Comments on: New for 2008: M and C Build a Tree http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/ We're not slow. We're deliberate. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:07:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sandy http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-384 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:42:25 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-384 Hi, M, C & Annabel!

Your tree is lovely. The pictures were wonderful. Congratulations on your new site. It’s very nice.

Wishing you tons of wonderful things in 2009.

Give that darling little girl a small kiss from me!

]]> By: zilla http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-383 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:02:53 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-383 A sparse tree drapes well, I think. My grandmother always had a sparse spruce — blue, or black — to ensure that her lovely combination of home-crafted ornaments and the antiques she collected would have plenty of room to hang without scraping against the branches. If I could ever find a tree as beautifully airy as the one you have here, I would be thrilled. In northern Michigan, it seems, all of the tree farmers prune to ensure the type of fullness most people prefer. Like Pablo, I have cedar. There are also some white pine, and some gnarly hemlocks, but I don’t cut them as they provide a much desired screen from too-close neighbors on a small city lot.

Lovely blog, Cherie and Ed. A real breath of fresh air.

]]> By: Ed Abbey http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-2 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:11:23 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-2 Pablo, you must have been referring to Cherie as I haven’t published any photos of me in a long while. I actually was one off, this will be my 36th Christmas.

]]> By: Pablo http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-3 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:41:18 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-3 BTW, I really doubt that you’ve seen 35 Christmases. I’ve seen photos of you, and it ain’t likely.

]]> By: Cherie http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-4 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:10:43 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-4 As we have no cedars at all, I cannot weigh in on that debate. This is a spruce, which is mostly what covers our property. We also have a few white pines, but they are too straggly for Christmas trees, even with drill-related intervention.

]]> By: Pablo http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-5 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:30:58 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-5 That’s no cedar tree.

]]> By: Ed Abbey http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-6 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:57:56 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-6 You need to give cedars a chance Pablo. This is the 35th cedar tree I’ve had as a Christmas tree and I’ve loved them all. But the best part is that I’ve spent nary a cent for any of them.

]]> By: Pablo http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-7 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:21:25 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-7 Very resourceful. My forest is full of cedar trees, which wouldn’t make a very nice Xmas tree. When I saw you drilling holes in that tiny trunk I thought for sure that it would weaken the tree, and your post would have a different ending.

]]> By: Kathy from NJ http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-8 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:29:14 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-8 Dear Cherie,

My father & our next-door neighbor (and probably everyone else in the middle-class world) did the same thing in the 50′s & early 60′s! Except they bought trees (bought extra tall so there would be plenty of left-over branches) and did not use power drills, they used hand drills that you cranked with your own human-power. And every tree was absolutely perfect with (big) lights and mostly home-made decorations. Thank you for the memories. Kathy

]]> By: Ed Abbey http://mandcbuildahouse.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-9 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:03:43 +0000 http://mandcbuildahouse.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/new-for-2008-m-and-c-build-a-tree/#comment-9 I’ve got to remember that trick of filling in the tree with extra branches. Hillarious!

After you were done, the tree was almost fuller than Michael’s muttonchops!

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