tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post8186364675978291553..comments2024-03-27T14:25:35.242-04:00Comments on Heroes, Heroines, and History: O Tannenbaum ~ History of the Christmas TreeDebbie Lynne Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16381517812227326616noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-54276733042352674582014-12-07T18:03:26.334-05:002014-12-07T18:03:26.334-05:00My Daddy and Uncle John cut a cedar tree from a pa...My Daddy and Uncle John cut a cedar tree from a pasture several miles from our house. The tree was full and beautifully shaped. They put it in the stand, put on the lights and garland and started to smell an unpleasant order. It seems the pasture was home to a herd of goats and the tree no longer smelled of cedar but of goat. They removed the lights and garland. The tree went outside and the next afternoon they found a new tree. My other favorite Christmas tree story - my brother and I went Christmas tree shopping in my VW Beatle. We bought a 6 and a half foot tree and transported it in my beatle. My brother was about 6' 2" at the time. It was maybe 15 miles from the tree lot to our house. Luckily the car had a Sun roof so the top of the tree was sticking out of the car and Joe was crunched up in the front seat. This story is extra funny because Daddy's pickup truck was parked in the driveway but I didn't like to drive anything larger than my old Beatle<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-85629213311815927222014-12-07T15:11:26.443-05:002014-12-07T15:11:26.443-05:00My favorite Christmas memories are of when we had ...My favorite Christmas memories are of when we had the real trees.. the smell was... And the year it tipped over! such good memories . Christmas Eve was always fun...Deanna Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01589351351698020082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-90549738833813889422014-12-06T17:25:30.611-05:002014-12-06T17:25:30.611-05:00Thanks, Martha. What a lovely Christmas tree memor...Thanks, Martha. What a lovely Christmas tree memory. I think many of our fondest Christmas tree memories are attached to treasured times in our lives. I have some of those treasured ornaments myself. I wouldn't take any amount of money for them. Love your tradition of decorating the tree as part of your son's birthday celebration. Really neat!Ramona Cecilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350201065802836869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-2542078989542588642014-12-06T15:04:15.234-05:002014-12-06T15:04:15.234-05:00Loved this post, Ramona. Christmas trees do have a...Loved this post, Ramona. Christmas trees do have a special place in our hearts and memories. The pictures are beautiful. Thank you for sharing. My most memorable Christmas tree is the small one we put up in our apartment the first year we married. We'd only been married for two months and had little money, so we had a small tree we set up on a table and draped a sheet around it make snow. Then I bought a box or two of shiny ornaments in various colors and shapes. We decorated together and I thought it was one of the prettiest trees I'd ever seen. I still have over a dozen of those first ornaments and they are the first to be hung at the top of the tree where they won't be in danger of being knocked off. Some of the color has faded from a few of them, but the memories they bring back are precious to me. <br /><br />Our middle son was born on December 10, so after his first year, we chose to buy and decorate our tree as part of his birthday celebration. We did that until he went off to college. Martha W. Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02415972499923372153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-44572533224120100742014-12-06T13:36:58.642-05:002014-12-06T13:36:58.642-05:00Thanks, Sharon. I'll pass on the info to the b...Thanks, Sharon. I'll pass on the info to the blog managers. I'm guessing that the second listing for an October winner was inadvertently left off the original October list, but I'll check into it.Ramona Cecilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350201065802836869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-70614474715505938582014-12-06T13:32:46.547-05:002014-12-06T13:32:46.547-05:00Thanks, Sharon. I'm glad you enjoyed the post....Thanks, Sharon. I'm glad you enjoyed the post. You had a neat and interesting childhood, too. I'll bet your Nigerian playmates were awed by your Christmas tree. What a fun memory!Ramona Cecilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350201065802836869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-58433215907621966672014-12-06T13:28:56.777-05:002014-12-06T13:28:56.777-05:00What a WONDERFUL Christmas tree story, Keli! I can...What a WONDERFUL Christmas tree story, Keli! I can only imagine the tons of fun you had as a child living on a ranger station! SOOO COOL! Your little crippled Christmas tree touched my heart. What a sweet childhood memory. :-) Ramona Cecilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350201065802836869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-77690682831079276442014-12-06T12:45:06.189-05:002014-12-06T12:45:06.189-05:00Any chance you could tell the blog that they have ...Any chance you could tell the blog that they have two OCTOBER winners. I'm sure the second one should say DECEMBER. Thanks! It's the little things that bother me!!!! ha!sharon mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10130208778591424260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-81514000560130130042014-12-06T12:41:51.105-05:002014-12-06T12:41:51.105-05:00I enjoyed reading about all the current Christmas...I enjoyed reading about all the current Christmas trees and looking at the pictures. I haven't put our artificial tree up as yet! oops! I remember cutting down Christmas trees with my parents when I was a child. We were missionary kids in Nigeria and still managed to have a wonderful Christmas. sm wileygreen1(at)yahoo(dot)comsharon mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10130208778591424260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-75272014076205225962014-12-06T11:44:08.163-05:002014-12-06T11:44:08.163-05:00The Christmas tree that stands out as one of the m...The Christmas tree that stands out as one of the most memorable is the one we had the year I was five. My dad worked for the Forest Service. We lived on a ranger station outside Los Angeles at the time. Dad came home one night with a rescued pine tree. Apparently it had been the victim of a car accident or something like that. The tree wasn't pretty. In fact, it was so unstable that Dad had to tie it to the walls to keep it from tipping over. I didn't mind. I was happy to see this tree that had met such an untimely end as the focal point of our celebration. I remember thinking as a child how happy that tree must have been to have it's skimpy branches decorated with those big primary-colored glass light bulbs, our Shiny Brite ornaments and my mom's carefully draped silver icicles. I would sit at the base of the tree and gaze up at it. In my young, impressionable eyes, it was a beautiful tree. It remains so in my memories to this day.Keli Gwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13236868298400593688noreply@blogger.com