She asked me when the season of joy
was supposed to end & I said I didn't
really think there was an exact date, so
we left the tree up till June that year.
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She asked me when the season of joy
was supposed to end & I said I didn't
really think there was an exact date, so
we left the tree up till June that year.
A late Merry Christmas, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteamyj
Amyj, it's still Christmas until Little Christmas. :-) A Blessed and Merry Christmas to you.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that the Christmas tree should be taken down at Twelfthnight. If you miss that, you have to leave it up till Candlemas.
ReplyDeleteMurdock, Twelfth Night works for me. My tree goes up a few days before Christmas and stays until at least the day of Epiphany.
ReplyDeleteThen, the Mardi Gras season starts in my area. Some folks leave the tree and replace the Christmas decorations with Mardi Gras decorations.
In New Orleans, the Twelfth Night Revelers hold the first Carnival ball on the night of Jan. 6, and the party there continues until Mardi Gras day.
Before my wife and I separated, we'd take the kids to a tree farm the weekend before Christmas and cut a tree. We'd leave it up until Epiphany. Here in New York City, you can get real bargains in Christmas trees a day or so before Christmas -- but they're likely to be rather dry. (One New Years Day I brought a discarded tree in from the street and stuck it in our fireplace. Bad move. It didn't burn, it exploded. Fortunately, nothing else caught.) Happy Boxing Day. We've been playing church services from yesterday on the computer. With ten inches of snow on the fire escape, today seems like Christmas (which it is: second day thereof).
ReplyDeleteBefore recylers picked up the trees around here to help build up the marshes, Tom burned our trees once we took them down. One year the tree did not burn but, as you say, it exploded. I asked if he'd put lighter fluid or kerosene on the tree, and he said no. I thought, "What if that happened in the house by accident?" We never put up a tree that was once alive again. I would not, unless we'd cut our own tree a few days before Christmas. The commercial trees are cut far too early. And now I have my artificial, kinda, sorta, Charlie Brown tree, which is a tradition.
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