A few of my favorite ornaments. And I wonder if any of them get me in trouble with the GWOC crowd.
1) CIL and I visited the Alamo one fall and I found this little gem. A miniature longhorn skull (nothing to do with UT, btw) with a Christmas wreath over one horn and "The Alamo" written on it. One of my favorites.
2) In 2002, I visited Kansas City for a conference and found this at a Pottery Barn. Could not resist as it sure looked like Sooner colors on Santa here.
3) This one will get me in trouble with Anglican, but I can't resist. After purchasing as many coffees in these colorful cups, I can't help but smile when I see this little ornament. Yeah, yeah, I know it is commercial. And it is A commercial. But I like it. And it is our tree.
4) This one will most likely get me on the list of those endangering Christmas in this country. But I don't care. We have never had a good tree topper and while searching for some of my favorite ornaments, I came across Buzz. SOF bought him for me when I was writing my dissertation and he kept a watchful eye over the process. I figured he could do the same for our tree.
The tree looks great. SOF did a great job of picking it out and putting the lights and most of the ornaments on last night.
Now we are ready for Christmas.
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Actually, the *$s ornament doesn't surprise me that much. But I must admit that the Alamo ornament puzzles me. Not there's anything wrong with that. . . .
It's always good to Remember the Alamo.
I thought the saying was "remember the Alamo gift shop."
Nice pictures. Of course, the first one is my favorite.
I still have the coffee mug from that gift shop - I am using a mug that my great grandmother owned this morning though. But the Alamo mug is one of my favorities.
-- CIL
The gift shop at the Alamo? Is that in the basement?
I remember that Alamo mug, CIL.
And no, Ubub, the gift shop is near the back door. If only the Alamo residents had known about it, Texas would be a completely different place!
:)
"The gift shop at the Alamo? Is that in the basement?"
Yeah, it's there right next to yo mama.
I gotcher decorations right here ...
You're just lucky I don't judge Anglicanism by the Anglicans I know. Or something.
My favorite is, of course, Buzz Lightyear.
Merry Christmas everyone--and thanks for letting me hang out here. Hope you all have a GREAT holiday.
Tony, you are more than welcome here. You actually make it livable. Look at these two--"next to your mother" and "got those decorations right here." Sheesh. Without you, and now Mary, Rob, and Steve, it would be wall-to-wall expletive. And don't even get me started on CIL.
Streak, based on your continued harassment of me in your blog and your inability to keep any of your promises, I am unilaterally withdrawing myself from your blog.
-- CIL
I'm sorry, but is anyone else a little weirded out that we're discussing another guy's christmas tree decorations? Isn't there at least a gun ornament you can show us, Streak? Maybe a GI Joe or something?- Later- BB
Nope. Buzz is the only one.
Don't forget--Buzz has a laser. And he knows how to use it!
Merry Christmas Streak! - CIL
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