Mar 8, 2011

Did you have a Christmas Tree? Buy it? Cut it? What were the decorations like? Tell about your most memorable Christmas.

We had a Christmas tree every year and they were always fresh cut from the farm or bought from the scouts because I had gone on a fund raiser and cut them also. Most of the trees were cedar trees with the occasional white pine that we brought from the scout fund raisers. Those were cut from Grass Hollow in Indian Canyon south of Duchesne. We would then put them into a water stand and they lasted really well until we took them down after Christmas.
Our decorations consisted of breakable glass ball ornaments, pop corn strung on thread that were usually long enough to go around the tree several times from the top to the bottom. We also had silver tinsel that was always fun to put on but hard to take off. There would be occasional ornaments that we had made in school but they were far apart and few. There were also candles on the tree that we lit, oh wait a minute I am not that old, we had strings of lights with the big bulbs in them that we would string around the tree as well. Then there was a star that we would put on the very top. I always loved the smell of the fresh cut trees each year.
As far as my most memorable year I have already written about it in my 2010 edition. 1963.