In a message dated 12/4/2002 2:04:33 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > How..does everyone decorate for Christmas ? > We have the nice big C9 colored lights along the roofline and in the ponderosa pine next to the front porch, and I string one of the "old-fashioned" (in style seven or eight years ago) chaser mini-light strings on the front railing. We also put a netting of mini-lights on the front bushes. The Christmas tree goes in the big front window, and there are also candle lights in the front bedroom windows over the garage door. Everything's in living color -- none of those all-white icicle lights that have been the "in" thing for the past five or six years. On our Christmas tree I go old-fashioned, too -- C7 bulbs and bubble lights as well as a few strings of minis, tinsel instead of garlands, and hand-painted glass ornaments that reflect light instead of nonreflective wood and plastic. About the only difference between our tree now and the ones we had when I was growing up is that now we cut our own Scotch pine at a nearby tree farm, and back in Nutley we bought balsam firs from the usual tree lots around town or at the church. An important part of our Christmas decorations is the collection of ceramic figures that my dad made back in the 1960s. We have carolers, a sleigh that holds Christmas balls, candle holders, and a manger scene that gets top billing. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr