> > > > We put the Christmas tree up today.
> > > > Howard
> > >
> > >
> > > We hung up our outside lights, but "can't turn them on until December 1st!"
> > >
> > > te "married to the Grinch" ach
> >
> > Hey, that's bad luck! You have to wait until at least 12 hours before Christmas these days (no, that was 'hours' not 'days')
>
> Confess. That was an old saying that you just made up on the spur of the moment, wasn't it?
>
> The only rule that I can remember was from a time when everybody used natural trees. We had to take them down before New Years Eve. Do you want to know why? I'm going to tell you anyway. It was because we used them to build the neighborhood bonfire that we torched at midnight on New Years Eve. It remains one of my most vivid childhood memories.
>
> Think about it. 40 or 50 dry cedar and pine trees piled up 25 feet high. It made a flame like the exhaust of a Saturn 5.
> Howard

We did that too! But we did it for the WHOLE TOWN on January 5th - Twelfth Night. Put the pile on the beach, had a town bonfire.

Picture 500 or so trees - it was something!

te "Second Princess" ach