When are you putting your Christmas tree up?
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Looks like the manager and maintenance staff put up some decorations around the ground floor, including a tree in the lobby and some other stuff on top of the mail boxes. It's nice, but comes at a time when we're all supposed to stay home as much as possible (today is the last day for a lot of businesses to be open).
Too bad. Around this time of year, at least under the current manager's watch, there would be a pizza party in the social room (they had these 2-3 times/year). The last one we had was in March, during the time between the Canadian media using the word "epidemic" and "pandemic". I still can't believe what an idiotic chance I took, going to that one. The social room was closed not long after, and between that and waiting to see if my housekeeping helper had brought anything back from her holiday (she and her wife went on a Caribbean cruise in February and didn't do a 14-day quarantine before going back to work), that was an unsettling time.
Too bad. Around this time of year, at least under the current manager's watch, there would be a pizza party in the social room (they had these 2-3 times/year). The last one we had was in March, during the time between the Canadian media using the word "epidemic" and "pandemic". I still can't believe what an idiotic chance I took, going to that one. The social room was closed not long after, and between that and waiting to see if my housekeeping helper had brought anything back from her holiday (she and her wife went on a Caribbean cruise in February and didn't do a 14-day quarantine before going back to work), that was an unsettling time.
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First things first! Get that tree and ornaments and lights up, for the love of god and everything that is sacred! 
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Instead of Santa hat smileys, we should have Jesus smileys! 
A set of those actually exists, if you can find them. They were created by balamm, a Canadian smiley artist from Langley, BC, who had a smiley-making forum I belonged to many years ago. He specialized in Invision-style smileys.Instead of Santa hat smileys, we should have Jesus smileys!
There used to be a life-size manger/nativity display in the park downtown here. The city workers would decorate all the trees with lights and put up the display. My mother and I walked through there one year during one of her twice-monthly visitations. It was rather nice after dark, with all the lights lit.
The display eventually fell apart from lack of proper maintenance and the city decided to stop using it. Now they just put lights up. If you want to see any nativities, there are several churches in the vicinity that have them.
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Jesusmiley bless him.
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It's a completely secular holiday in this house.
Our tree is up with lights and ornaments!
This is the first plastic tree we've owned that did not come with pre-installed lights. I find it to be a massive chore to correctly line up the plugs on pre-installed lights, whereas stringing a line of non-installed lights was easy peesy.
I don't bother with lights. They're too aggravating and too much of a fire hazard.
If you use shiny, light-reflecting ornaments, they work quite nicely. And there are ornaments available that glow in the dark (just let them soak up sunlight or other light during the day and they'll shine all night).
Tree will go up 22nd or 23rd. Otherwise it would already be too try and lose too many needles by christmas.
Then it's Yuletide, but not Christmas.
which means no fasting - pass the mustard, will ya?
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You oughta !!! (mumble, bumble) Christmas (bumble, mumble )
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You gotta water the tree mang
We are all decorated for Christmas:
Josu
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Last Friday, our two cats are allready enjoying.
Nativity scene also set up, as well figures figures of Olentzero and Mari Domingi, sorry, no english link for this character, basically she is a character that has been recently added (middle 90s) to the present distribution folkore, but was allready present in some traditional songs being a shepherdess who symbolizes femininity and the arrival of the winter
Nativity scene also set up, as well figures figures of Olentzero and Mari Domingi, sorry, no english link for this character, basically she is a character that has been recently added (middle 90s) to the present distribution folkore, but was allready present in some traditional songs being a shepherdess who symbolizes femininity and the arrival of the winter
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after a few weeks, water alone isn't going to keep it from losing needles. I wouldn't want to light candles on a tree that's been cut 4 weeks ago
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I was disappointed in the tree lights we bought - the blues are really muted and dull - so I bought some new LED ones from Magnavox. They're amazing and they really pop! I also bought some suction cups to hang them on our windows because the painter's tape I tried to use to hang them wouldn't hold.
When does everyone plan on taking down their decorations? In the past I was pretty militant about taking them down the day after Christmas but since we got a late start this year, we're leaving it up until New Years.
When does everyone plan on taking down their decorations? In the past I was pretty militant about taking them down the day after Christmas but since we got a late start this year, we're leaving it up until New Years.
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