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To: Rambi who wrote (56912)	12/11/2000 10:06:19 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Chris was also in a bad mood this weekend because of Christmas lights. He bought some of those icicle lights and was going to hang them from the roof, but the slope on one side of the house is too steep for him to put a ladder, and he doesn't want to climb on the roof. So he put the icicle lights on the arbor, instead, but he's pouting. We haven't bought our Christmas tree, yet. The furnace dries out the air too much for one to last more than a couple of weeks, so we put one up the week before Christmas. I collect Christmas ornaments, but am rather picky - usually only buy one or two a year. All of the government institutions around here sell gold-plated commemerative ones, and so far I've got the Library of Congress, the National Zoo, the National Archives, and Monticello. I want one of the White House because it's the 200th anniversary and they've got special ones just for that, and I also want one for Congress. I am looking for a Millenium one - next year, after all, will be the REAL beginning of the new milllenium. But have had no luck. I turned up my nose at the 1999-2000 ones but now I fear maybe I should have bought one. And I kept looking for one with a computer and a Y2K, but I never did. I bet if I did a google search I could find one on the Internet.

To: Rambi who wrote (56912)	12/11/2000 10:22:23 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Now see, the most interesting things always happen to you. I have never had a Christmas tree fall on my head. Not once. In my whole life. I bet it happens all the time to you. I did not even bother to get out the antique ornaments this year- we only put up one tree and I let the kids decorate it. I gave them about 150 large multicolored candy canes and all the unbreakable ornaments and garland and they did a marvelous job. Of course we always use an artificial tree- maybe that's why we don't get to enjoy it falling over. It has nice sturdy feet.

To: Rambi who wrote (56912)	12/11/2000 12:36:27 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

St. Louis! thank you he guided me through the highways and byways of his area so often we thought it was about time we met [not to mention I need his dimensions for the cloning] he told me to look for a blonde Adonis, so I'm sure he'll be easy to spot xmas trees are truly a religious aspect of the season. they always make me invoke the lords name!

To: Rambi who wrote (56912)	12/11/2000 2:22:40 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We put the tree up, and just as I was putting the last ornaments on the bottom branches, congratulating myself for my patient and artistic placement of each ornament, the whole perfectly adorned damn thing fell over on my head. Ten feet of it. 500 lights, a zillion ornaments. So where's the video? You could make a mint on a Funniest Home Videos reprise. I finally broke down and bought one of the really heavy Beans tree stands. Big bucks, but it is solid. Would take a lot to tumble our tree. We're actually a tad taller than yours -- we have a 12 foot ceiling and I had to lop off the top of the tree to keep it from hitting the ceiling. Two ladders, but no 500 lights -- in our case only 8 strings of 25, or 200 total. But they're the big lights -- do you use those, or the small ones? My job is the lights, then the wife and daughters put on everything else. A zillion ornaments sounds about right. I keep saying we should just buy an artificial tree -- there's so much stuff on it you can't see the tree anyhow. But I get shot down every year. So once again in bitterly cold weather we tromped out to the tree farm, which isn't really a tree farm but is what someone once started thinking they wanted a tree farm but totally neglected and now the Lions just go and sell you-cut trees for $30, which is cheap enough. But it's really hard to find a good tree, since they haven't been cared for at all. And they were planted too close together because they were all going to be cut when five or six feet and now they're towering up and crowding each other out. Oh well. After an hour of tromping everybody (except me -- my opinion doesn't count) settled on one and I cut it and of course it was in the middle of the forest and half a mile from the road, so such fun getting it OUT to the car. Whee. Christmas comes but once a year. Thank God!!