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[hallerlake]

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It used to be traditional to put up the tree on Christmas Eve and leave it up until Epiphany. You're not late at all.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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It used to be traditional to put up the tree on Christmas Eve and leave it up until Epiphany. You're not late at all.

I remember when I was kid we put up the tree on Christmas Eve but only because the tree lots put them on sale and Dad could get one for cheap!

 

[hallerlake]

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It used to be traditional to put up the tree on Christmas Eve and leave it up until Epiphany. You're not late at all.

I remember when I was kid we put up the tree on Christmas Eve but only because the tree lots put them on sale and Dad could get one for cheap!

Well, yes, there was that, too.

 

[Kaneke]

our tree went up Christmas Eve too, not only because that was traditional, but because that's my birthday ...

so no Christmas decorations went up, until after my birthday "dinner" midafternoon, then the tree came in, the ornament boxes were unpacked, and it was like an extra birthday present ... to decorate

also yes, we often got the tree for little or nothing (my dad was a hoarder, went hungry during the Depression and saved saved saved ever after)

I probably won't be on much today, DS and DGD are coming in a couple of hours, am tidying the best I can (not much !), then we will all watch football, and if Hailey gets bored as I suspect she will, we will go out and get a tree, and let HER decorate it ... she's "half past eleven" and smart for her age

found that SOMETHING had been digging near the entrance to the chicken's run, so I filled it in with concrete pavers and a pier block on top; temporary fix until I put a better barrier up there ... was only a four inch gap between the entrance "porch" and the big orebox planter; I rather expect it was Roxy, trying to bury a small stuffed animal, have caught her doing so out in the yard before

but could well have been a predator (the chickens were safely cooped, with the coop pop door blocked)

 

[OrpingtonFreak]

Thanks for the warm welcome. Kidcody has some English jubilees and lavenders.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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It used to be traditional to put up the tree on Christmas Eve and leave it up until Epiphany. You're not late at all.

We always put ours up on the Solstice and take it down on Epiphany- sort of an amalgamation of traditions.

I still don't know how we'll have a tree this year, since Stewie and Lana are at the "agents of chaos" stage of growth.

My best Christmas present to me is that I'll be able to put the EE chicks in the chicken tractor and the Tower of Solitude (assuming as I am that "ve got two cockerels and four pullets) to grow out and that all I have to finish before March is the Hamburg Extension, which is well on its way to doneness.

 

[hallerlake]

My son's birthday is the solstice. His birthday party often turned into a trim a tree party.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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It used to be traditional to put up the tree on Christmas Eve and leave it up until Epiphany. You're not late at all.

I remember when I was kid we put up the tree on Christmas Eve but only because the tree lots put them on sale and Dad could get one for cheap!

We were always cutting and selling trees, and Dad always had one particular good tree which he named ours from the moment he cut it- wild-grown Doug fir, usually, and my dislike of sheared trees now for being weak and distorted comes from having the perfect wild tree every year.

It was the one instance of him being anything but "the shoemaker's children go barefoot" in such matters. We usually had the barren cows and skinny holstein steers in our freezer, when the good beef was sold for mortgage and tax payments.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Wow I just noticed I recently passed 5000 posts. Some times I wonder if I post too much. But then I did a little math. For me the average is 147 per month.

Then I looked at somebody else 207 per month and then there is another at 304 per month.

I don't feel so bad now.

 

[SadieSue]

Good Morning all! I'm a little concerned that I'm so far behind schedule this year. I've been busy with rehearsals for my show that opens in mid - January, but other than a couple of meetings this week with my "stage husband" we're taking a break until after Christmas. Guess I'd better get on the ball. DH and I met DD up in Marysville yesterday. She and her BF finished up with finals at WSU and drove home yesterday. BF lives at Mt. Vernon so we tried to find a good meet up point. It's good to have her home again!

Today we're headed out to Value Village to pick up winter clothing to donate to Hospitality kitchen at St. Leo's. It's the only thing my parents ask for at Christmas time, since they don't need anything. I also had a Holiday Open House and Food Drive at Vino Aquino on Friday with mulled wine, lots of good food, wine sampling and a one day special pricing on our wine. It turned out to be a very good day for the shop, and we collected cash donations for the food bank, as well as over 75 lbs. of food! We had some generous customers this year.

Today DD and I are going to attend "A Christmas Carol" at Tacoma Little Theater before we head out to the mall to (hopefully) finish up any shopping I still have on the list. The rest of the week looks like wrapping, baking, and finally putting up the little tree this year. We haven't gotten any decorations up yet either, so I guess we're in good company.

Things are settling down in the chicken yard. Mona the Araucana is finally learning to play nice with the others, and the Wheaten seems to be holding her own. I'm getting 2 or 3 eggs a day from the Faverolles girls and Bijou, our BCM. Just enough to share with my parents and keep us in breakfast, so I'm satisfied until spring.

The holidays can be stressful for a lot of us, can't they? I say, just do what you can get done and try to focus on what is really important which to me is spending time with friends and family I genuinely care for. Family can be translated different ways..