My Christmas tree is up. No lights or decorations yet but I have fluffed all the branches and stuck them on the trunk in the appropriate slots. Tomorrow I will string the lights and hang the ornaments, lots and lots of ornaments. I make no apologies for having an artificial tree. I have had this one for 38 years and it's like an old friend, Besides, artificial trees are a family tradition. I'm not sure what happened in his childhood, but my father was always afraid that a natural tree would catch fire. Of course when he was a child and people used candles on their trees, that was a very real possibility. I have no memory of chopping down a tree or looking at trees in a tree lot, but I clearly remember our first artificial tree. Its very symmetrical branches were covered in silver foil "needles" and it was lit by a spot light behind a revolving color wheel. I'm sure we were the first family in our small town to have a silver tree and Daddy loved it. No lights strung on the tree meant no hot spots, so no fire hazard. Happily, I married a man who was allergic to the smell of pine, so he was very happy to carry on the artificial tradition, although we did go with green. Now both of my children have artificial trees in their homes. Isn't it great when traditions live on?
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