you better get over to the Coffeehouse and defend your honor. I told them you had accused Diane of taking your pants and you're sitting around pantsless.
Here in the Sthn hemisphere with hot Christmases, people use spray-on snow & cottonwool etc, as decoration, to make it look as though it's winter. There are still cards sold with Santa driving his sleigh through snowdrifts & showing stockings hanging by a blazing fire, you get the idea. Weird how people get nostalgic for something they have probably never had, such as a white Christmas. They even celebrate "Christmas-in-July" to get the cold experience!!!
Our tree will be, our pride & joy, our new Wollemi pine, all 60cm (24") of it, living in its pot. Used to have pine Christmas trees in NZ, but got terrible hayfever from them. Not pleasant. Had a Japanese cedar as a living tree once, it was planted out afterwards & grew very well. The pine trees around here drop their cones, non-stop, all year round. Plenty available for decorations if you can beat the galahs to them, they love the seeds.
I live in Minnesota and we get plenty of cold and snow! I couldn't imagine not having snow for Christmas. It wouldn't feel like Christmas to me. I could do without it the rest of the time.
I like your tree Barb! Looks very nice! We always get a real one. I want to get one in a pot this year and try to leave it like that and see if I can plant it outside afterwards and have it in the yard. That would be nice instead of buying cut ones and then having to burn them after it is all done.
Hi Barb. Pinus radiata grow like weeds around our area, unfortunately, especially further inland. It means there are plenty for Christmas trees. They self-sow & pop up everywhere. Have enjoyed the snow when I've visited the ski resorts, but that's not like living in it, is it? We actually live by a surf beach.
A surfer????? Ho, ho, ho, hee, hee, hee. B.was one, many, many, many moons ago. A swimmer, yes, but a surfer..... Now yachting- that's more like it. Have had to make Christmas lunch for about 10 on a pleasure cruiser.
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