Holiday DIY Tomato Cage Tree

• String of 100 lights
• Upside down tomato cage
• Outdoor garland
• Twine and or rope
• Outdoor planter with opening to fit bottom of cage; and filled with soil to anchor the display

Secure the tomato cage’s 3 ends at the top.

Wrap the garland around the cage 

Wrap the lights over the garland, taking care to have the female plug opening facing down inside at the top. At the bottom secure the male plug with twine. 

Drill 1/4 inch holes in planter a few inches below the rim and above the soil in the planter.

Secure the cage to the planter with twine or rope.

How Far Away Is the Future?

This is how the news headlines nowadays read to me. Somebody I’ve not heard of did something I don’t ‘t know anything about. 

In business and politics, I believe, that is the nature of the beast. It still leaves me feeling disconnected, questioning what does the 4th Estate engine look like. 

Right now, grasping the magnitude of what AI

is doing to life as we knew it, is very important. What will happen has left the station. The what  via AI is transforming now. I opt to read the AI search blurb more now because I know it can deliver.  Business is doing the same.

A big what to me is, after businesses using AI cut costs by eliminating people jobs, what power does consumers without jobs look like? Where is the balance going to happen when unemployment funds run out? Add in that robots in industry have replaced people, and the reality of scary becomes more real. 

As consumers, do we have any power over how far AI in business goes? I for one, do not want to buy goods transported by driverless trucks.

Will AI replace us with consumer robots? Now that is scary. 

Reflection Monday December 2025

Thinking about 2025, are you feeling the beautiful memories over the imperfect ones?

Life is textured by emotions

over the structure of events.

Start your day with

Faith, Love & Purpose