[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, SandRat, and a Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours.

It has been many moons since I have had a Blue Spruce. They are not usually found in this area anymore. The scent is great and the shape is classic.

We usually go for a fir - a Fraser, Douglas or Noble Fir. We will see what we can find tomorrow - we go to the same nursery every year - a little more expensive than the competition, but they have beautiful trees. I'll post a photo after we have ours up and decorated.

[ConorMacNessa]

Wachet Auf Ruft Uns Die Stimme
20 December 2015

Cantata 140, BWV 140 No. 1
"Wachet Auf Ruft Uns Die Stimme"
Johann Sebastian Bach
Choir Of King's College Cambridge
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This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."