RE: ok- this is just unbelievable

Competition with the Griswald's Cyndi? LOL! 

Kitty, I do put it up usually at the beginning of December, about the first
weekend, maybe 2nd. But St. Stephen's Day, and WHO may I ask is that? I'm
assuming that's right after Christmas....I was raised Baptist, they don't
do Saints. By then I'm just sick of tripping over stuff. I actually have a
lot of stuff when I'm in the mood. This season was just so wretched I
wasn't up for it. NO Christmas spirit at all. I have a feeling this year is
going to be different. I'll send pictures......
A

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC 


> [Original Message]
> From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ AFFTC/ITSR <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 4/25/2005 11:24:40 AM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable
>
> I hate to admit it but my husband last year got the Christmas lights bug
in
> a big way. He's doing his best to turn our front yard into one of those
> places you drive by just to gawk at. He bought so many of those animated
> lighted deer whatsits that he is blowing out the circuits on the timers
that
> turn them on and off (fortunately not the house circuits. Yet.) He had to
> buy a little storage shed to keep it all in, after I objected to him
filling
> the entire guest room with boxes. The problem is that we have a very large
> front yard. In fact you could put about 4 tract-home front yards into ours
> with room to spare. So he's loaded up the place with all these lights and
> things, and still disappointed because it doesn't look full. I pointed out
> that if he actually did fill it up you'd be able to see our house from 15
> miles away, but I think that only encouraged him. 
> I do the inside. We have a decorated tree and a few candles. I admit the
> lights look, ummm, festive but what a lot of work. 
>  
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:04 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] ok- this is just unbelievable
>
>
> 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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