Live Trees Please

 

 

From: Chuck Darling

December 3rd, 2025

 

 

My Dad used to bring home

Live Trees, but after he went

to his reward, my Mom

couldn't be bothered with one,

((She had allergies, and we lived upstairs...))

and so we relied on

Artificial Trees.

 

The second year of our

Marriage, we waited a bit

too long to find a tree.

 

We finally found a

"Charlie Brown" tree,

that was rather small

and sparce, but shaped well.

 

As you know, you must 

cut off the end of the tree,

to expose live vascular tissue,

or else it won't last.

 

I cut the trunk twice,

and saved a disk,

which I lettered with

India Ink, varnished,

and drilled a hole 

for hanging it as an

Ornament on future Trees.

 

Hint.

On Christmas morning,

before anyone gets up,

Boil some small sprigs

of spruce needles, along

with cinnamon and ginger.

 

Carry the pot around the house

to spread the fragrance, make a

pot of coffee, and hot water for

Tea and hot Chocolate.

Use real sweeteners, NOT

Nutrasweet. It has bad metabolic

effects in hot Chocolate.

 

Put some good Christmas Music

on softly, make sure the stockings

are filled...

 

Spend 20 minutes with the kids

removing one item from the

named stockings at a time.

 

Sometimes the stocking gifts

make a bigger impression than

the wrapped presents...

 

Appropriate Music:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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