Karen, that's a picture of a tree from a few years ago. I've graduated to a 4 foot table tree now, much less work. Sandy, when I was a kid we put the tree up on Christmas eve. It was a whole family affair. We had a real one, and we kept it up until "3 Kings day" When the wise men were supposed to have arrived on Jan. 6. Since it was a real tree, that was long enough.

Way too much work to just put the tree up for a few days... I'm hoping to get mine up this weekend but might have to limit the ornaments that I put on it; our crazy 1 year old cat is no doubt going to look on the thing as a playground and I have a lot of fragile ornaments that I've collected over the years that I would hate to lose. The good news is, I also have a lot of more or less indestructible ornaments too...

Patch and Cheyenne catching a couple zzzz's in their recliner next to my little tree.

Awe, cutie pies needs their beauty rest.

I like the Santa ornaments.

Thanks Arlene, I had been collecting them for a while. It seems that the ones I find now are really cheep and junky looking, so I haven't added any in a few years. Guess now that I have gone to a small tree I don't need any more.

Yes Reta, now that they are nine years old they seem to want lots of that.

My DIL gave me some really pretty ones a few years back. We were in an old Victorian house and went all out decorating. Well, we were rehabbing the house so we went all out on the OUTSIDE! but I really like the Santa faces and ours are all different styles. I haven't looked at any recently but everything is getting made so cheaply!

Yes, with a small tree it seems you probably have enough.

tveguy3 said:
Yes Reta, now that they are nine years old they seem to want lots of that.

Ha, my little dog is just still so full of puppy energy at almost 16 months. Going to be a long time time she wants to do much snoozing.

Nothing like the energy of a puppy! Well maybe puppy kisses.

She is such a sweet little girl. But really full of energy.

My Raised beds are layered with chicken poo, newspapers and leaves to compost over winter...except for one section that has rutabagas. Had some at thanksgiving and will harvest the rest for Christmas when our daughters are home. And of course there are sun chokes and walking onions, we harvesst those as we need to use them. Everything else is resting and right after Christmas three comes down then it is time for getting seed starting shelf ready. Love gardening,it really makes me aware of the rhythms of the world around me.

I don't think I will get anything from my broccoli and cauliflower, but cabbage and brussels sprouts still look good. We are getting some lettuce though. DH is thrilled about that!

abhege said:I don't think I will get anything from my broccoli and cauliflower, but cabbage and brussels sprouts still look good. We are getting some lettuce though. DH is thrilled about that!

Always nice to get fresh from the garden this late in the year. Of couse here nothing is going on.

Lettuce and radishes are pretty much it here. I just feel too lazy to put much effort into winter gardening. I am hoping after the first of the year when i start seeds I can get in the mood! We set up some raised beds at our house so I can plant some things here, at home instead of at the farm. Maybe that will help.

You need a break from all the work you do at the farm anyway!

Oh, I wish I had a (small) farm. All my growing in in the landscape, raised garden, and greenhouses.

I think I'm going to NEED a small farm, with all the seeds I have coming from Ella's Piggy Seed Swap over on Cubits... (newbie piggy might have gotten a little bit carried away)

Sandy, I think that's traditional in the Piggy Swap.

We all get carried away ... sometimes carried away in a wheelbarrow, we collect so many seeds!

Just start lining up the pots all along the driveway! You should see how much Rita can plant in her residential lot!

abhege said:Just start lining up the pots all along the driveway! You should see how much Rita can plant in her residential lot!

I used pots because I had used up all my in ground veggie space. What I found out is that some veggies do much better in pots than others do. For instance summer squash did much better in ground than in pots but eggplants did much better in pots than in ground. Go figgure!