Eclectic Ornaments

Yesterday I pointed out that we put hundreds of ornaments on our Christmas tree, from a wide variety of sources. Here are some close ups.

There are two UC Irvine ornaments here (both I and one of my daughters went there) and the blue one half seen at the very top is from UC Davis (other daughter). The clear, crystal ones on the right are the annual ornaments from Sporty’s, showing a different airplane every year. In the upper left and lower right are a couple of “stained glass” style ornaments that I got even before I had kids, from a “dollar store” back when my first wife and I were dirt poor for a first Christmas together. They’re among my favorites. Finally, there’s a big, fat ass, cartoon polar bar and cub from ghod alone knows where.

Three bubble lights seen here, a couple more Sporty’s airplane ornaments, another stained glass ornament, and at the top, a hand-made Pokemon ball that one of the kids would have made in school twenty-five-plus years ago.

Same as above, plus an ornament from an trip in the last couple of years, a moose from our Winnipeg trip last year, and a very odd little art deco space capsule with an astronaut on an EVA.

More all of the above, plus a gold foil Wright flyer aircraft that I picked up at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum when I was back there about five years ago for my fifth NASA Social.