#18 - 18th Christmas Tree post, NYC

It's time for my Christmas tree blog again this year. Today will be the eighteenth when I post it, I started December 05, a Tuesday.   Click here to see them for 2023-1 for the first and here for the later ones at 2023-2.  

NYC Rockerfeller Plaza Christmas tree

Courtesy of NBC "Today Show", opening photo

No, we weren't in NYC for this Christmas tree time, we have seen it before though.  I like to see the ice skating; this will be there until Spring.  The Rockefeller Center, left out of sight, has shows featuring among other things, the Rockets Dancers. 

To the right, are the windows of the Today Show program, the outside visitors are in the open space between the lighted baron tree and the building.

KP and Mrs. Jim 
on the Today Show 
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Mrs. Jim and KP were there with the outside audience a day in 2022, I caught them with my camera of a saved 'replay' from our TV.   They enjoyed that visit and were enjoying others.  Their words were "We're from Houston!!"

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#17 - 17th Christmas Tree post, Store Colection

Our Walmart Christmas tree section 
[click picture for a MUCH larger view]

Did you buy a tree here, one of Walmart's Christmas sections?  We've had our current tree when we moved here nine years ago.  We bought an 'on sale' pre-lighted seven-footer (much shorter than our former--there we had 19-foot living room ceiling, here it is 23 feet, tree at XXX Department store near us in Katy, Texas.  So far all of its white lights still burn. 

We are greeted at the front door of our Walmart store by this huge blow-up Santa. It is over nine years old; it was here when we came.  

Blow up yard decorations, someone stole our younger daughter's Rudolph from their front yard.  Could it be the ones who stole our wheeled green garbage recycle can sever years ago.

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#16 - 16th Christmas Tree post, a Decoration - 2023

Mrs. Jim's Santa helper guy 

This is Mrs. Jim's LSU Santa helper.  He stays either under our tree or on the hearth.  We got him a few years ago at an After Christmas sale in Houston.  One side of his sales tag says "Handmade" and the other's said "Made in China".  

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#15 - 15th Christmas Tree - 2023 - DirecTV's Tree

DirecTV's 2023 Christmas tree

This came on tonight when we had paused the television.  The TV channels are music, I generally listen to Channel 803, 1960's music.  But I did not know that DirecTV was playing Christmas music on Channel 815.  Will check it out soon. 

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#14 - 14th Christmas Tree - 2023 - Our Tree

Our Burger King's 2023 Christmas tree

Yesterday Mrs. Jim and I had breakfast at our local Burger King fast food restaurant.  We each had a egg, meat, and cheese in a croissant sandwich with coffee and a shared order of fried potato tots.  Mine was sausage, hers was deli ham.  

We used a coupon.  Mrs. Jim's coffee was senior priced, fifty cents, the rest was coupon priced at $5.99.  We have more, they will all expire at midnight on December 31. 

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13th Christmas Tree - 2023 - Our Tree

Our Christmas Tree 
You can click on any picture to make it larger

We didn't decorate our tree this year.  Company has been here and gone to their families, some are off skiing, and we will be alone, the two of us.  That is alright, just that hasn't happened for a long time.  

Below the tree is our Fisher Price Nativity set.  We've had it for a long time.  Before that though, we purchased another nativity set in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, back in 1980.  I may show it later, it is displayed year-round in the bookcase boarding the fireplace.  (See the Snowman hiding behind.) 

  

Santa is to the right in the picture above, standing on the fireplace hearth.  

This is the snowman that was hiding behind the nativity set.  I don't know his history, we've had him for a long time also.   

A note:

I searched for some of our prior trees.  Click here, they are mixed in with a lot of other trees, all years.

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#12 - 12th Christmas Tree - 2023 - Deer

This fellow greeted me as I was to put my Bible on the entrance table at a Men's Room at our church.  He is one of our seasonal holiday time employees. 

From Monday's Houston Chronicle's;

Just the opposite of our daughter's experience with her cat, Dutch.  See my last Sunday's post, 

https://jimmiehov7.blogspot.com/2023/12/05x-5xth-christmas-tree-2023-dutch.html?m=0

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