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[Alaskan]

Beyoutiful..... Awesome to be part of such a community

Thanks... I sure like being able to walk to church.

Everyone gets to church when they are done getting ready and doing chores... no one person makes other people late.

 

[chickisoup]

Must be hard to keep presents under the tree, mounted on the ceiling.

Or you could use one of those fishnet "hammocks" they sell you hang in the corner for putting the kids' toys in. Hmmm, might be an idea for our presents and throw in some lights and a couple ornaments. Yes!

 

[perchie.girl]

I'm seriously considering just skipping the whole tree thing this year. We have some beautiful decorations and may just go with those. In our little home even that requires quite a bit of shuffling & storing things. Since we won't have any little ones coming to visit, I don't think it will be missed too much. Besides, should we expect some last minute visitors we still have lots of outdoor lights we could toss on one of the trees in the yard. (we don't normally put up outside lights anymore either because the deer don't seem to appreciate them and the bear just sleep thru the whole thing).

How about just a fragrant Wreath....
deb

 

[Alaskan]

How about just a fragrant Wreath....
deb

Yeah.... could cover that in ornaments

 

[chickisoup]

How about just a fragrant Wreath....
deb

That's an idea. We always cut fresh Balsam boughs anyway to lay in the fireplace when not in use to give that wonderful Christmas smell to the house and I always toss some of the twigs in the water steaming on the stove to keep humidity in the house when the temps drop below zero. I think I still have a wreath hoop or two stored in the garden shed. That's a big cottage industry up here in the fall and early winter. Women making wreaths for the tree lots to ship south and guys out in the woods cutting boughs which the wreath makers pay for by the pound. I don't have my wreath pliers anymore but I'm sure I can manage. Guess I better grab my snowshoes and snow skid in the morning and get out in the woods before that cold snap hits later in the week. It's supposed to drop the windchills below zero.
Thanks for the idea Deb and Alaskan!

 

[room onthebroom]

Be inventive.... Turn it upside down and nail it to the Ceiling.... Solves the cat issue...

LOL.

deb

Do you watch Victoria on Masterpiece? Last season they had a Christmas episode where all the Christmas trees in the palace ballroom were hanging right side up from the ceiling. It was beautiful. I wonder if that was an old English or German thing?

 

[sourland]

I'm finished !

Lights on the house are working, and lawn ornaments are in place and lighting.

Yesterday roof lights were being 'B' breakers and caused multiple trips up the ladder until I thought I had resolved the problem - NOT ! Anchors for the lawn ornaments and photo sensitive lighting controls were nowhere to be found. Last night we bought new/better anchors and new lighting controls. Today the Princess found where she had put the missing stuff. In her decorating frenzy (every room in the house is 'Christmasized') she had moved them from their designated space and placed pillows on top of them. They were hiding in plain sight.

 

[room onthebroom]

Hey WV. I saw this in the store today & thought of you.

 

[WVduckchick]

Hi Ponders
Whew finally caught up. Cute piggies (do NOT like pork however, except bacon. Bacon has to be a completely different meat, right?)
Wow Phil, hope your wife is feeling better and the doc has some answers for you both.
We only got a few inches out of this last snowfall. Just enough to drag out the snowthrowers. Really heavy stuff. Now we have to make an extra trip to town to restock our supply of shear pins.

(actually have managed to lose 15 lbs. Just by cleaning up my eating habits. Even managed to not fall off the wagon during all the Thanksgiving cooking and company. Guess having your doc scare the heck out of you really does work )

a scarf.


for 15 pounds. Are you shooting for more?

Makes me think of my late MIL. She had asked DH to teach her how to shoot the .22 so she could shoot the bunnies that kept raiding her garden. One day she called and told us that she shot a skunk. And then went on to tell us that she only wounded it, wasn’t able to hit it again to kill it, so she had to beat it to death with a 2x4. Then had to bury her clothes and shoes. That ended her career as a sharp-shooter.

Oh lawdy!
No 2x4s for me, but I suppose you can figure that my first shot missed, which was why he sprayed. I shot a few times before they told me the gun sight was off. Neighbors gun.
(All I had was a pistol on me, and I wasn’t about to get close enough for that!)

That looks like where a toe would bump the wire going in or out ?

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I actually tried straightening the wire, and popped it out and back in before I took that pic, so I’m not really sure. Although I did catch a possum in the live trap the next night, so I’m assuming he was the culprit.

Do you watch Victoria on Masterpiece? Last season they had a Christmas episode where all the Christmas trees in the palace ballroom were hanging right side up from the ceiling. It was beautiful. I wonder if that was an old English or German thing?

Strange, I tried to enlarge the pic by clicking on it, and it took me to duckduck something website.
Looks cool though.

 

[WVduckchick]

Hey WV. I saw this in the store today & thought of you.
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Awwww!