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Thu 11 Dec, 2003 01:32 pm
What to your mind is the "proper" sort of ornament to occupy the top of your Christmas tree?
I favor a star, myself, but, Each to his own taste," said my grandmother as she kissed the cow.
When I was a lad, my mother had (still has) a ceramic Santa figure with a really nasty expression. We used to put him at the top with a cigarette butt in his mouth.
My ex favors a rather sappy angel. I got a kick out of putting the tree up her nether region.
But... now Mrs. SealPoet and I... my ex gave us a very nice crystal ornament. It was a wedding present from the first time around. It was given to first wife and I by... my old girl friend
...who is now Mrs. SealPoet.
Oh the tangled webs we weave.
anything but an angel. Iy reminds me of the punch line to a joke I cannot recall. The punch line is
"Oh yeh, howd you like to sit up here with a tree up your ass"
I prefer a star. No flashing lights please. Can't stand disco trees. A huge bow is another look I like. Those spikey glass tree toppers are much nicer grouped in a collection on the mantle.
Spike. Our tree looks like it belongs in the Kremlin.
But that's nothing compared to the huge cross in the front yard with my annoying neighbor nailed up on it.
I haven't found any tree toppers that I really like so, nothing.
Dang, cjhsa stole my cross joke...it's a spike this year. I don't mind the angel, just for the humour value. Sadly, our new property manager has banned crucifixions from the building this year, due to excessive wailing that was supposedly disturbing the other tenants.
I don't know what mine is. It's a handblown glass ornament that I call a star but isn't one of those 5- pointed 2-D things -- it's 3-D, like a clear glass sea urchin or something. It has a long "stem" that I lash alongside the topmost vertical branch, then put one light from my string of white lights in back of it, so it's all sparkly.
Love the SealPoet wedding gift story.
I'm sure the wailing would stop after a few days, wouldn't it?
Well, it does InfraBlue...but one complaint and they bark down our throats, you know....typical property owners...
I prefer Angels because of the splendor and pretiness of the get-ups they wear. I've always loved looking at the really expensive ones (the one's I'll never bother to pay for).
The angel that tops my tree now has a gold gown w/ kente cloth trimming.
My grandma used to use (fake) doves to top the tree. They'd be facing each other and holding a red ribbon between them -- as if they were decorating the tree themselves!
I preferred a star when I used to put up a tree.
We'd better not talk about all the angel toppers I got for Christmas the year I got my house. I still don't know what to do with them. I am NOT an angel collector.
i like stars, personally. it doesnt seem to favor a religion and it looks good with any type of tree :wink:
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