Laurie and I erected the Christmas tree today. This is not a holiday tree either!!
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.
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!!!