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This fraser fir smell so good, I think I will get my sleeping back out and sleep by the tree. Reminds me of the Grayson Highlands. :)
johnnybgood
12-12-2010, 20:48
This fraser fir smell so good, I think I will get my sleeping back out and sleep by the tree. Reminds me of the Grayson Highlands. :)
Just add smelly hiker funk...and ponies. ;)
Kel, the "Stickman"
12-12-2010, 21:57
We went out and cut our trees (for family) today... nice smelling balsam fir! Unfortunately, I didn't get mine into the house yet, and will wait a day or so, as we are having HEAVY rains today and tomorrow. I just can't get in the mood, with no snow...
Speaking of smell, reminds me of the time I brought back the most beautiful tree for my (now ex-mother-in-law), which she brought inside and decorated. A few hours later, the tree was majestic... and had also warmed to room temperature... It was a "cat spruce", or "skunk spruce", and now reeked with disgusting smell!
Well, of COURSE it was a mistake!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Kel, the "Stickman"
12-12-2010, 22:00
Hey, JEBjr, how's it going down Raleigh way? We used to live in Garner, work in Cary... sure miss that area some days!
Hey Kel, or should I say neighbor! Lovely rain eh?!
Blue Jay
12-13-2010, 12:52
Even as a kid I never could understand cutting a living tree down, placing it in water so it dies very slowly, putting all manner of gaudy crap on it and then placing it in a window so all it's friends can watch it slowly die. On Christmas Eve you can drive around and see entire lots full of dying trees. A very very strange custom to honor the birth of a holy man. Humans are a source of constant amazement to me.
Old Hiker
12-13-2010, 13:42
Even as a kid I never could understand cutting a living tree down, placing it in water so it dies very slowly, putting all manner of gaudy crap on it and then placing it in a window so all it's friends can watch it slowly die. On Christmas Eve you can drive around and see entire lots full of dying trees. A very very strange custom to honor the birth of a holy man. Humans are a source of constant amazement to me.
I'm fairly sure (had a pagan friend overseas who loved to point these things out to me) that a decorated tree for the winter solstice predates Christianity by several centuries or so. :rolleyes:
The End of Druid Beliefs (http://christmastree.lifetips.com/tip/106749/history-of-the-christmas-tree/christmas-tree-history/the-end-of-druid-beliefs.html)
What is the real history of Christmas tree emergence? And, why a fir tree? The Christmas tree origin is often traced back to a precise event in the beginning of the 8th century A.D. in northern Germany. An early Christian missionary, now referred to as St. Boniface, chopped down an enormous oak tree that was a major place of worship for the then Druid people.
By destroying the Boniface hoped to destroy the old religious beliefs, symbolically. The legend goes on to say that after the tree was gone a fir sapling was left (or later emerged, depending on the version of the legend). Boniface believed that this new tree was symbolic of a new beginning and offered it as a symbol of new Christian beliefs. Fir trees then came to be associated with Christian rituals in this part of the world. http://christmastree.lifetips.com/cat/62361/history-of-the-christmas-tree/index.html
Reminds me of the old "had to destroy the village to save it".
Just add smelly hiker funk...and ponies. ;)
That literally made me lol.