Random musings

[wart57]

That would sooooo not work in our house wart. We go the real tree route and cut one down. This year's had to be trimmed at the top to fit the 9 ft. ceiling. Hubby has a tendency to pick the biggest, fullest tree he can find! It is beautiful though. Up but not decorated as of yet.

It would work for Jim's puny ass cheap tree. No offense Jim.

[Molly]

That would sooooo not work in our house wart. We go the real tree route and cut one down. This year's had to be trimmed at the top to fit the 9 ft. ceiling. Hubby has a tendency to pick the biggest, fullest tree he can find! It is beautiful though. Up but not decorated as of yet.

It would work for Jim's puny ass cheap tree. No offense Jim.

Shouldn't that be "no offense mrs. jim" since she's the one who purchased it

[jim]

We used to get a real tree. I think it was about 2006-7 the thing was huge, 8' or so, and I didn't realize it when I put it up but it had a bow in the trunk. One morning, about 6am, I hear our 70lb lab doing the scooby doo running in place really fast in a panic on the wood floor but going nowhere trick and then BOOM. Tree down. Ornaments everywhere. I figured it was caused by the dog nosing around in the tree water and gave it to her good. Lost about 4 ornaments.

Put the tree back up, an hour later ... BOOM. This time I saw the dog. She looked straight up at me like "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I have no idea what i have done but I am so sorry.". I felt guilty about that. Lost another 3-4 ornaments.

Put the tree up again, and then I saw the problem. The bow was causing to lean out, so I "fixed" it by finding some thick twine and tying the trunk to a window seal handle. Problem solved. Until....

Time to take the tree down. I hadn't noticed that tying the tree like that it basically spring loaded it. First thing I did, before taking anything off, was to cut the twine. The unsprang and shot another 3-4 ornaments flying.

Lost about a dozen that year.

This year I don't need the stand because with the small tree wedging it between the wall and a couch works ok. It's skrunched up some but otherwise it's fine. Not going anywhere this year. I'll bet that stand costs near what my entire tree cost.

[Molly]

We used to get a real tree. I think it was about 2006-7 the thing was huge, 8' or so, and I didn't realize it when I put it up but it had a bow in the trunk. One morning, about 6am, I hear our 70lb lab doing the scooby doo running in place really fast in a panic on the wood floor but going nowhere trick and then BOOM. Tree down. Ornaments everywhere. I figured it was caused by the dog nosing around in the tree water and gave it to her good. Lost about 4 ornaments.

Put the tree back up, an hour later ... BOOM. This time I saw the dog. She looked straight up at me like "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I have no idea what i have done but I am so sorry.". I felt guilty about that. Lost another 3-4 ornaments.

Put the tree up again, and then I saw the problem. The bow was causing to lean out, so I "fixed" it by finding some thick twine and tying the trunk to a window seal handle. Problem solved. Until....

Time to take the tree down. I hadn't noticed that tying the tree like that it basically spring loaded it. First thing I did, before taking anything off, was to cut the twine. The unsprang and shot another 3-4 ornaments flying.

Lost about a dozen that year.

This year I don't need the stand because with the small tree wedging it between the wall and a couch works ok. It's skrunched up some but otherwise it's fine. Not going anywhere this year.

We had to tie our's down a couple of years when the cats were kittens.

[jim]

My wife and I both have no idea what we are doing when it comes to trees and decorating. She hung some tinsel above the outside storm door that kept drooping down to where you couldn't shut the door. We fixed it with thumb tac's. Not sure how long that will last.

Rubber bands, thumb tacs, twine ... all part of the Christmas decorating scene at our house.

At the old house I even did the outside for a couple of years, we had one big pine tree that I would just heave the lights up there and hope they caught just right not to look to stupid. I'm sure the neighbors loved it, I was like a Cowboy trying to lasso something up in the tree. If I got them up there high enough I'd take a broom stick and kind of poke them around a little bit to even them out. Stopped that ritual when one June day I was cutting the grass and decided to get the mower under the tree real good, and there were a couple of strands of lights I didn't clean up that I didn't see there. Wrapped them all up in the blade. Enough of that.

The problem with decorations is I just don't give a [expletive].

[wart57]

The Leghorn Blows at Midnight (1950)
Foghorn Leghorn: [Sees Henery trying to tie down a pumpkin on a catapult] Now what's that boy up to? Better check on him. Say whatcha doin' there... No, no, you'll never get it done that way, you're not strong enough. You gotta have the know-how.
[Ties pumpkin down]
Foghorn Leghorn: There, your pumpkin's tied down pretty.
Henery Hawk: Got a match, mister?
Foghorn Leghorn: Match?
[Gives him a match]
Foghorn Leghorn: Here you are, boy. Now don't set the world on fire.
[Henery uses match to light candle under the rope holding down the pumpkin]
Foghorn Leghorn: These kids growing up nowadays, don't even know how to tie down their own pumpkins. Why, when I was a boy... Say, I never tied down no pumpkins. Hey, son! Whatcha tying down a pumpkin for?
[the candle burns through the rope, releasing the pumpkin and launching it onto Foghorn's head]
Foghorn Leghorn: Ask a silly question, get a silly answer

[lukethedrifter]

You know someone else touched that coffee cup lid before you did, right?

[stlouie_lipp]

You know someone else touched that coffee cup lid before you did, right?

That's why I grab from the middle.

[wart57]

You know someone else touched that coffee cup lid before you did, right?

That's why I grab from the middle.

I touch all of them.

[Radbird]

Too dry out here for a real tree. Needles start falling off after a week.