Christmas trees
Friday, December 24th, 2004 - 12:25am
Post yours! The one below is the work of Mrs.Gorilla, or "Hedgehog"... Due to a choice of "blue" theme this year, it came out exceedingly Chanukka-ish.
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Here''s mine. Threw it out on the porch after the stupid thing made me sick.
Don't be saucy with me, Bernaise. - Count DeMonet
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Nice ribbon!
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Good to see you went all out decorating, Fletcher. And remember, nothing says ""Thanks for making me sick, f*cker"" like a cozy Christmas Tree fire.
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Wish I could burn the bastard, but this is Boston. There''s at least three separate laws against that. I''ll just leave it on the porch until the Christmas Tree Disposal Crew comes around in January.
Don't be saucy with me, Bernaise. - Count DeMonet
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I always had a fake tree growing up, and my wife had real ones. My fear of death by fire always had us using a fake tree for many years, but one year I relented. We went to a tree farm and cut our own, happily bringing it home and setting it up.
A couple weeks later, the house was miserable. I was fine, but my wife and all the kids were itching and sneezing to the greatest of their ability. Finally, on Christmas Eve, my wife angrily tore the decorations from the damn thing and tossed it out on the street. The artificial tree came out of storage and saved the day.
To this day, real trees are only referred to in our house as ""itchy torches.""
"Raise high the black flags, my children."
-- Gebhard von Blucher.
I had an anaphylactic reaction to a tree bought at a tree lot once - turned out they had sprayed the tree with a fire retardant that I''m allergic to. Not a fun day! Needless to say, my family loaded up the tree and took it back to the lot. We ended up getting another real tree from a cut-it-yourself farm who never sprayed their trees. I''ve never run into this problem since then, but I''m always terrified to bring home the new tree for fear of that reaction. I probably need an artificial tree, but I just love the smell of a real Fraser fir...
This year, our tree is a smaller one, set up on a table, in honor of Elysium 2.0, who is 15 months old and full of mischief. We''ve made sure all ornaments are totally out of reach. hopefully next year he''ll be old enough to understand that you don''t dismantle the pretty tree.
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- Dr. Martin Luther King
Anyone else have the ""dog tail issue?"" When my pups get excited near the tree they send the unbreakable ornaments hung low (learned at great expense) soaring across the room.
Good thread idea. I need to go home and post some pics of my geekier ornaments.
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Oh yes. Dog tails have made quick work of some cherished (by my mother and wife, anyway) ornaments. And then there were the ones that were shellaced marshmellows and gum drops... those only made the animals somewhat violently ill. Nothing like 15 year old candy covered with polyurethane to bring in the Christmas spirit.
I have always used fake ones my whole life. Cheaper, not a mess plus more convenient.
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Gorilla 3.0 is 14 months old. He is so far kept at bay fomr ornapents and lights by the extremely prickly branches.
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We got the first tree sold at Home Depot near us a few days before THANKSGIVING.
The wife was in a festive mood, called and they said they had trees.
We went there and they stated they weren''t actually selling them yet, but they would if we wanted one. We did.
Looks pretty good, nice to have a real tree in our first house!
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Yeah, with my lifelong allergies I''ve always had fake trees. We didn''t put up the tree last year cause our puppy was 1.5 years old, and 60 lbs...(note my avatar). My new theory is ""nothing you care about in the bottom two levels of branches.""
Let you know how that works out.
We have a fake tree, wife doesn''t care for real ones, my parents have a real one. Our new cat we got this year however likes to climb in the branches of it, and he doesn''t like Angel ornaments, keeps pulling them off, but only the Angels. The other two cats and the dog don''t mess with it though.
Wannabe priest with a sword....
I went to sleep one morning (working graveyards) and when I woke up the little Christmas spouse which incidentally rhymes with elfs (kinda?) put this up. I was floored. She also painted all of the windows with fake snow, applied snowflake stickers and even hand painted Rudolph on one of them.
It took the cats 2 weeks to remove 1/4 of the decorations from the lower half of the tree.
If we allow these people to marry, they'll be dancing in the streets, making everyone gay and poking pee-pees together. Do you really want that!? We need to stop this gay madness before it destroys us all! - baggachipz