General Discussion & Chat: Christmas trees, 1 by Wintermoor

Wintermoor wrote:
This must come under the heading of "What Will She Think of Next???"

We always had Christmas trees as our wee boy was just growing, and still expected Santa to come bye with his sleigh and reindeer. He didn't dare ask how he got down our non-existent chimney. We had a normal Christmas tree until about 5 years ago, until he said he would like something different, something special. So SWMBO made a 11ft cactus, and covered it with lights. I came back from a visit to Scotland, and there was this enormous cactus with little white lights all over standing in the corner of the gallery. At first I thought it was real, but after cleaning my glasses realised that it was home made. A Christmas cactus !! Sadly I didn't take a picture of it, but we've still got it in the cellar, maybe it'll see the light of day sometime again.

BUT THIS YEAR, not being practising Christians, SWMBO decided to go completely Pagan, and now in ancient Germanic tradition, we have brought a tree, which was blown down in a storm, into the house, to give it warmth, and shelter. The only difference from ours to the ancient Huns, is that ours have electric lights, whereas the Ancients would set little lights under the tree to keep it warm. This tree will be replanted in the spring at the same place it was found, and hopefully will grow again.

Here's a picture of our Christmas tree for 2002. Somehow I wish we had the Christmas cactus back ;-)


Wintermoor


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