Post by Clipper on Nov 24, 2019 14:21:15 GMT -5
Shopped all around to finally find the tree we wanted at Home Depot. We gave our older tree to a friend whose wife recently ran off with another man leaving him with a single bed, a futon, and a little table with two chairs. She ran on her first husband and has run on my friend for the last two years before being caught. She waited until he went to work and emptied the house and left a note saying she was leaving.
We gave him some pots and pans, and a dresser, along with the Christmas tree. He has a 5 yr old daughter that stays with him half the time. She was thrilled to put it up and decorate it yesterday. NO kid should be without a Christmas tree. The poor guy is about strapped trying to keep up with the rent, buy furniture, pay off bills that she created, and start anew.
Kathy has adopted him. She has me taking him home made soups, pies, cheesecake, spaghetti, and anything else that she thinks ahead and makes a surplus amount of and I deliver it to him at work. He manages our local Walgreen's. We always did the same thing with my friend John that died last March. You can't make a pot of soup for just two people. It simply doesn't make sense, nor does making a half a batch of sauce and a half pound of pasta. She enjoys cooking and baking and thrives on the satisfaction of giving it to people and the praise that comes back.
Today is the day. New tree is up and she is fluffing the branches. I love the lack of power cords between sections. This tree has the power running up the center of the trunk with an electrical contact on the end of it. When you drop an upper section into the tube of the part below, the lights come on with no fuss and no muss. This one also have a wireless remote to change the lights to 5 or 6 different settings. With the old tree we had to reach down under the tree to get to the switch to turn it on and off and there was no options to change from color to white or flashing to steady.
Count us among those that everyone grumbles about. I had to go out and hang the wreathes on the doors and the lighted wreath on the lattice on the back porch. I will also have to wrap a lighted evergreen garland around the post light.
We don't usually put up the tree and decorate until Thanksgiving, but we got anxious to see the new tree up so we did our thing early this year.
We gave him some pots and pans, and a dresser, along with the Christmas tree. He has a 5 yr old daughter that stays with him half the time. She was thrilled to put it up and decorate it yesterday. NO kid should be without a Christmas tree. The poor guy is about strapped trying to keep up with the rent, buy furniture, pay off bills that she created, and start anew.
Kathy has adopted him. She has me taking him home made soups, pies, cheesecake, spaghetti, and anything else that she thinks ahead and makes a surplus amount of and I deliver it to him at work. He manages our local Walgreen's. We always did the same thing with my friend John that died last March. You can't make a pot of soup for just two people. It simply doesn't make sense, nor does making a half a batch of sauce and a half pound of pasta. She enjoys cooking and baking and thrives on the satisfaction of giving it to people and the praise that comes back.
Today is the day. New tree is up and she is fluffing the branches. I love the lack of power cords between sections. This tree has the power running up the center of the trunk with an electrical contact on the end of it. When you drop an upper section into the tube of the part below, the lights come on with no fuss and no muss. This one also have a wireless remote to change the lights to 5 or 6 different settings. With the old tree we had to reach down under the tree to get to the switch to turn it on and off and there was no options to change from color to white or flashing to steady.
Count us among those that everyone grumbles about. I had to go out and hang the wreathes on the doors and the lighted wreath on the lattice on the back porch. I will also have to wrap a lighted evergreen garland around the post light.
We don't usually put up the tree and decorate until Thanksgiving, but we got anxious to see the new tree up so we did our thing early this year.
