Christmas tree thread. Lets see them!

[bbhaag]

Annual ATOT Christmas tree thread. Post them up if you don't mind sharing.

With both boys getting older it's getting harder and harder to find time do this but we made time tonight and got our tree decorated.

 

[lxskllr]

My office tree...



Same as every year; an eastern red cedar dug up from the farm, and some usb lights.

 

[bbhaag]

I love it! Do you replant it after Christmas?

 

[lxskllr]

I do, with mixed success. One year I cut off too many roots on the initial extraction, and last year's got hit by the landscaper's weedwhip.

This is the best one. Pic was taken August last year. I didn't capture the sparkling dew you could see in person. I think this was from five christmases ago. It started about the same size as the tree in this thread...

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Eule loggin' it this year since a winter trip won't let a tree be a thing.

Shrooms by my beautiful and talented daughter.

 

[MrSquished]

Eule loggin' it this year since a winter trip won't let a tree be a thing.

Shrooms by my beautiful and talented daughter.

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That's gorgeous.

I don't really put up a tree anymore when single. But I just put these lights up every holiday season. The cat, as always, was immediately intrigued. So far they have stayed up.

 

[BoomerD]

Our tree is still in its box in the garage. Wife had a mini-stroke about 10 days ago. Spent a week in the hospital, she's now in a skilled nursing facility where she's SUPPOSED to be getting some physical therapy...hasn't happened yet. IF she's going to come home for Christmas, I'll bust a move and get the tree up and decorated...and some of the misc. decorations she puts up in the house...if not...fuck it.

 

[lxskllr]

Holy shit Boomer! Sorry to hear about the wife. Hope she comes through it all ok.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow hope she ends up ok and can make a full recovery.

 

[Shmee]

Best of wishes to you and your wife, hope she recovers soon. In the meantime, you might want to bring the tree to her!

I will have to post some pics soon.

 

[BoomerD]

Best of wishes to you and your wife, hope she recovers soon. In the meantime, you might want to bring the tree to her!

I will have to post some pics soon.

heh...I thought about that...sort of. 5 years ago, when we were waiting for the purchase of our house to close, we spent 3 weeks living in our motorhome. I picked up a small artificial tree (18" high?) that we put a couple of tiny ornaments and a string of fairy lights on...and stuck it on the dashboard of the MH. (I also used some small command hooks on the windshield to hang christmas lights.) We got into our new house just days before Christmas, so I got out one of our artificial trees, plugged it in...no ornaments...those were our trees that year. If she's not going to be home for Christmas, I'll take that tiny tree and ornaments to her room.

 

[allisolm]

Going to see son, DIL and granddaughters for Christmas so not putting up decorations this year. House next door looks like the Griswold's so I want to buy this

 

[BoomerD]

Going to see son, DIL and granddaughters for Christmas so not putting up decorations this year. House next door looks like the Griswold's so I want to buy this

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Our first full year in this house, I had lights, lights, lights...and some decorations outside. Two of my neighbors put up ghetto versions of that...

 

[herm0016]

Happy Holidays you filthy animals.

ornaments are above nose level of the dogs. one dog keeps trying to steal the skirt.

 

[Babbles]

For my home office, I do what I call a "classy" Star Wars tree. It is thematically mostly chrome/silver color along with other non-Star Wars ornaments. The tree topper is a sweet Death Star that does all sorts of lights and sounds.


The tree that I have at my office desk is reflective of the days that I need to go into the office.

 

[BoomerD]

The tree that I have at my office desk is reflective of the days that I need to go into the office.
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I have a couple of small, spindly blue spruce trees that the deer keep mauling as they knock the velvet off their antlers...they don't look much better than that tree. One of them gets the same "single red ball ornament" every year.

 

[highland145]

For reasons beyond my understanding......the boss has said no tree....here's my chocolate soldier.

@BoomerD my less than medical knowledge, I've heard that early PT is critical after a stroke. Best of...

 

[highland145]

@Babbles +1 the cat door in the gate.

 

[Babbles]

@Babbles +1 the cat door in the gate.

Ha, so it is actually for the dog as my home office has the cat food and the 80+ pound puppy dog loooooves to eat cat food.

We did have a baby gate when the kiddo was, you know, a baby. However, when we got the 4 legged baby, we needed to change it up for the cats was they are getting older.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Our tree is still in its box in the garage. Wife had a mini-stroke about 10 days ago. Spent a week in the hospital, she's now in a skilled nursing facility where she's SUPPOSED to be getting some physical therapy...hasn't happened yet. IF she's going to come home for Christmas, I'll bust a move and get the tree up and decorated...and some of the misc. decorations she puts up in the house...if not...fuck it.

Ah yes, the Christmas stroke. My mom had her first one last year 2 days after Christmas and her second one a week ago. (she is still with us). I was talking to the manager at her complex and she said that her dad had a stroke last year 5 days before Christmas. Maybe Christmas is getting too exciting and we need to calm things down.

Since your wife is married to you she must be strong willed and will crush the physical therapy. Glad to see you say she had a mini stroke and hope that means she still has movement in both sides.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I do, with mixed success. One year I cut off too many roots on the initial extraction, and last year's got hit by the landscaper's weedwhip.

This is the best one. Pic was taken August last year. I didn't capture the sparkling dew you could see in person. I think this was from five christmases ago. It started about the same size as the tree in this thread...

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I love where you live. I would like to start walking in those trees and come back in a couple of hours. Hard to find something like that in SoCal.

 

[Stopsignhank]

This is our first year for an artificial tree. It is impossible to find a good live tree around here. Plus this is so much easier'


If you look at our tree topper it is a star. For the past 20 years our son with autism has made the star for the tree. Last week the art studio where he goes a couple days a week had an art sale. He painted this apron and I had to buy it. Notice the star on top of the tree.

 

[iRONic]

No tree topper yet as the wife has given them away(along with a shit load of ornaments from my mother) to the two oldest kids that live within spitting distance now.

Sending you and the Mrs. good thoughts, boomer.

 

[nakedfrog]

It's not much to look at, and I'm not much for decorating it (especially since the cats are inclined to liberate ornaments anyway), just a cheap pre-lit tree I got a few years back. And yes, the wall painting project is on hiatus for the moment. And the tree is on a table because there wasn't any other good spot to put it without involving effort that I didn't feel like putting in.

 

[lxskllr]

What's up with that wall painting? I'd like to see more of that.