Re: ok- this is just unbelievable

My family was almost the same Cathy, but a few days before Cmas to Epiphany.
Trying to do everything on Cmas eve is just too much.
Re > (if there are kids in the house, after they go to bed that night)
That would have seemed quite unfair to us kids who enjoyed helping decorate.
And I'm sure Dad was glad to have help with the single strand application of
tinsel.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable


> I come from a tradition where the tree goes up the day before Christmas
> (if there are kids in the house, after they go to bed that night) and
> then stays up until January 6 - the Feast of the Epiphany - the
> original "12 days of Christmas".
> Sometimes I fudge a little on the "up" time, but not on the down!
> Cathy
> On Monday, April 25, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National
> Hearing Center wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit the opposite Andrea,
> > To me, the meat of the Christmas season is the week before and the week
> > after.  I hate seeing stuff up in November, but I also dislike the
> > rush to
> > tear it down on St. Stephen's Day.  In recent years though, I found it
> > was
> > just too much to spend all that time putting up and taking down
> > (especially
> > since there is just me to enjoy it), so I just pared back.  No tree;
> > gave it
> > to my niece.  A few lights, bows, garland across the front
> > porch...er...veranda, instead of strung from the roof.  I hang a few
> > wreaths
> > in the house, put out some Dean Griff snow animals on the sofa table
> > and a
> > few other favorite figurines scatterd about and I'm done.  It looks
> > Christmasy enough, but takes little time.
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "A A HODGES" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:17 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable
> >
> >
> >> OY, I cannot stand that here. Tree comes down day after Christmas and
> >> it
> >> all gets put away. That is one thing I'm pretty anal about. I get
> >> tired of
> >> tripping over, dusting around, or seeing dog chewed Christmas
> >> decorations
> >> about a week after I put them up. This Christmas I didn't even
> >> bother. My
> >> one concession to decorating was taking the three foot already
> >> decorated
> >> tree out of the closet and plopping it on a table. Not in the
> >> Christmas
> >> Spirit this past one......
> >>
> >> A
> >>
> >> Andrea H
> >> Beaufort, SC
> >>
> >>
> >>> [Original Message]
> >>> From: Melody <mhobertm@excite.com>
> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Date: 4/25/2005 1:49:02 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable
> >>>
> >>> Alright...I confess...although I've managed to actually get the
> >>> Christmas stuff taken down before October this year (yes, last year
> >>> it
> >>> was October...dont' know why I even bothered!)...it is all still
> >>> sitting
> >>> in a few boxes, plainly visible to anyone who enters the house,
> >>> waiting
> >>> to be carted up to the attic to be put away. Maybe I'll just give in
> >>> and
> >>> become one of those people who decorates for Christmas year
> >>> round...would save oodles of time and energy, don't you think?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Melody
> >>> Hills, IA  zone 5
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  --- On Sun 04/24, Kitty < kmrsy@comcast.net > wrote:
> >>> From: Kitty [mailto: kmrsy@comcast.net]
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:19:10 -0500
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable
> >>>
> >>> ooops - mine is still up. But it's not particularly Christmasy, a lot
> >>> of<br>copper coloring.<br>Kitty<br>neIN, Z5<br>----- Original Message
> >>> ----- <br>From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan"
> >>> <wmorgan972@ameritech.net><br>To:
> >>> <gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:44
> >>> PM<br>Subject: RE: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable<br><br><br>>
> >>> LOL!!! I love it! I gave my neighbor a wreath a couple years ago with
> >>> a<br>> "fake" bird's nest in it for spring when they first moved in.
> >>> Next thing<br>> you know, I got a call that they couldn't use their
> >>> front door for a<br>couple<br>> of months because a mother bird had
> >>> nested in it. We never did find out<br>> what happened to the fake
> >>> eggs
> >>> that had been in it. Perhaps it's a bird<br>> calling card?<br>><br>>
> >>> (BTW, Bill just took our Christmas wreath down last week.)<br>><br>>
> >>> Blessings,<br>> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)<br>><br>> -----Original
> >>> Message-----<br>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> [o*@hort.net] On<br>Behalf<br>> Of Donna<br>>
> >>> Sent:
> >>> Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:35 PM<br>> To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>>
> >>> Subject: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable<br>><br>> First off, I
> >>> shouldn't show you this...but it is so unbelievable, I just<br>> have
> >>> to. You have to see where the birds made their nest this
> >>> year!<br>><br>>
> >>>
> >>>     http://snipurl.com/e7qs<br>><br>>
> >>>
> >>> Donna<br>><br>>
> >>
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