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On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:26:46 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>"Bruce" > wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:05:27 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
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>>>
>>>"Bruce" > wrote in message
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>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:28:14 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>>>>>news >>>>>>
>>>>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>>>>>> news >>>>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> news >>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've got a 22 ft. vaulted ceiling in the living room. Guess where
>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>> the cool air goes? Right up and onto the electric bill. Thank
>>>>>>>> goodness
>>>>>>>> there's good insulation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would only enjoy ceilings that high at Christmas, I've always
>>>>>>> wanted
>>>>>>> one of those huge trees inside.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Those are nice to look at but I wouldn't want one. I liked Christmas
>>>>>> trees
>>>>>> as a child. Now, not so much. I would just as soon do without them.
>>>>>> One
>>>>>> person here wants the tree up but nobody wants to decorate it and
>>>>>> worse
>>>>>> still, nobody wants to take it down. I would be fine with a little
>>>>>> predecorated something or other that I can put in a plastic bag and
>>>>>> take
>>>>>> out the next year.
>>>>>
>>>>>I hope I never get old enough to feel that way.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't had a Christmas tree since I moved out of my parents house.
>>>
>>>I had a small white flocked one that I decorated in pastel colors and
>>>flowers. Didn't take long to do. When that became decrepit, I had a little
>>>wall tree. I think I might still have that somewhere. I could actually
>>>leave
>>>that decorated. I just sealed it tightly in a bag. Got to where we had no
>>>place to put a tree much less store one. I did get a real tree once and
>>>regretted it. Husband did not like it and was constantly complaining about
>>>it being a fire hazard and the needles that it dropped. That was for
>>>Angela's first Christmas. I don't know why I bothered. She doesn't
>>>remember
>>>it.

>>
>> I remember something about sustainable Christmas trees. You dig it out
>> of the garden and put it back again after Christmas. Did that ever
>> take root?

>
>We haven't had that here but you can buy a live tree and replant it. Not
>sure how well that worked though because winter isn't ideal for tree
>planting.


Um, you buy the live tree well before winter.