Laurie and I erected the Christmas tree today. This is not a holiday tree either!!
The Christmas bear!
Over the last several years our tree has been only about four feet high or so. One year we decorated the tree in an old-fashioned way. We used popcorn strings; homemade gingerbread cookies; we made colored ribbon strips; turkey feathers; pine cones and even used an old robin nest! 
In the corner behind that tree I placed my smoothbore musket with hunting bag and powder horn. The entire feel was like the pre-Victorian era, something one might imagine in a country person’s home. We did cheat some by placing small lights around the tree.
Hope you Christmas is grand
Good for you…I’m putting the lights on a 13 foot frasier fir as we speak![3 feet shorter than last year]…a beautiful handmade angel was the first thing on the tree–how I miss my grandparents at Christmas time more than any other time…
Hark the Herald Angels Sing!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Slim
Merry Christmas to you too!!!! I miss my grandparentys and father very much also. Someday!!!