On Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 4:59:33 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2018, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >On Friday, November 23, 2018 itsjoan wrote:
> >>John Kuthe wrote:
> >> > https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net...&oe=5CA8DF 74
> >> >
> >> > Leftovers are cool!!
> >>
> >> Turkey looks good, can't stand the whole cranberries and I don't know what
> >> that stuff in the upper right portion of the picture is.
> >
> >Can't stand the cooked cranberries, and that's dressing in the upper right.
> >It never saw the inside of a turkey.
> >
> >We had turkey for lunch yesterday. We did the last of the yard work
> >(gutters, put away the patio furniture, blow the water our of the
> >hoses with the compressor, haul away the last of the big pots on the
> >patio). Then we swapped the full-size sofa in the living room for
> >a love seat and hauled the sofa to the curb. Some guys came and got
> >it right before I was going to roll it into the garage for the night.
> >Hooray!
> >
> >We were both tuckered out, so we had pizza and salad delivered.
> >
> >Today I'll bring the Christmas tree up from the basement and set it up.
> >Sad that we have to use an artificial tree, but DH is allergic to pine
> >pollen.
>
> Then get a fir tree or a spruce tree... Canadian hemlock makes an
> attractiove Christmas tree too I doubt you will find any pine trees
> sold as Christmas trees... pine trees are grown for lumber. they get
> very large and as they grow they lose their lower branches so don't
> have that conical Christmas tree shape.
>
> And besides, the conifers used for Christmas trees produce pollen in
> late spring and early summer, by the time winter rolls around they've
> long stopped producing pollen and any clinging to the trees has been
> washed off by rain.

No. The last couple of years we bought a Fraser fir, he started wheezing
pretty much as soon as the tree came in the house.

> >If I'm really energetic I'll put the lights on it. If I'm
> >really, really energetic, I'll drag the old man out to the appliance
> >store to look at stoves.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton

He put the lights on it, and we've got a new stove on order:

This one:

<https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/PGS930SELSS>

Although of course we did not pay the "MSRP".

Cindy Hamilton