Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for November 25, 2012

It’s a WHOLE MONTH TOO EARLY! Why slaughter the poor pines NOW?

I have to agree with the kids on this one…

I beg your pardon… The government goes out of its way to make tax day worse every year.

Apparently, the world will end on Dec. 21. Why buy a tree?

One can always hope this year will be perfect. The memories are important – even the bad ones.

(sigh).

This song sums up the holiday season pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6rVcL3Up8

Get a Christmas tree on Thanksgiving weekend , and the world will end on 22 Dec 2012, when the tree catches fire!

When we bought live, it was a week before Christmas. If the house was warm, we would have to give it a quart of water every 2-4 hours. …. Would still leave a bundle of needles when taken out on the Epiphany.

When we had cut trees, we’d get them early and put them in a bucket of water under the car port. Better soaking up water in some shade than drying out on the lot. It would get decorated 10-14 days before Christmas. It came down on New Year’s Day.A few years before she passed away, my Mom talked me into an artificial tree (we’d had one years before and it finally fell apart). I agreed on the conditions that it be pre-lit and go up the day after Thanksgiving. Now that I’m by myself, I do admit that the fake tree is easier for 1 person to handle.

Artificial for me! I do miss the smell of pine from when I was a kid, but I don’t miss cleaning up the needles!

Now that is always fun.