Next Year We're Getting a Festivus Pole

Five, count 'em, FIVE stops later (with baby in tow, in the snow, of course), including 1 failed attempt at stop number four to talk a guy into giving me a tree stand if I promised to pay him tomorrow (since I had no cash, only credit on me at the time), we have acquired a tree stand! Unbelievable. We were this close to decorating the tree in the tub.


Joe with tree stand, Chicago, USA, 2007. (Hmmm..does this remind you of anything?)


Joe with hippopotamus jaw bone, Okavango delta, Botswana, 2004.