FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Christmas Ornaments ~ 18 DEC 2007

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The FReeper Canteen Presents

~Favorite Christmas Ornaments~

Welcome to the FReeper Canteen! It's great to have you with us!!
Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families for allowing us to entertain you!

Late in the Middle Ages, Germans and Scandinavians placed evergreen trees inside their homes or just outside their doors to show their hope in the forthcoming spring. Our modern Christmas tree evolved from early traditions.

In the early 1800's, Christmas trees in Germany were typically decorated with candles, cookies, fruit, paper novelties, and candy. Then, a glassblower in Lauscha (a district long recognized for the quality of its glass) crafted some small glass balls to hang on his family's tree.

Around the midpoint of the Nineteenth Century, in addition to candle lights, decorations hanging from Christmas trees included miniature replicas of fruit, animals, toys, musical instruments and angels made primarily out of materials available in homes.

Another concept began to take hold with the German families in whose homes the first “popular” trees resided. Food, often gingerbread or other hard cookies, would be baked in the shape of fruits, stars, hearts, angels and bells.

As the idea of decorated Christmas trees spread, various countries added their own variations. Americans, for instance, would string long strands of cranberries or popcorn to circle their trees. Small gifts began to be used to decorate the tree, sometimes contained in little intricately woven baskets, sometimes nestled in the crook of a bough, sometimes just hanging by a thread or piece of yarn.

 F.W. Woolworth brought the glass ornament tradition to the United States in 1890. From 1870's to 1930's, Germans made the finest molds for making ornaments with nearly 5,000 different molds at the time. At the turn of the century there were over one hundred small cottage glass blowing workshops in Europe.

The Christmas tree market was born in 1851 when Catskill farmer Mark Carr hauled two ox sleds of evergreens into New York City and sold them all. By 1900, one in five American families had a Christmas tree, and 20 years later, the custom was nearly universal.

Six species account for about 90 percent of the nation's Christmas tree trade. Scotch pine ranks first, comprising about 40 percent of the market, followed by Douglas fir which accounts for about 35 percent. The other big sellers are noble fir, white pine, balsam fir and white spruce.

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Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly, and please leave politics at the door. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.
We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.
We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

 

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks, you may notice that is not a fir tree, it’s my avocado tree! The plant is about 16 years old.

The traditional Finnish tree is Hemlock.

[SandRat]

Grilled Salmon still fills ours.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Oh yum!!!
Good evening Sandy!
*HUG*

[luvie]

Well, that’s not exactly chopped liver! LOL!

Sounds like a pretty good smell to me. What’d ya have to
go with it?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Little red taters, and green beans..
Biscuits..
I’m full!!
LOL

[TASMANIANRED]

Cowboy cookies

1 c. brown sugar
1 c. white sugar
1/2 cup of margarine
1/2 cup of peanut butter
2 eggs
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup of pecans
2 c. oatmeal
1 pkg. chocolate chips

Cream the brown sugar, white sugar and shortening. Add the rest of the ingredients, one at a time. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-12 minutes.

Add the oatmeal last and the dough gets stiff enough to work with your hands..Might not be able to get it all in.

I usually use a rounded tsp of batter , roll it into a ball and flatten...Makes them come out fairly uniform.

They don’t spread much so you can put them fairly close together.

I pull them out when they get dry on top..and let them cool until the chips firm back up.

[luvie]

Very cool pic!

We were stationed at the MAC/SAC base at Warner Robins, Ga...
and I loved watching those big ole planes taking off before
dawn.

[TASMANIANRED]

She is mighty food obsessed. Basement door locks.

[TASMANIANRED]

Pork roast smells good too. Didja do apples with it or kraut.

[SandRat]

Tomorrow’s Grilled Chicken Kabobs

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
Yippee!!
Thanks Sissy!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Alvocado works.

My Norfolk pine that started out a mini tree a number of years ago is now about 6 foot tall...

I’d love to put it outside but it would never make it.

[luvie]

Sounds mighty good. I have had those “little red taters”
that you had fixed. :D

You’re such a good cook!

[TASMANIANRED]

Delish.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

That sounds great!
Recipe?
;0)

[Lady Jag]

Wonderful thread. Thank you!

Here's one of my favorite ornaments.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Are you snowbound, ms feather? What a cute tree!

[Jet Jaguar]

Howdy Ma!

We did. Our unit sponsored an orphanage in Pyongtaek.

[TASMANIANRED]

Any time.

It’s my personal favorite.

[Texas Termite]

“I knew there where some pickle people here!”

LOL And ours looks just like yours! Guess it’s an old German/Alsatian custom. Lots of folks have no idea what it’s all about.

Blessings for this holy day season to you and yours.....

Nana