On 12/20/2018 12:19 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
> writes:
>> On 12/20/2018 6:17 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 12:08:57 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:58:59 -0500, jmcquown >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Even if you don't celebrate Christmas (please don't lets get into a
>>>>> religous debate!) do you plan to cook anything special on or about
>>>>> December 25th?
>>>>
>>>> Why would you cook something special if you don't celebrate Christmas?
>>>
>>> 1. Even we atheists get the day off work, affording an opportunity to cook
>>> something more special than is usual for a Tuesday.
>>>
>> Yep, everyone gets the day off. Even grocery stores cut their hours
>> short on December 25th.
>>
>>> 2. Perhaps Jill means "celebrate as a religious holiday". We celebrate it
>>> as a cultural holiday, just as we do Thanksgiving.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> You get it! 
>>
>> Jill
>
> I have a dead douglas fir propped up in the living room with lights and
> stuff on it and I'm not even a pagan!
>
I don't have one of those. Mine is ceramic, tabletop. Lit from within.
Made by my oldest brother at the age of 12 as a gift to our mother. I
offered it to him when we were settling the estate and he declined to
take it. I set it on a two-tiered table by the front door. That's my
"tree".
I don't really think it's a good idea to chop down trees and drag them
inside the house. Then hang dangly things from the branches? Especially
not if you have a cat. At one time in history people actually put lit
*candles* on the branches of the dead tree inside the house. Oops. Not
very bright... well, it would get very bright when the tree caught on
fire. In the thatched roof cottage. Heh.
> we're going to have turkey dinner on the 24th, with stuffing and cranberry
> sauce, and oh yeah some vegetable thing of some sort
>
Good, if you like it. So far, I have successfully avoided turkey in the
year 2018.
Jill