I'm dealing with having to decorate the outside of the house for the first time too, Robin.

me too. I have a balcony now! I think I'll just put some nice white lights on the railing.

I don't do a lot of outside decorations mostly a wreath. But I have a huge kitchen window that I like to make a little more festive looking- I put somefancy lights/lanten around it-and clean it up a bit,so it looks less like a junk shop.

I'm thinking of putting a tree on my porch this year. I don't have the room inside: the dog bed takes up a lot of living-room floorspace; but I do have a pretty sizeable glassed-in front porch. And it'll be my first Christmas home in several years, so I'm sort of inclined to decorate.

I woke up at 2 am with horrible cramps, and am now dosed on ibuprofen and not wanting to leave the house. The dog does not find this endearing.

I like a nice string of colored lights along the roofline and a wreath.

My dad, however, took a painting of Jesus he bought from his neighbor and literally bolted it to the front of the house. Then he got busy in his workshop and cut-out a bunch of plywood Santa and elf figures and painted them and stuck them all around the lawn.

Do not follow my father's example.

Yikes, Hec! I love the white lights outlining the house, but I don't think that's gonna fly this year--too much move-in work yet to do. I like the wreath door/garland idea--I gotta see how we get power to the front door. I so love dealing with the early darkness of winter by decorating with lights and I want to find a way to do something.

I so love dealing with the early darkness of winter by decorating with lights and I want to find a way to do something.

A candle in each window is lovely and easy enough to do. And some have light sensors so they'll come on after dark.

Hmm... maybe those are dark sensors.

I'm a simple wreath on the door and white lights on bushes or trees and the porch. I love to see homes lit up during the holidays.

DH would have a neon sign that says "Feliz Navidad", a plastic snowman and a three legged reindeer if he had his druthers.

He's not allowed to decorate.

Fleur Forsyte is such a manipulative little twit. Naturally boys flock to her. Oy.

(pbs. good times, good times...)

I find myself craving garlic mashed potatoes.

I am craving Robin's blue cheese mashed potatoes.

I have blue cheese. And mashed potatoes. Think they can be combined at this late date?