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Subject: Re: merry christmas!
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:48:27 -0600
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:46:15 GMT, Maija Haavisto <maija@dontspambut.writeme.com> wrote:

>Sat, 13 Dec 2003 04:15:52 +0100, "Bj�rn Halvor Bergtun" <ask-me@online.nospam.invalid> kirjoitti:
>> Katherine Merle Mason wrote:
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>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> > Sheesh.  Don't you know a person carrying a christmas tree when you
>> > see one?
>> 
>> Way to early though... That christmas tree will be brown before
>> Christmas :P
>
>Why would it be? When I still lived with my parents, we often kept the
>Christmas tree until the end of January or even February. One year we
>still had it on Easter. The trees never dried or turned brown, actually
>once the tree started growing and we told people we had a flowering
>Christmas tree.

:) A little corn syrup in warm water helps out quite a bit then let it 
cool. once cooled down feed the tree. This one got planted an lived, 
till it was snapped from an overlaod of ice due to a storm a few years
later.

>
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>(My ASCII Christmas tree from '98)

obascii - tree topper

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lgbeard