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Epiphany
Baubles have been falling off my tree
Got needles where my carpet used to be
Oh how I love Epiphany

Suddenly
It’s only half the tree it used to be
Yet takes too much space and work to clean
My patience ended suddenly

Why it has to go I don’t know
It just has to be
The twelfth night has come
The much longed for Epiphany

Epiphany
I don’t really want to lose my tree
It’s all sparkly and yet is has to be
I need that decision made for me.


Actually, according to superstition/tradition the decorations should have come down last night but I was busy being a crazy soccer mom and beest was "working late at the office". He's at "the office" again this morning (;)), which is why I'm rebelliously arsing about in my housecoat butchering the lyrics of classics rather than actually doing the damn task.

When did your decorations come down (if you had any up)?

I love my tree. It takes several hours to decorate with hundreds of small plain glass baubles, set off by silver tinsel and multicolored mini lights. And longer to disassemble and put the decorations away. The decorations rarely get put away properly, it takes so long. I usually manage to box the baubles, fold the tinsel .... then everything else gets hastily shoved in the remaining boxes and whisked off the the basement because we are expecting visitors and we can't reach the front door for christmas decorations..... *sigh*

I have to use tradition to make the decision as to when it come down, otherwise we'd be sat here in the middle of August with a large decorative twig pretending not to be a fire hazard.

hmm only just noticed the typo in the title. roll

I undecorated the tree yesterday and am finishing the undecorating of the house today. In this unseasonably warm weather my daughter is outside in a sleeveless shirt and shorts as we toss the tree off the deck. This is really weird.....

Took ours down last week (wed) put them back in the boxes and getting ready to store them in the attic space above the garage .
just had a pull down stairway built to access it and am planing in the near future to install a floor and simple lighting up there .
another new place for my wife to fill up with quilting material. which is stuffed in every available closet in the house .
i digress

Yep, tree came down on the 6th, don't want to upset the applecart and give myself MORE bad luck.

Mine came down on Tuesday 2nd, I get sick of thinking about doing . . so I just get it out of the way!

I just realised that your ditty is "yesterday" roll
I'm not really slow....

lol

6th January! was raised that it's bad luck for the upcoming year if you remove them before.
Call me superstitious ;-)

I was brought up with the same superstition... but then again a superstition and bad luck are hardly Biblical. Adding a bad luck clause at the end of a joyous season is so....

Catholic?

lol oops roll

OK maybe not Catholic but it really doesn't fit Christmas does it.

Well now we finally have our beautiful freeze, there's no way those outside lights are coming down before spring break, so I guess I need to find a black cat and work out if I want it to cross my path or not......

lol

Wouldn't know - wasn't raised Catholic - come to think of it
wasn't raised very biblically either. 8) :twisted: