It Is December It's Tree Time

[electron1100]

Against my personal preference my other half made it clear he wanted the fake tree this year and up at the beginning of December.

So Monday it was erected and the fitting of 5 sets of very old Osram candle lights began, one set has 10 the other 4 sets have 16 in each, took me until today (Wednesday) to get them up. (bit of fiddling and re-solder tipping of the bulbs)

So all I have to do now is find some space for some decorations

Gary

 

[optima]

Tree Time

My 8ft Tree this year

 

[xraytech]

Here is our blue spruce out in the field

 

[xraytech]

Inside one light up with about 5,000 lights

 

[petek]

I'm thinking maybe a real tree this year..the other half never really liked the aluminum one and I can't have my way all the time LOL

 

[Ultimatevacman]

Beautiful trees! I'll be getting mine up next weekend.

~ Joe

 

[NYCWriter]

Out of necessity ...

A tall skinny tree:

 

[NYCWriter]

Hey Craig ...

… is that a working fireplace?

I'm in the process of trying to procure an antique Edwardian-era cast iron fireplace from a guy in England to put between my two living room windows (you can see the space above). As you can see, I need something extremely narrow and tall.

You just can't find anything like that here in the states.

I'll be installing it not as a working fireplace per se; I'm planning on using one of those tabletop gel-burning "fireplaces" inside of it.

 

[ozzie908]

NYCWRITER

<h2><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have a question for you and it is are you able to get electric fires like in OPTIMA'S lounge " with 8 foot tree ?</span></h2>
 

<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Austin</span>

 

[ozzie908]

My fire is electric and has a fan heater if you need extra warmth.

 

[ozzie908]

A better picture

ok I know its false but when its lit up it adds a kind of warm glow even without using the heat on it !

 

In its defence of being false it does have REAL coal on it )

 

[NYCWriter]

Austin ...

... not sure I understand your question.

 

[electradeluxe]

This is my tree this year

Neil

 

[NYCWriter]

Why ...

... do I love blue so much on Christmas trees?

 

[ozzie908]

NYCWriter...My question is

are you able to get an electric fire like mine and Optima's? 

 

You said you wanted something slim to go between your windows and bot mine and Optima have slim fires for example they are not in surrounds and do not need chimneys etc do they sell them in USA?

 

[NYCWriter]

Oh yes!

yes they do.

I just like a real flame, in a real fireplace.

 

[maytagbear]

Can't resist....

NYC- so you're a real flamer, then?

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[turquoisedude]

Tree plus some automaticwasher folks

The flash kinda washed out the vitnage C7 tree lights (some with metal reflectors), but here's the tree in the Montreal apartment taken at a party we had last night. I am flanked by PhilR and pinkgurl.

Not shown - a real Frigridaire 'radiant wall' roasting/broiler pan that Phil got me!!

 

[turquoisedude]

And here's the very minimalist tree we put up in Ogden this year. We aren't going to be there for Christmas, but we'll be back for New Year's Eve so I had to do something!

The tree has a lot of history... I remember begging my father to take me to a discount retailer called Miracle Mart to get this tree which was on sale for $9.99 in December of 1973! It was the only tree used in our house in Pointe-Claire until 1986 - that was a rough Christmas (my mother died early in January of 1987) but she wanted a real tree, so that's what we got. My father stayed in the house until 2003 but he only had real trees until he moved.