Posted on 12/21/2024 2:54:39 PM PST by DallasBiff
2. While the contemporary world has converted to the theory of ‘less is more’, some people take the concept way too far. This terribly frail, one-branched tree seems like a killjoy for any Christmas gathering. The tree is so small that gifts the size of ring boxes will barely fit underneath the branch-less stem. Maybe that is the whole idea though?
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I love that one! 😂
Where’s Charlie Brown’s tree?
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Here you go...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t-LbkmuBmU
We put the charlie brown tree on our porch every year.
I did something like that. I was 20 and broke, so I went out, cut a few branches from a pine tree, tied them together, and decorated it with little candy canes, dangly earrings, and sprinkled it with baby powder for "snow."
It is actually a good idea, I was surprised at how nice it looked, it added so much texture and focus for the eyes.
Aside from our Christmas decoration stories, a beautiful naked tree branch, or a piece of driftwood, or professionally picture framed autumn leaves can fit wonderfully into the wall decor of a nice home.
After my husband and I separated earlier that year, I still hosted the family Christmas gathering (well my family, his were always invited all the 20 years we were married they never came to anything I invited them to), it was the Saturday between Christmas and New Year.
It was not a formal dinner but more of a potluck buffet and family gift exchange and a lot of fun. One year we had 4 generations of family in attendance - my parents and their newest infant great granddaughter.
This year, the last year I lived in this house, I decorated the house inside but just didn’t have it in me to go out and buy, haul home and decorate a Christmas tree or the hassles of taking it down after New Year all by myself or do the outside lights or put up the train display in the front hallway.
Somethings were understandable but I knew I’d get some ribbing, especially from my big brother about not having a Christmas tree.
But I had two big pine trees on the side of the house and a few branches were hanging low, blocking the sidewalk that led to the kitchen sliding glass door that needed to be trimmed.
Then I got inspired.
I took one of the longer and spinally branches I’d cut off, placed it in a bucket with paving rocks I had in the basement from one of my ex’s many unfinished home improvement projects to prop it up right, covered the bucket in some red felt and placed a single red glass Christmas ball on the very top and it sort fell over to the side a bit just like the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree and I put it in the corner of the dining room where I’d always had the tree.
Everyone loved it! And we all gathered around it sang Hark the Herald Angels Sing but with the “loo, loo, loo, loo, loo, loo”.
The next Christmas I was at a department store and saw they were selling a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree for like $40, but I still liked mine better.
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