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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #60 on: December 03, 2008, 10:02:06 am »
We were watching tv the other night, these kids were under the tree Christmas morning, and a steam trainset circled the tree--classic Baldwin pulled with smoke and the big gauge 3-rail layout (forgot what it is called). I told Steve I could smell the track and smoke. Memories for sure.

Brad

Maybe he'll surprise you with a new train set for Christmas.   ;)  :)
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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #61 on: December 03, 2008, 10:05:24 am »
oh my gawd..that would be the coolest thing...a train track running thru the grounds...down by the pond back up thru the rose garden...


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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #62 on: December 03, 2008, 10:30:03 pm »
Haven't done one of these in a long time...so here goes

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?  Prefer wrapping paper.  All that paper scattered around after the big opening just makes it feel like Christmas.

2. Real tree or Artificial?  Have an artificial, and use it some years; other years put up a real tree.

3 When do you put your tree up?  Usually the second week of December

4 When do you take the tree down?  The first week of January

5. Do you like eggnog?   Not really

6. Favorite gift received as a child?   Hot wheels cars with plenty of track.

7 Hardest person to buy for?    Myself

8. Easiest person to buy for?  My dog

9. Do you have a nativity scene?     Yes, a handcrafted one I put outside with lights and music ....whole nine yards.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?   Mail

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?   A pipe wrench

12. Favorite Christmas Movie/Cartoon?   It's an episode from the Twlight Zone (original series) called "Night of the Meek"  

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?   Couple days before Christmas

14. Have you ever regifted a Christmas present?    No....I garage sale them the next spring

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?    I like lots of snacking type things...i.e. cheeseball with crackers, veggies with dip, etc.

16. Lights on the tree?   Yep, clear miniature bulbs....1500, some flash, some are solid

17. Favorite Christmas song?   Silent Night or O Holy Night
 
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?   Stay home, but usually have dinner with my family the weekend following Christmas.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?    I think so

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?   Have both, some years a star, other times an angel...but never both at the same time  ;D

21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning?   Christmas morning

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?  All the bad, holiday musak crap playing in all the businesses.  Wal-Mart started here before Halloween.....sheeesh.  

23. Favorite Ornament theme or color?   I have many little wooden, painted, ornaments I have handcrafted myself over the years.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?     Turkey or ham dinner with all the sides

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?    Peace on earth, good will towards men.





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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #63 on: December 03, 2008, 10:31:31 pm »
pipe wrench???


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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #64 on: December 03, 2008, 10:32:05 pm »
my son bought my husband a hammer one year...but he was four...

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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #65 on: December 04, 2008, 11:44:13 am »




1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?  paper and artfully wrapped

2. Real tree or Artificial?  both

3 When do you put your tree up?   Christmas Eve, sometimes. That's when Santa brought it. Or a week ahead.

4 When do you take the tree down?  Presidents Day

5. Do you like eggnog?   immensely

6. Favorite gift received as a child?   model train

7 Hardest person to buy for?    Oprah

8. Easiest person to buy for?  neighbor

9. Do you have a nativity scene?     yes. Rearrange the porcelain figures each year around the baby Jesus

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?   make calls instead

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?    opera tickets

12. Favorite Christmas Movie/Cartoon?     Remember the Night

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?    Dec 21 ish

14. Have you ever regifted a Christmas present?    absolutely not

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?    German potato salad

16. Lights on the tree?   old fashioned large ones

17. Favorite Christmas song?   Carpenters "merry christmas darling"
 
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?   both

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?    iffy

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?   neither. Symbolic steeple ornament

21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning?   both

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?     Walmart shoppers

23. Favorite Ornament theme or color?   wish they still made tinsel as in former times

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?    rare roast sirloin preceeded by oysters on the half shell

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?    knowledge that the Christmas message is not overlooked or purposefully reduced to secular commercialism.



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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #66 on: December 04, 2008, 11:49:33 am »
7 Hardest person to buy for?    Oprah

 :laugh:

So true. I never know what to get her!


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16. Lights on the tree?   old fashioned large ones

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?    rare roast sirloin preceeded by oysters on the half shell

I like both of those, too. So we do have a few things in common!  :)



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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #67 on: December 18, 2008, 05:37:27 am »
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?

It depends on the gift: some are naturally suited to a bag while others must be wrapped.

2. Real tree or Artificial?

Artificial; a real tree would be impracticle , since --like the rest of Central Denver--we keep it up a very long time

3 When do you put your tree up?

Our tree is lit whenever the tree in Rockefeller Center is lit; sometime during  thne first week of December.

4 When do you take the tree down?

In NYC on the Feast of the Epiphany; here in Denver after the National Western Stock Show...say the first week of February. Stock Sow is cool, they parade Cattle down Colfax Avenue; cowboys, cattle and sheep all over town lol

5. Do you like eggnog?

yes , but in moderation cause it's realllllly heavy

6. Favorite gift received as a child?

A geology kit; a microscope 

7 Hardest person to buy for?

My brother Richard, for whom everything must be PERFECT.   

8. Easiest person to buy for?

My wife and my mother.

9. Do you have a nativity scene?

Yes. Katrina has a small one. I have the old family one but it's still in NY.   My mother bought it at Macy's when she had her first job. It was a shambles and I restored all the statues; filled in the nicks, re-joined broken sections, restored and repainted it completely in the early 90's when we had this blizzard.   

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
 
REAL Christmas Cards

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?

It's a tie! YES,its a TIE I tell you, a tie between:

1-----a cassette tape entitled " Songs of the Third Reich:Volume 1-- 'OH, Tannenbaum!' A Compendium of Music for the Holidays In Adolf Hitler's Germany "   
2-----a briefcase, designed to make me fit into someone else's mold.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie/Cartoon?

A-----The 3 Christmas episodes from a series which ran a few years ago named 'Roswell'. It was a GREAT series about--as my wife and I put it, 'horny teenaged aliens'. Absolutely no BS: their Christmas episodes may well be among the finest ever filmed for television. My wife and I went crazy over them.  

B-----Miracle On 34th Street; the original...while the remake was  nice,  it wasn't GREAT.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?

I do it throughout the year. It works better that way.

14. Have you ever regifted a Christmas present?

Of course I have! roflmao Anyone who says they HAVE NOT is full of @#$%^&*   

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?

many, but a fruit stollen comes to mind....

16. Lights on the tree?

A tree should have as many lights as possible.  We have an artificial tree, and I made sure it had abundant lights cause I hate twisting lights around branches.

17. Favorite Christmas song?

Hark the Herald Angels Sing; John Lennon's "No More War"; "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" by THE eURYTHMICS ; Handel's "Messiah"
 
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?

 I have ALWAYS had Christmas at home and since getting married Katrina has umm, JOYOUSLY flown offto NY because she wants to have Christmas with MY family....which says it all.  This year we are actually staying here in Denver and having her mother and brother come to OUR house...  It's a wierd feeling...   

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?

not a one   

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?

both work . it depends on the tree itself. The one thing I can't fathom is a 'steeple'. They look ridiculous.

21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning?

Christmas Eve 

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?

It's too short   

23. Favorite Ornament theme or color?

Red and Gold 

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?

no preference.     

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?

Normality    [HAHAHA!!!}
In lieu of that, opera tickets would be nice so long as it was a good company--it's been a while; so would tickets to a visiting philharmonic


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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #68 on: December 19, 2008, 08:35:26 am »
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,30976.msg453227.html#msg453227

a thread for people addicted to Christmas Ornaments
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Re: A Holiday Survey!
« Reply #69 on: December 20, 2008, 12:40:27 pm »
Perhaps I should reconsider my answer as to who is easiest to buy for. My friend John, one of my SCA-medieval reenactment buddies, is the easiest person to buy for after myself. All you have to do is find him something with a dragon on it, and he's happy as a clam.  :)
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