tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post5797005879756976169..comments2023-12-27T16:41:07.438-05:00Comments on Suldog: Christmas Trees, Past & PresentSuldoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07778845367184916684noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-66997530497630349482012-12-05T01:46:39.879-05:002012-12-05T01:46:39.879-05:00You reminded me of how sad I thought old people...You reminded me of how sad I thought old people's trees were. You know, when you go to the great-aunt's place or the old lady down the street and the place smells like medicine and pee and there's a pot of coffee on you can read the paper through and there's hard candies in a bowl, and the tree is a couple feet tall and sits on a table. <br /><br />And now I can just settle for watching a Christmas tree on television.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-80938817882270093112012-12-04T22:53:34.786-05:002012-12-04T22:53:34.786-05:00You know, all my life I have never actually seen a...You know, all my life I have never actually seen a different-than-green tree in person, save for at the store. I think it could very well be something that someone can do some amazing things with, aesthetically speaking... Still though, we go green...<br /><br />I think it's funny that you name your plants, I do too. I had a ficus named Jerry, and an aloe plant named Floyd back in high school. They too went the way of the... dead plants...<br /><br />I tried to save them, but couldn't get to the root of the problem. I guess it was their time to leaf. Matt Conlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02616567498642991754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-72620248463948405132012-12-04T20:36:52.117-05:002012-12-04T20:36:52.117-05:00Ha! I think that the most wonderful or beautiful ...Ha! I think that the most wonderful or beautiful tree is the one that speaks to your heart. <br /><br />I can't tell you how many trees in our home were felled by cats climbing them in a crazed moment of excitement. It got so bad that we began to tie the tree top to a hook in the ceiling. Of course we lost quite a few glass balls, but what the heck. It was funny to see how much that startled the cats.silly rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313221194740196751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-81725650922781452062012-12-04T01:15:40.157-05:002012-12-04T01:15:40.157-05:00I like any tree that's decorated with love.. f...I like any tree that's decorated with love.. from the elaborate to the Charlie Brown types. I'm certain there's no shortage of love in your silvery tree. Besides, I like shiny things. Need a cat?Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12787493532006658679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-350944603043912192012-12-03T22:43:19.775-05:002012-12-03T22:43:19.775-05:00The tree IS beautiful... but I am feeling very ina...The tree IS beautiful... but I am feeling very inadequate right about now... not only do we have NO tree up, we have no gifts. And probably won't, we're too broke. I will give a bit of cash to my children of course, and something special to my hubby... but he doesn't like it wrapped. :)<br /><br />I enjoyed your trip down memory lane, as I always do. :)Amihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353667980806676067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-87719732376980172722012-12-03T21:51:06.574-05:002012-12-03T21:51:06.574-05:00I love this post! What a great collection of tree...I love this post! What a great collection of trees over the years. I remember the silver trees with the colored light discs - I think my grandmother had one. However, I am completely fond of the tinsel. I adore tinsel! Such good memories of helping my Granny put the tinsel on her fresh cedars that we could go cut out in the Texas forests beside her house. This post brought back fond memories so thank you!CLRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01207164054349835246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-75129298331679043542012-12-03T18:04:16.494-05:002012-12-03T18:04:16.494-05:00That "silver tree with the rotating colored l...That "silver tree with the rotating colored lights" thing must've been popular back in the day, because my Grandma had the exact same thing going on. Unusual, but it was a tradition.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794712479594188124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-89685050949439556362012-12-03T17:53:03.676-05:002012-12-03T17:53:03.676-05:00I like the 5 trees best, but I certainly will not ...I like the 5 trees best, but I certainly will not tell you that a Christmas tree has to be a certain color, green or otherwise. That's racist. Or arborist. Or something. <br />Either way, I like your tree. :)Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14339665205284492242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-44310162114398365902012-12-03T15:23:35.092-05:002012-12-03T15:23:35.092-05:00now you just need the multicolored rotating light ...now you just need the multicolored rotating light to bounce off it! i'm kind of partial to your grove of 5 trees but i am glad you got your silver tree and it makes you so happy. as i type there is a naked tree in my living room. mr. lime and my daughter got it yesterday while i was gone. she was so excited because i told her she could pick it out this year and then my husband spent 2 minutes at the tree farm and announced this was the one they were getting. she was non-plussed. once i haul the decorations out i will let her decorate the thing if it makes her happy.limehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17259558876349307173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-38471498561189289062012-12-03T15:18:41.151-05:002012-12-03T15:18:41.151-05:00I think silver trees are beautiful as long as they...I think silver trees are beautiful as long as they aren't in my livingroom. I think I told you before we had a silver tree when I was growing up (because real ones landed me in the ER with asthma) and I hated it. But sentimentalist that I am, I sure wish I had it now - or at least a photo of it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-74442273779335175162012-12-03T15:02:38.995-05:002012-12-03T15:02:38.995-05:00Benny Grunch has a song called, "I Could See ...Benny Grunch has a song called, "I Could See the Aluminum Tree Through the Picture Window," that i think you would enjoy.<br /><br />Karen's right, it is beautiful.messymimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-2069684098104001592012-12-03T13:20:37.850-05:002012-12-03T13:20:37.850-05:00It's beautiful!It's beautiful!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505134228454833619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-49007467020861047852012-12-03T13:10:45.570-05:002012-12-03T13:10:45.570-05:00A few quick comments/answers...
BUCK said, "...A few quick comments/answers...<br /><br />BUCK said, "Some of this post has a ring of familiarity. ;-)"<br /><br />I answer - Much of this MONTH will have a ring of familiarity. I tend to re-post stuff for almost the entire month of December. There may be an original or two, but mostly old favorites will be on the menu.<br /><br />DARYL spotted her card (from last year) on the door. I hope some others of you did, too! And I hope the same folks - if not more - will help to fill out the door this year, thanks!<br /><br />JACKIE wonders about our mail slot. Yes, it is one. I find it so surprising that you've never seen one in real life. They are as common as dirt in New England. The postman does use it, for the most part. And, yes, that IS an autographed photo from Mister Rogers on the mantle. Good eye!Suldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07778845367184916684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-15875183305625531692012-12-03T11:25:20.458-05:002012-12-03T11:25:20.458-05:00Great post Suldog. Seems to me that a lot of us Ne...Great post Suldog. Seems to me that a lot of us New Englanders have very similar historical (and hysterical) Christmas stories. Real versus artificial, green versus aluminum. I swear some of your photos could've come from one of my family's photo albums of Christmas Past!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-69020896076978911592012-12-03T11:16:24.796-05:002012-12-03T11:16:24.796-05:00P.S....and is that Fred Rogers' photo on your ...P.S....and is that Fred Rogers' photo on your mantle? Love that!!!<br />Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214796594702277709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-37734096831650181282012-12-03T11:14:15.492-05:002012-12-03T11:14:15.492-05:00Love this post! Love Christmas...and trees!!
Is th...Love this post! Love Christmas...and trees!!<br />Is that a mail slot in the door behind the tree?<br />I've only seen those on television. Does your postman(woman) use it? So interesting...<br />Hugs,<br />J.Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214796594702277709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-82164276935855521712012-12-03T11:03:36.554-05:002012-12-03T11:03:36.554-05:00Oh, yeah. Your new tree looks just fine.Oh, yeah. Your new tree looks just fine.(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-55232192516441139392012-12-03T11:02:43.703-05:002012-12-03T11:02:43.703-05:00I have know particular preference for either real ...I have know particular preference for either real or... not real trees <i>[guess I blew that one, huh?]</i>. <br />We've had both.<br />We used to travel into the woods with friends and family to cut a live one. That was as much about the day outdoors as anything else. <br />Recently we've gone for trees from a corner lot. I would go to the High School FFA lot for a tree, but they cut theirs so early the things dry out even when the base is kept watered.<br />All of the paraphernalia came down from the attic yesterday. We may be kinda busy decorating. I'm not in the loop yet.(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-9535924221554670192012-12-03T10:58:09.334-05:002012-12-03T10:58:09.334-05:00Love the silver tree. And the bunch of trees. I ne...Love the silver tree. And the bunch of trees. I need a bunch of silver trees. That would be mega cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-30760070600144691132012-12-03T10:39:38.583-05:002012-12-03T10:39:38.583-05:00you know what i love about the photo of the new tr...you know what i love about the photo of the new tree? i can spot the card i made on the door there behind it .. new card in the works ... Darylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08241795455748298624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-22347902286766480792012-12-03T10:12:10.833-05:002012-12-03T10:12:10.833-05:00Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Now I reall...Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Now I really do have to get my husband off the couch to drag up our artificial tree...it is the 3rd of December already!Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-54542672808118216362012-12-03T10:04:01.936-05:002012-12-03T10:04:01.936-05:00(*sigh*)
You're my friend, Suldog, so I'l...<i>(*sigh*)</i><br /><br />You're my friend, Suldog, so I'll mostly stifle my thoughts on the, uh. . . the. . . aluminum 'trees', nor the. . . (please, God, give me strength). . . (<i>*cough*cheesy*cough*</i>) color wheels. . . If they put you in the proper seasonally-festive mood (altho God knows how they possibly could. . .) <i>(shut UP, Craig; you promised to be good!)</i> (I know I did, but. . . good lord. . .) <i>(You can do this. . .)</i> ( <i>*sigh*</i> you're right. . .), then God bless you. . .<br /><br />Truthfully, though, I can't exactly lay claim to the moral high ground here; when Jen and I were first married, we were at my parents' one Christmas, and happened to catch one of the after-sales and bought a little fake tree (a GREEN one), that we used for ten years or so. Then, when I was reunited with my birth-mother, she mail-ordered us a real tree for a few years (I didn't even know it was possible to mail-order a tree; taking delivery of the 7-foot-long box was a unique experience, lemme tellya). And that made me realize how much I missed that resinous pine-y smell, even at the cost of shedding needles. So we've had a real tree ever since.<br /><br />Here in Michigan, Christmas-tree farming is actually a fairly big business. When I go out on my bike rides through the surrounding countryside, I'll ride past several farms, with acres and acres of neat, linear rows of conical evergreens, at graduated stages of maturity, from this year's new seedlings, which won't be harvested for a few years yet, up to some truly impressive 12-15-footers. The 80-footers that end up on capital and city-hall lawns are grown farther north (I happened to see one of those being transported on the freeway once, with the trunk tied to a pickup-truck's bed, and a little axle tied maybe 20 feet or so from the top. . .)Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12044041773404411751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-59001379805776770392012-12-03T09:49:57.177-05:002012-12-03T09:49:57.177-05:00Some of this post has a ring of familiarity. ;-)
...Some of this post has a ring of familiarity. <b>;-)</b><br /><br />Your new tree is quite festive. I think the modern silver trees are MUCH better than the old aluminum ones, with which my parents had a short-lived fling. They did their aluminum tree up in a monochromatic scheme... all blue glass ornaments in various sizes. That was a one-year only endeavor; we went back to live dead trees the following year.<br /><br />And then there's this... <i>When I got it home, I discovered that it was too tall for our room. I had to cut about six inches off of the trunk. </i><br /><br />We went out and cut our own tree on US Forest Service land when I lived in Oregon (mainly coz we were CHEAP: two bucks for a permit). One year my boss went along with us and INSISTED on cutting down this absolutely humongous tree, against his wife's, his son's, and other interested parties' protestations. So we get the thing back to his house and he cut MORE than a foot off the bottom, a little more (and MORE) off the top, and the thing STILL wouldn't go...<br /><br />In the meantime his wife had made a quick surreptitious trip to the local Boy Scouts tree lot and returned with a suitable tree. That fit. The remaining middle third of the humongous tree was turned into decoration, similar to your pic of the doorway stuff. My boss made me SWEAR to never tell a soul about that, under pain o' death or worse. He was an ossifer and me a sergeant, so I complied. But I never let HIM forget that.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-15460265077989409322012-12-03T09:43:12.725-05:002012-12-03T09:43:12.725-05:00I loved our aluminum tree as well. Loved the colo...I loved our aluminum tree as well. Loved the color wheel!! Yours looks fabulous. Me...I dislike real ones...they shed terribly. And if you have carpet..yikes what a mess!!<br />Hugs<br />SueAnnSueannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299288406218968621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329973.post-43977409098851462542012-12-03T09:13:46.134-05:002012-12-03T09:13:46.134-05:00The trees that entered our house here when I was a...The trees that entered our house here when I was a child, growing up, were just about all sizes and shapes -some very misshapen -because they were hand picked from the woods around and not pruned to become a "Christmas Tree." So trees that have a bit of a strange shape to me are just as beautiful as those that are nicely pruned. Then, as an adult with my kids, we resorted to cheating and buying a fairly symmetrical tree -or at least tried to do that. The last several years, our tree is green but has no needles that shed and no piney scent to it either as it's an artificial tree which is fine by me. I eventually tired of cleaning up pine or hemlock needles for months after Christmas. Plus, if we'd had a real tree I never could have pulled off the stunt of leaving the tree up and completely trimmed too until the following Christmas season. (Saved myself a whole lot of grief, aggravation and time by doing that too, I must add.) This year should be interesting as we once again have a very daring little explorer living with us in the form of Tavie, our little grey kitten, who may just make mincemeat out of our tree and decorations for it too! Say some prayers that she doesn't do too much damage! Jenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425701332785470116noreply@blogger.com