We live in a lovely small town. As a matter of fact, we live downtown in the Historic District. Folks here are rather proud of the neighborhood. Many of the homes are very old with huge moldings, multiple fireplaces, and wavy glass windows. I know you have a picture in your mind right? Our house is one of the newest in the area. It was built in 1972. It may be our favorite house ever. I like living around all the beauty and history, but I really like have walk-in closets, a 3 car garage, and all those sorts of "frivolous things".
One of the fun things that we do as a neighborhood is decorate the area for Christmas. This is the roundabout right beside our house. Isn't it lovely? This year we decided to put a Christmas tree in each yard with white lights. We are on a circle, so it's very pretty to drive through and see all the trees and decorations. Lots of people drive through. We are one of those "must see" places for those in the city to visit during the holidays.
I'm telling you all of this because I want you to fully appreciate the work of my husband. He hung the wreaths on each window, the swags from fronts porch lanterns, the wreaths on our front door, and the tree in the yard. He went to the trouble to put "anchors"(I'm sure that's not the right name) on the tree base that went about 6 " into the ground so it wouldn't fall over. Nice. Well done. However, a tornado came through and knocked it over at 2am. Understandable. A couple of days later, it was on it's side again. Oh, brother. He set it up again. The next day it was down again. Do we have vandals? Well my husband, the engineer decided that he could and would fix this problem. OUR tree would no longer be on it's side during the holidays. Below you will see his handiwork. Think this will work? It's been effective since Wednesday. He thought this was a perfectly WONDERFUL solution to our situation. Can you imagine how much our neighbors like it? I laughed and shook my head most of the night. He wondered if maybe we should swath it in red bunting or something. What do think? (I personally think the guy is losing it!!) Quite the attention getter wouldn't you say?
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Ride around and enjoy the Christmas lights.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Ride around and enjoy the Christmas lights.
7 comments:
Gotta love it- with the history of Gadsden & tiremaking, it's very appropriate, as well as humorous.
I think this will be very popular with NASCAR fans. :-)
Leigh Ann makes a good point! It is very appropriate for Gadsden :-) Maybe you could make a tree skirt for the tire ;-) (or leave it the way it is, of course! Beautiful either way!)
Too funny. Never expected this out of William! You may be a redneck if...
One year we had a mailbox that had a tire as it's base...the neighbors were building and construx crews kept backing over our nice new mailbox. It was quite an eye-catching mailbox! Good for many giggles and no one ever backed over it or stole it either. Merry Christmas and KUDOS to Bill for innovative creative juices. Darien
Mary, I see where it looks like "Kathleen" wrote the comment...that should tell you just how inept I am at this blogging/facebook stuff. It's not Kathleen, it's just Darien :-) Hope it wasn't too confusing
Mary, you & Bill will stay in our prayers as you travel....and well, forever :) Sarah
Loved seeing this post, Mary...I have always loved Argyle Circle...as I grew up in Gadsden.
Praying for you as you travel to Houston. Praying specifically for the doctors to know EXACTLY what treatment is BEST for you....it's in God's hands.
Love in Him,
Lee
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