The Great Secret...

The great secret...

Is not having bad manners or good manners...

but having the same manner for all
human souls.

In short, behaving as if you were in
Heaven
Where there are no third-class carriages,
and one soul is as good as another.

~George Bernard Shaw

Oh Christmas Tree

Yesterday was picture perfect. After birthday lunch for our roommate Andrea (hooray, she's 21 and legal!), we hiked out to Grandpa Troost's Christmas tree field and picked out our lucky blue spruce amidst the falling snowflakes. Upon getting it home and drying it out, we set about decorating. Below is the result:



I know the picture is a little dark, but that way you can't detect the gentle lean that our tree has going on. Those tree stands are a pain in the neck!



We had a great time putting on the bulbs and our favorite sparkly silver stars. My favorite ornaments were a pair of glass stiletto heels that my friend Samara sent me a couple Christmases back. A bottle of Fizz from the L. Mawby winery in Leelanau was a perfect compliment to the evening.

Hope all of your tree decorating festivites were as enjoyable as ours!

All Is Not Lost

Well, there I go opening up my big fat mouth and this is what happens...



Snow. Lots and lots of snow. But it does look quite pretty, especially along the Rogue River in Rockford where my roommates and I stopped to shop this morning.



This is my roommate Meghan and I on the dam. It was a gorgeous day with lots of sunshine. Seems like Mother Earth is feeling like her old self again...