Dialogue while decorating the tree and listening to Handel's Messiah...

We decorated our tree yesterday.  The following are bits of conversation between C.Z. and me as we decorated.  If you knew which person said what, you might be surprised.

"You mean I've finally graduated to the front of the tree?!" (Maybe that one isn't so surprising.)

"Aren't you glad we've got a good oratorio in English?..."

"...except that every time I hear 'We Like Sheep,' I think of Monty Python."

"Oh, like the Flying Sheep?"

"Yeah.  I know being a sheep is supposed to be a theological insult, but that music is so cute and perky."

"Draping beads has more rules than first species counterpoint!"

(Holding strings of beads) "I feel like a lady in waiting."

"And now the fun part--the ornaments!" (as the "Hallelujah Chorus" unexpectedly begins)

"This little bird is shaped just like a piece of garlic." (Not the one in the picture, actually.)

"I've got a A to a D, but the D is a little high, so it's a tri-tone."  I begin to hear Mary Had a Little Lamb, Carol of the Bells, and then before I know it, decorating is forgotten as C.Z. runs around the tree playing tunes on her bell collection with a pencil.   

We did eventually finish, though!

P.S.  I have no idea what's going on with the color, formatting and underlining in this post!