Nothing exceeds like excess

We went to MARC -- the daycare and learning facility for the developmentally disabled, with the best plants in town -- for a wreath for our door a few weeks back.

It was a lovely little thing, in fraser fir that smells quite wonderfully out of place in the tropics.

But then there was Wednesday. La Te Da was having a wreath auction benefiting AIDS Help, and one thing led to another.

Actually two others, after a few cuba libres. We picked up JT Thompson's lovely eucalyptus wreath, which is now scenting the entire house from its spot above the flitch beam, and this from J-Ho, with his signature starfish, plus sea urchins, balls and deely-bobbers we had to wrestle into place to get the damned front door to close.