free4rms
freely admits to licking rocks
My little pet walrus
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Post by free4rms on Dec 22, 2008 11:10:16 GMT -5
I can see now that I should never have used the "12 Days" song in the contest. Now I can't get the song out of my head! I liked Jurrasic Jonge's "genies grinding" part of the song, so that convinced me to send the coral pendant. Pm me with your address and stand by for a package. The prize for the 11th day will be this freeform I made from some really nice Morgan Hill Poppy jasper I won on eBay. I just love this stuff! Here's the photo:  To win today's prize, tell me your best Christmas tree story. Anything from purchasing or cutting down the tree, transporting it, trimming it, disaster stories about trees, you name it. The most entertaining story wins! Vance |
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Post by NatureNut on Dec 22, 2008 11:13:37 GMT -5
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Post by Jurrasic Jonje on Dec 22, 2008 11:32:25 GMT -5
Thanks..... It was fun trying to figure out rock related lines.
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CUL-Ann
spending too much on rocks
rock lover~
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Post by CUL-Ann on Dec 22, 2008 13:13:41 GMT -5
This gets harder every day;-)))
the state has a lot of pines on state ground.
one year we got a permit for $10.00 to cut one from state land, so out we went with the hand saw. I would find just the right one and though the brush and snow we would go just to find that that wonderfully full tree would be 3 trees growing together. Took most of all day looking and when it was about dark we had to make do with a Charlie brown tree.
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Post by Bejewelme on Dec 22, 2008 14:25:27 GMT -5
For me there is no better Christmas tree scene then in Christmas Vacation. I love that movie and watch it every year!!!!
Amber
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Sabre52
Cave Dweller 
Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 22, 2008 16:39:17 GMT -5
Howdy Vance, Just a thank you for the beautiful Rainforest Jasper pendant that came in the mail today. I actually got to look at it before my wife claimed it as her own. She collects turtles and says the color and pattern reminds her of a turtle's back.....Mel
PS: Amber's right! I squirt soda out of my nose every time I watch the Christmas tree stuff in that movie and the cat and the electric cord scene is a hoot too. Of course, I'm not a cat person *L*.
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Post by texaswoodie on Dec 22, 2008 17:35:56 GMT -5
When I was about 6 or 7, we had an old barn in back of the house. That was my "club house". I spent many hours in that old barn and enjoyed every minute of it. One Christmas I decided I would have my own tree. So I went to the woods and cut a cedar about a foot and a half tall. I decorated it with sweet gum balls wrapped in aluminum and strands of popcorn on thread. I don't remember meeting Charles Schlutz, but this has got to be where he got his idea for Charlie Brown's tree. If there was ever a Charlie Brown tree, this was it.
Curt
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Post by rockrookie on Dec 22, 2008 17:46:42 GMT -5
Congrats !! Jeremy ,
no exciting stories . all i got is that my sister always picked the tree ( only daughter that still lived at home ) and 1 year in early 1980's we got a fake which was not unusual . but that year she picked a pink alunimun ,very shiny, very pink . God it was awful !!! i did NOT have any friends come over that year .-----------------------paul
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free4rms
freely admits to licking rocks
My little pet walrus
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Post by free4rms on Dec 22, 2008 18:19:41 GMT -5
BTW, I do have my own Christmas tree story, but I will eliminate myself from the contest! Many years ago my uncle and I went to visit my grandparents out in the country. They had many acres of wooded land and we were determined to find and cut our own tree that year. I found one right away, and it was an excellent tree. My uncle and I looked for over an hour for another one for him. Finally, my uncle spotted a very tall cedar tree that was perfectly shaped. He looked at the top 5 feet of the tree and it occured to him that this would make a terrific tree. So he climbed up the tree (which was a mistake in itself: cedar climbing = intense itching) and cut off the very top 5 feet or so. Wow, what a beautifully shaped tree! A few days later I stopped by to see how nice his tree looked, and when he answered the door, he had a disgusted look on his face. When I walked into the living room, there was the Christmas tree in all it's glory... or should I say the Christmas weeping willow tree?! Because the top of the tree was the newest growth on the tree, it had no strength in the limbs and when he trimmed it, all the limbs sagged down until they were pointing at the floor. It was without a doubt the saddest looking tree you have ever seen! It looked like it had been suffering from a five year drought. He sure learned a lesson that year, and I was very glad I kept the first tree we found that day.
Vance
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DeanW
has rocks in the head
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Post by DeanW on Dec 22, 2008 19:03:37 GMT -5
Wife and I have been remodeling our house now for 4-years straight. The Christmas before we bought this house we were living in the garage of her parents house so we only got a plastic tree. So this is the first time in five years we've gotten to have a tree in our own house! And now we have too many ornaments to fit onto the tree that fits our "new" house (previous house could take a much larger tree).
Dean
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Post by frane on Dec 22, 2008 22:42:30 GMT -5
Our first year living in Israel (with the Embassy there), we were told that a well to do family gave Christmas trees for those at the embassy that would like them. All we had to do was put our name on a list. We did that and it asked how many? That seemed like a strange question so we agreed that all we needed was one. We got the message that the trees had come in, just pick them up in the parking lot. We went out and saw several families picking up 3 or 4. Then we looked at them. They were not really pine trees, more like a cypress of sorts and most were two dimensional. Ours was basically wide and flat. Looked a lot like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. We laughed all the way home. When our son's looked at it, it was priceless. None of us could stop laughing. We all went outside to get rocks to put in a bucket to hold it up. We wired it up for support and put tons of decorations on it. We then sat down and watched the video of a Charlie Brown Christmas. It sure did smell good, but its looks were closer to a flat tumbleweed. Any time one of my son's bring that tree up, we still start laughing. It is one of our all time favorite memories of a tree.
Fran
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karenfh
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by karenfh on Dec 23, 2008 0:06:05 GMT -5
My tree has a Ghost of Christmas Presents!
No kidding!
OK, here's the story.
For the past 10 years, we have had a fake Christmas tree. Not my personal favorite, but hubby Tom was pro-fake.
This year, folks who had moved away for several years returned to the area, and re-opened their greenhouse. Hey, I work at the local newspaper office, and every business in town has advertised with us, including the "new" greenhouse.
So Tom and I decided to get a real tree at the local place.
Beautiful, and it smells great. The branches aren't quite as strong, but oh well, we put up the lighter ornaments, and re-packed the heavy ones.
We have used a little "touch to light" ornament for the past (??) many years. It has always worked well, and we place it on the front of the tree. You touch that ornament, and Presto! The tree lights up.
Well, now the tree lights up all by itself.
I threw some presents under the tree, and WOW!
I took them away, and it shut off.
Put them back, and WOW!
It's done that 3 times, now. I swear to God, folks, I was NOT touching the tree!
The ghost also enjoys sports on TV. Yep, every time Tom sits in his chair, clear across the room, and watches sports, specifically master trick shot pool, the tree glows.
It also turned on when the Scwan's man showed up, not sure what that's about.
I know, I know, it's probably a small electrical glitch.
(Did I mention that we DO unplug it before bed, now?)
But it's kinda fun, to come home for lunch, and see the tree on. While it's still unplugged. OK, that only happened once. But it did kinda make me wonder.
K
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karenfh
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by karenfh on Dec 23, 2008 0:10:59 GMT -5
Can I enter 2 stories? Refer to the saga of poor Herman.
K
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Post by catmandewe on Dec 23, 2008 0:31:57 GMT -5
In my younger and wilder days, I decided that I was going to go into the Christmas tree business. The main problem with this decision was that it was made when they called last call at the local bar. A buddy of mine and I took my old 2 wheel drive pickup, a flashlight, and a chainsaw and headed for the mountains at 2am. We got way up into the mountains on some of the good back roads and started looking for trees, there were literally hundreds of trees that were just fabulous!!
We got to cutting and hauling and quickly filled the back of the pickup up with about 50 christmas trees, then we had to unload all the trees to get the come along out of the back because we were stuck in the snow. After we got unstuck and got all the trees loaded back in and tied down, we headed for home, on the way home we lost our lights in the pickup, electrical short in the high/low beam switch.
So now we are driving home on snowy back highways, about 60 miles from home and using our D cell flashlight as our headlight. Miraculously we make it home just before sunup without getting pulled over or arrested. As soon as the sun started coming up we went outside and unloaded all of our trees all over my front yard. I was going to have the cooooolest Christmas tree yard around!!!!
Well, in the daylight, these trees looked waaaay different, not at all what they looked like in the wee hours. Some of these trees Charlie Brown himself would have rejected.
Not being one to be wasteful, I picked out two of the Charlie Brown trees and put it up in my house (I had to tie 2 of them together to make it look kind of like a tree). Then I made a great big sign that said "FREE CHRISTMAS TREES" and set it up out in the yard.
I only had to haul about 10 trees away after Christmas, as alot of people did actually come get the trees. Many said they could not have afforded a tree that year, so my mangling of the forest did come to some good use.
After that I learned to never pick a tree in the dark, you need light to pick a good Christmas tree.
Merry Christmas.....................Tony
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