journal

The Christmas tree is now decorated, with a lot of help from the kids.

Tomorrow, I am going to try to do the recording to finish up "Liftoff to Landing" so I can get it off to the duplicator. We'll see how that goes.

Gretchen and I went to Home Depot today and I picked out a Christmas tree, which is now standing in the living room waiting to be decorated. It is not as tall as I would like, but there were no taller trees available. It *is* quite nicely shaped, so that worked out. Normally, I get a Fraser fir, but I liked the look of this Noble fir better, so it followed us home.

In terms of things that might follow us home, it was *much* cheaper than a Taylor AD27.

Gretchen and I went out to the Rack House for lunch today (I did not want to read a newspaper while trying to talk to my lovely bride) and had some very nice burnt end sandwiches. After a suitable amount of straightening up of the living room, we gathered up the family and went out to get a Christmas tree.

I miss our old tree lot. The new tree is very nicely shaped, but *much* smaller (and cheaper!) than our recent trees. There are a lot of ornaments that simply won't get hung this year, because there is not enough space above what Gretchen characterized as the "Dog Line".

But it will be a nice tree.