We used to go all out with lights and everything, but my wife has gone to a less is more attitude, this year it's boughs under the windows, with raffia bows, and a wooden star she made, with a single spot on the front lawn, on the garage we have a tin star. The Christmas tree is standard with various decorations we have collected over the years, we'll put it up around mid December.

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SILENT DUSTY

"...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him."
- General Ulysses S. Grant