It's a wrap

Sometimes I forget that our little island is a looong way from the rest of the world.

That idea struck again the other day when we were looking for ribbon to candy-cane the porch columns. Not at the craft store, not at Home Depot or Walgreen's or CVS -- not until the lady at the fabric store directed us to a company that makes gift baskets.

What they had was four inches wide -- the size of the ribbon on the gate -- so we had to hand-split it for the two-inch strips in the fence and on the columns.

But I will say, the half-dozen picture-takers a day lead me to think it paid off.