All I've still got out is the Christmas Tree with its white "snow" skirt and I can't let it go!!! Maybe this weekend. Besides, des, I have to get a plastic container to store it in. It will NEVER go back in that box it came in unless I mash the devil out of it and I just can't mash it all down again. Took me too long to go over it 360 degrees from top to bottom every limb and bend each separate branch out the way I wanted it. Besides, I'm still feeling holiday-ish. Most of the neighbors don't take their lights down the first week after Christmas I guess in case we have snow or ice later in January, they all turn them on at night. But usually you don't see Christmas lights or trees in the windows here after 1-1. But my tree is in the den so I can light it nights and no one but me knows!
One Christmas my back was out and the tree was still up on Valentine's Day! I had moved it into the front spare bedroom and kept the door to the room closed as I was so embarrassed for anyone to see it, even if I was moaning and groaning.
My next door neighbor had her beautiful blue ?spruce? or ?fir? out on the curbside 12-26-12! It looked perfectly healthy, wasn't dry and it hurt to see that big, tall, gorgeous tree still so full lying there as Tibbe and I walked by. And on the underside of the upsweep, the blue was so definite and so pretty. She almost always has her tree on her parkway and all decorations down the day after Christmas but this year, her huge wreaths are still on the front door and the garage door.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |