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Oh, my! I can see they'd do that in CA, but I think I'd be happier to go artificial in that case.

My husband taught at a school like that in Virginia. The first day of hunting season was an unofficial holiday. The school was still in session, but nobody marked the hunters absent.

I got some larger LEDs for the yard a year or so back. They look like the old ones you're talking about, but they're not.

Last year I bought something called "scentsicles" for our artificial tree. They do emit fragrance. In fact, you have to be careful.not to overdo it.

I've had trouble a few times lately, too. I'll be typing and posting just fine, then suddenly it will tell me that I'm "forbidden."

Congratulations on your super land deal! I don't think I would talk about it with anyone. They say it's a mistake for lottery winners to publicize their good fortune. There are always so many people out there who need money and can tell distressing stories. I know some of them are con artists, but ...

Re your real tree: you are going to LOVE the way it smells. That's what I miss most about a real tree. When I had my one preferred fake tree, I used to use an evergreen scented Glade plug-in behind it to create the illusion that the tree had a scent.

Our Kroger is selling table top trees, real ...

Oh, that's a great one! Season 6? I think. Frasier always had such superb holiday episodes. Their Valentine's and Halloween episodes were also brilliant.

I'm a fan of the new All Creatures Great and Small. It's very cozy, so it might or might not be to your taste. But it's well done, and each ...

I'll have to give this some thought. But one thing I do remember from the 60s and 70s is the many Christmas specials we used to see back then. Bing Crosby, Perry Como, and Andy Williams used to have them every year. So did Lawrence Welk. The Carpenters did two or three in the 70s. These were all ...

My mother told me that her family used to go to the woods to get a tree. They also decorated it with candles when she was a child. She said that when you have a candlelit tree, it gets lit only once. But she said there was nothing quite so magical as a tree lit with candles.

I've felt that way about some of my posts, too. But I've also had a hobby for maybe 20 years of writing down everything I can remember of the family stories my mother and others told me. I think the names on a family tree mean a lot more when people know something about the ones who bore those names ...

Oh, I was adamant for many years that I would have only a real tree. However, I've had a fake one now for decades.

When we were newlyweds living in Killeen, TX, the real trees went on sale before Thanksgiving, but my husband refused to buy one. He has a thing about not celebrating Christmas before ...

Andy, I'm so sorry to learn that you, too, apparently suffered a traumatic childhood. I guess the worst thing that happened during my childhood was my father's death. It meant not only that I didn't get to know him in the way I would have wished, but also that my mother and I sank financially and ...

When my first child was a toddler, if I tried to spank him, he would hit me back. And I thought, Do I really want to raise a child who won't hit back when someone strikes him? And I decided I didn't want that. So I stopped trying to spank him. I decided I would do that only if I saw him doing ...

HH, I feel like apologizing to you if I said something that triggered all those terrible memories. But you say that in some way you feel unburdened by talking about it, so I hope it really did help. I cannot imagine living through that level of abuse, either as a child or a wife. My heart goes out ...