[Magdalen] Christmas Trees

[Susan Hagen]

I have a table top sized iron ornament tree that looks like bare tree
branches.  I always hang the Jesse Tree ornaments a friend painted for
me.  Some years I switch them on Christmas Day to my Peaceable Kingdom
ornaments.  These started as just cats and birds but now span most of
the food chain.  I don't think I'm going to bother this year.  I do
need to get the small lighted ceramic tree up from the basement.

Tonight I will put the baby in the creche.  The wise men are still in
a distant land (the dining room) with their small wooden casket that
has real frankincense and myrrh chunks in it.

Susan

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> I had one of those sweet Martha Stewart trees for years (artificial snow, a
> few berries, pre-lit); some years I put on ornaments, some years I didn't.
> For the last few years I've had one of those small, slim, urn-contained,
> pre-lit ones.  The lights on top died, but I replaced them with my own
> string, and just yesterday I brought it down from the attic.  No ornaments,
> unless I get hit with some kind of holiday fever that has eluded me so
> far.  Now I've got to go fill the bird feeder and give the birds a merry
> Christmas Eve.
>
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Sadly, the slim pre-lit Christmas tree that had served for about 25 years
>> ended up in the pre-move dumpster, ultimately the victim of too much
>> manhandling.  I got a Martha Stewart tree from Home Depot last year, no
>> sample on display, and it is exactly right for the space and ease of
>> storage.  Archie likes to nibble on the frosty sparkle .... hasn't made him
>> sick.  All the tree ornaments either went off with Kevin, the miraculous
>> handyman/friend, or into the dumpster.  Too late I realized that the few
>> really sentimental ornaments had been tossed, too.  Oh well, it's only
>> things ....  This tree is prelit and pretty and needs no further adornment,
>> I tell myself.
>>
>> What a state of poorly-suppressed hysteria I was in during that whole
>> business!  I am more grateful than words can express for my new life and
>> metaphysical state.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
>>
>>
>>
>>



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