[nfbmi-talk] small victory for Nick and I!

[trising]

Hi, this is Terri Wilcox. Maybe this is silly to report this, but I feel 
good about it, so I want to tell other blind people in the NFB about it. 
Nick and I put up our artificial Christmas tree alone for the first time 
yesterday. We had always felt like we needed to wait for a sighted person to 
help us do it. I had read in a Kernel book about a group of blind people who 
did it independently, so I thought why not us. We accidentally put the 
middle section in the bottom, but then could not get the other sections to 
fit. When we really concentrated on which section had a piece that fit into 
another section, instead of trying to judge by size, we got the tree 
together. I had always done my own ornaments, but I had waited for help with 
putting the tree together. Now, we are just waiting for help with the 
lights. We will do two out of three parts independently. I still have no 
clue how two totally blind people can do the lights, but maybe some year we 
will hear how some blind people do that as well.
Terri and Nick