I Wasn't Always Scrooge

I've been seeing more than a few Christmas posts around the 'sphere of late and more than a few featuring the ways we decorate for the holiday.  I don't do any decorating at all these days, which is partly a function of my humbuggery and partly because I have absolutely NO space for decorations of any sort.  But it wasn't always this way.  Witness:

Those two pics are from my house in Ferndale, a near suburb of Dee-troit.  The top pic is from around 1989 or so, the second is around 1991 and features granddaughter Anastasia.  I scoured the archives this morning for pictures of other Christmases past and found virtually nothing.  Well... there WERE these two gems:

Heh.  That would be Lil Bucky "Hopalong" Pennington, c.1950 or '51.  We were cowboys then, and young.