The tree is up...

The tree is up and decorated--it came from Home Depot because neither J or I wanted to stand in the cold of a tree lot and pick out a tree. J had the bad luck to get over bronchitis faster than I did, so he went out, bought the tree, pushed it into the back of the truck, and then hauled it up the hill and through the front door. K decorated it, with me on the couch going through the old ornaments and discarding about half. I hadn't noticed before that the feather "bird" ornaments had large parts of their feathers missing, and one of them had been licked bald. I wondered which cat had done that, and looked up to see Stripey biting the lowest branch of the Christmas tree. I expect the cats to drink out of the pan, but biting is new. The base is on an old cupboard door from New Jersey. That thing weighs a ton, but is sturdy enough to support the weight of a much larger tree... and a couple of cats.