It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....
Portland is not like Tucson. It's cold here, which seems to get people in the Christmas spirit a lot earlier than in Tucson. The day after Thanksgiving, the town officially lit its Christmas Tree in Pioneer Square. (Lent actually saw the pre-lighting one afternoon while he was here). Anyway, there is a ton of greenery around, evergreens, wreaths with holly berries. Pretty cool. Haven't seen that in a while, not even the day before Christmas in Tucson. However, Tucson is pretty great because even though pine trees don't seem to grow there so well (mountains excluded), you can still buy a Christmas tree for $40. Portland is different. There are trees everywhere here. So what do you do? Buy one of the corner stores? Go cut your own? Alas, imagine my great happiness and surprise when Ken tells me the other day that you can rent a live Christmas tree that will be delivered to your door, picked up and then planted somewhere for you. Wow.
posted by Lisa @ 10:08 AM
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ohmygosh that is SO cool. are you going to do it? marsha
It's cold here, which seems to get people in the Christmas spirit a lot earlier than in Tucson. It was 27 here this morning.
I want to comment on the post above, but blogger won't let me right now.
Anyway, you are hereby instructed to attend the beer festival and submit a report for SudsPundit. We need material, and there's not another beer festival in Tucson until on or about your first wedding aniversery.
Yes, was planning on going to the beer festival for sure. Although it doesn't say it on the website, the newspaper put a mini-manifesto together describing all the beers that were going to be present. Pretty cool. I think I'm most excited for the Chimay White, Alaskan Winter ale (brewed with spruce tips) and the Widmer-produced collaborative home brewers beer called Sled Crasher. Should be pretty fun. Free admission. Under a heated tent with music, food & crafts. Samples are $1; full beers are $4. I think our lab's going friday afternoon. hooray!
About the tree, we're not sure yet. Ken thinks they look like charlie brown's tree.
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