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As it is December 1st at our house it was time to pull out the Christmas tree today - much to the delight of Miss Lara (aged 5 & 3/4's).  Since having young children in the house it has become tradition to put the tree up come the 1st :)   Here is this years tree



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Another tradition - Ian and Lara putting the star on last of all




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and our tree at night

We look forward to seeing more Christmas Tree pics from y'all :)

LIL

With a helper like that, how can the tree not look great?  Children have a way of making the pretty look beautiful.  Merry Christmas!  Roger

Those traditions are precious.

You can tell you all like the woods. That yellow and black National forest sign gave it  away.   :D  I have to get mine out. Yes,it is a fake one,but after walking through a Christmas Tree Farm for 2 hours,trying to find that tree that she liked the best of any an hour ago,after looking at about 20 trees and not finding it. Than to get the perfect tree home only to hear,"If I would of seen that spot I would not of brought it",we went to a fake one. And she likes it up by now too. One year was kinda dry here, and the tree stopped taking water after about a week. That was tree was some dry by Christmas.

That's a great picture Lil!

I wasn't going to bother with one but a friend of mine said YES you are. So we went out yesterday on her day off and got a fraiser fir from a local tree farm. Even got it up with out too much hassle!

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Patty would like that.

Norm
Good on your friend. A nice looking tree and decorated well.

Great Christmas trees guys. :) Tradition must be slipping this year in our house, the trees not going up untill next weekend.

Thanks for the picture Norm.  Lara was really excited to see it.  She thinks your tree is beautiful and that you have done a good job.  She can't wait to see more pictures of Christmas trees. 

LIL

Norm,

You did good!

Nice Christmas Trees

Thank you Norm. 

Very nice trees folks, and Miss Lara looks happy as can be!  We're planning a move within in the next few weeks so probably not a lot of decorations here but we'll at least have a tree if all goes as planned (hopefully). Hope everyone can enjoy a Merry Christmas.

"Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree"....
I think we'll end up installing ours sometime around the 12th or 13th, after a return to VA Beach from the mountains. I like all the trees shown so far. I'm especially glad that Norm put one up, too. :)

My tree isn't up yet, but the Grandchildren were excited to share the picture of their tree with Lara. 



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Quote from: Roxie on December 02, 2012, 09:02:58 PM
My tree isn't up yet, but the Grandchildren were excited to share the picture of their tree with Lara. 

Lara is standing here mesmerised saying "WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW".  Her favourite part is the angel on the top :)

Thank you for sharing with her and a huge HI from NZ to your grandchildren, she really is enjoying this thread. :)

Thought of you all when we set up the displays.
Safe Journeys to all.  Peace.


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We have a tree that stays up all year long and Tammy decorates it depending on the holiday.  :)

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Nice simple tree.....and beautifully decorated. Thumbs ups to Tammy.

But I gotta ask.......did you make the stand / stool with the checker board on it? Now that's country! Love it.

Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on December 03, 2012, 07:51:13 PM
Nice simple tree.....and beautifully decorated. Thumbs ups to Tammy.

But I gotta ask.......did you make the stand / stool with the checker board on it? Now that's country! Love it.

Sure did, and the checkers were made by forum members. They are in a wooden bowl behind the tree right now. The table was one we used at one of the Sawmill shoot outs. I brought it home and cut the legs off. We also have another one in the same room with forum members signatures on it.  Here is the topic
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,5746.0.html

Quote from: Jeff on December 03, 2012, 07:56:41 PM

Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on December 03, 2012, 07:51:13 PM
Nice simple tree.....and beautifully decorated. Thumbs ups to Tammy.

But I gotta ask.......did you make the stand / stool with the checker board on it? Now that's country! Love it.

Sure did, and the checkers were made by forum members. They are in a wooden bowl behind the tree right now. The table was one we used at one of the Sawmill shoot outs. I brought it home and cut the legs off. We also have another one in the same room with forum members signatures on it.  Here is the topic
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,5746.0.html

Thanks for putting me on the history of the checker board and stools. Pretty Cool!
I still wanna ramble through your barn.  :D

I'm 8 days late with the tree. That's what the wife told me. She really likes Christmas. I have to put the train around the bottom of it. Grandkids are getting older now. They can put the train back on the track when they make it fall off now.  ;D  The 19 year old Granddaughter asked me if I was going to set the train up. You all know what I said to that.

   

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We went with no lights again this year,except for the angle on the top.

   Lara , I think your tree is the best lookin' one yet  ;D
  We have not  put the tree up yet but that will come soon. My wifes brother and his family are flying in from Samoa next weekend and this place needs to be decorated, the outside was done today as the weather was mild. When the tree gets put up and decorated I will have a picture on here of it.

   

Jeff and Tammy your tree got an "ohhhhhh wowwwwwwwwwww"  The cfarm, Lara tells me yours is "more beautiful than ours"  So two seals of approval.  Thanks for sharing your trees - It's so neat for the whole family to enjoy the forum :)

LIL

8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
From Lara

We don't have our indoor tree up yet, so I took this picture of our outdoor tree just for Lara :).

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Even though we live in the middle of a forest, there are no smallish trees in front of the house -- I cut them down for fire protection. But there is a small Grand Fir across the parking lot that is finally big enough to support a string of lights. It's nicely visible from the kitchen window and of course any visitors get to see it.

I got the lights up and working the day before the family came over for supper. My almost-4-year old grandson was just as excited about the tree as Lara is about hers.

Thank you Brucer,

We get excited when this thread pops up.  Lara said "THANK YOU"  She's finding it hard to get her head around the tree being outside and not inside.   ;D

LIL

We will have at least 10 trees out side decorated with just lights. I have 7 up now,but no lights.These are all Charlie Brown trees. I just go out in the woods and cut then down and make a hole in the ground and put them in that way. Than we leave them up all winter for the birds. We have no trees on the front lawn. This helps the birds to get to the feeder,gives them a place to hide.

LIL, tell Lara our indoor tree will be going up this weekend.

The outdoor tree only has lights -- no other decorations. The lights are on a timer so it goes on just after dark and switches off at bedtime. If you look closely at the picture, you'll see the lights are shining off snow on the branches and beneath the tree. Snow in December -- I bet that's a novel idea.

When the snow gets thick, the lights make it glow.

   Here you go Lara, just for you.  :)


   Merry Christmas,  :-* :-*

That's beautiful Marcel!

A lot of work, but I finally got the tree up. I like the smell of pine.
Merry Christmas ;)
(imagine a pic of a little perfume pine tree for deoderizing an auto hanging over some christmas presents, suspended from a back scratcher).  The image wasn't mine.

But the tree is coming........... :)

Deb and I will be walking the same local tree farm that I've been going to since 1970 as a child. I carried on the family tradition with my family, and we'll be out there this Sunday. This is about the usual time we get a tree. Too early, and it's dried out, dropping needles, and looking a bit bare by Christmas. We've always picked a Douglas Fir, and plan on the same this year. I'll be sure to post a pic for Lara as soon as we have it decorated.

It's going to be a long two weeks without the use of that back-scratcher.  :D :D

 :D :D  got an itch a'ready.

Barto, PA has Doug Fir Christmas trees?  Who'da thunk.   :)

Quote from: beenthere on December 12, 2012, 09:28:54 PM
:D :D  got an itch a'ready.

Barto, PA has Doug Fir Christmas trees?  Who'da thunk.   :)

That's what the guy at the christmas tree farm tells me :)

Quote from: isawlogs on December 10, 2012, 10:45:05 PM
   Here you go Lara, just for you.  :)
   Merry Christmas,  :-* :-*

Thanks, we haven't been able to get back to this post for a couple of days as we have been busy with Christmas Parties and end of year wind ups etc.  Lara woke up this morning thou and asked if there were anymore trees.  Marcel Lara is super impressed with your tree and thinks that it is BEAUTIFUL. 

Thanks for posting :)

LIL

Hey Lara! 

Here is a Merry Christmas to you all the way from Central Georgia in the US!

This is a wild cut eastern red cedar.  The lights make it hard for the camera to focus  :).



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Wow!

I'm impressed Danny, that is beautiful.  :)

My wife likes lights.  She likes the tree to be a little open so that she can hang ornaments throughout the tree and you will be able to see them.  She has hundreds of ornaments.

Danny, have you ever thought about asking Santa for a better camera?  :D

 I like them a little open also so the ornements can hang from the limbs, but the misses likes them fat and has the ornements lay on the limbs...  We need to cut the lower limbs off a little higher then normaly would be as it gets so full of gifts I'll try to get a pic of that this year.
   Danny what scale is your train, I like that under a tree.  All of those trees are really WOW...  8) 8)

Looks like a g scale to me. :)

David,

I have camera operator issues  :).

I am not sure of the scale of that train. 

Here's our tree. Nothing fancy. Picked out and decorated by my 10 year old son. He likes things kinda gaudy like his mom!


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Here is a cardboard bulb that I've displayed for almost 25 years. I bought it at one of our family auctions way back when. It actually cost my cousin's son in law his job at Wal Mart back then. He was caught by his boss loading it into his car after retrieving it from a dumpster. Apparently "dumpster diving" is strictly prohibited if you are a Walley World associate! 
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QuoteApparently "dumpster diving" is strictly prohibited if you are a Walley World associate! 

A policy to cut down on the employees stealing things, by tossing them in the trash only to dive in and recover them later. An all too common method I've heard about in the past, so makes some sense.
But not good if someone lost their job if they didn't know the rules.

Hi Lara, Here is a better picture off our Little Christmas tree now that it has a bunch of packages around it. I also made a little video tour just for you so you could see some of the ornaments close up that Tammy put on the tree. Merry Christmas!


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http://youtu.be/O38ui4J5GOk

Your just like my son....quit digging around in the presents and be patient.  :)

I just caught heck from da blond.

 :-*

Thank you so much Jeff, that is so cool :)  Lara is in bed at the moment, she has her last day (will half day she finishes at lunchtime) of school tomorrow.  Ian has been left with instructions to show her the video  after school :)

PatD is feeling better, so ours finally got decorated today.   cut_tree


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This is with the flash.


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And without which shows the lights.   Merry Christmas,  Lara.   :)

I might have to stop showing Lara all these beautiful trees LOL ;) She is mighty impressed with the lights.

Martyinmi, 

Your tree got a "that's cool"  8)

A message for you all from Lara :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3iYtx6IqM

Thanks for posting that short video LIL. I've had a typical rotten Monday, but listening to Lara talk just made my day. 8)  Please tell her I said "thank you" also.

Thank you Lara, Merry Christmas to you.  :)

I have watched it several times.  Lara is truly a sweetheart.   smiley_heart 

 :-* :-* :-*  Merry Christmas to you as well sweetheart!   :-* :-* :-*

Quote from: Magicman on December 19, 2012, 08:41:19 AM
I have watched it several times.  Lara is truly a sweetheart.   smiley_heart

I had to watch again this morning just to start the day off right  :).  Merry Christmas Lara and to everyone else as well.  We get to move in the next few weeks but I promised I'd move the tree first and get it put up so I'll take a picture of it for you Lara and I hope Santa brings you what you wish for!

Had to try out some of Jeffs new critters.

:christmas:

and a

:new_year:


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Here is our tree. It is a twelve footer! My boys like lots of lights also.


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That room is perfect for a big tree!

The 8 ft Douglas Fir has been up for a week, and we finally got a chance for all 4 of us to do the decorating. It's great when my wife and I along with both kids get to decorate together. My son is 24, and my Daughter is 27, but we still have a great time every year, trimming the tree.

The 2 bears on either side tend to scare the cats at first, not to mention the dog, but they soo get used to them.



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A big thank you  to Lara for posting her video. I hope you have a Merry Chrismas little one, and that you get all the gifts you asked for.

She's a cutie for sure.

Quote from: Slab Slicer on December 22, 2012, 11:36:30 PM
The 8 ft Douglas Fir has been up for a week, and we finally got a chance for all 4 of us to do the decorating. It's great when my wife and I along with both kids get to decorate together. My son is 24, and my Daughter is 27, but we still have a great time every year, trimming the tree.

The 2 bears on either side tend to scare the cats at first, not to mention the dog, but they soo get used to them.

Slab Slicer, Lara is in bed for the night, we have just got back from having an early Christmas Dinner with Ian's family.  I will be sure to show her your photo in the morning, I know she will be impressed.

:christmas:

LIL

Merry Christmas everyone & a prosperous New Year !!!!
        :christmas:      :new_year: 


                               Dave

A safe and Merry Christmas wish for all and that you have a healthy and prosperous New Year.  From Memphis TN.  Chris Burchfield

I wish everybody a wonderful Christmas  ;D

Merry Christmas to all!

Quote from: 1270d on December 25, 2012, 11:54:49 AM
Merry Christmas to all!

I don;t know why, but when ever I hear it put like that, I can't resist saying,

"And to all a good night."   ;)

Merry Christmas everyone. :)

 The snowman tree is in the dinning room and the other is in the living room. My wife just loves Christmas and all the decorations and so do I, she does a great job. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, bg



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Quote from: Slab Slicer on December 22, 2012, 11:36:30 PM

The 2 bears on either side tend to scare the cats at first, not to mention the dog, but they soo get used to them.



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One of our dogs thought it was a new toy to kill. :D She worries them like a terrier. Our not quite 3 granddaughter was a hoot to watch last night. She hasn't quite figured out what s going on but sure likes the idea of presents.