On 12/26/2017 12:59 PM, Gary wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> Now the children are all grown up and gone we have an electric one with
>> lights attached)
>>
>> No mess and it suits us)
>
> After my daughter grew up, I quit putting up a real tree. Loved
> putting them up the day after Thanksgiving (traditional here) but
> a pain in the butt taking them down afterwards. I don't bother
> anymore. I did almost put one up one year just for ferrets to
> enjoy. The young one would have loved climbing in it. The older
> one would have been happy just sleeping underneath. Ferrets are
> easily satisfied with new things.
>
> I also have the little ceramic tree like Jill showed but mine is
> colored green. My father in law made that in a crafts-class many
> years ago. I didn't even get that out this year...bah humbug!
>

They were very popular years ago. When my wife had her ceramics
business we had a mold and starting in October I poured one a day and
later fired one a day in the kiln. Green was the most popular by about 3:1