Anybody doing wild New Year's Eve stuff?
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@ShiroKuro said in Anybody doing wild New Year's Eve stuff?:
My mother came over and Mr SK made toshi-koshi soba (year’s end soba noodles) for dinner. We visited for a while, she went home at 8pm maybe. Then we watched a movie, and were in bed 11pm.
Today we’ll take down our christmas trees (which will break my heart) while watching a recording of the 4-hour New Year’s Eve Japanese song contest Kohaku.
Taking down the tree makes me sad too. I also do it on New Year’s Day. It’s quite beautiful this year (even though the lower limbs are sparse and it’s slightly crooked - we cut it in the forest south of town) and I finally realized how much I hate LED christmas lights (the brightness and intensity of the colors) and I purchased some good old mini incandescents like I used to put on the tree. It made me very happy.
@Jodi said in Anybody doing wild New Year's Eve stuff?:
good old mini incandescents
Those are the best! The warm color tone is much nicer than the harsh white led light.
Our trees are all put away.
This year I had 446 ornaments between the two trees. Plus two tree toppers.
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SK and Mik, I like your trees!
Ours is now out for composting. Sorry, no pics. We don’t hang ornaments any more (time intensive), just lights. We also have lights around the front porch.
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I love your tree, Jodi, how pretty! Yours too Mik. I like those lights. I'm partial to the incandescents too. This year and last I went with the pre-strung leds on the artificial tree. I may go back to a real tree next year. I also love the large, old fashioned bulbs such as I remember from my earliest years.
I'll keep my tree and most of the decor up until Twelfth Night, which is Tuesday.
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Trees haven’t been right since we stopped using tinsel.
Remember tinsel?
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Trees haven’t been right since we stopped using tinsel.
Remember tinsel?
@Steve-Miller I do and I loved the look! The lead content wasn't such a good thing, though. Mylar tinsel is available but doesn't have the same look, imo.
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Talking of good old fairy light incandescents, I had to replace two bulbs this year. And they just blew again last night.
But I love them so, from around 1956, nursery rhyme bells that my parents had on our tree for years, these:
Here they are on our entrance hall mirror
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Trees haven’t been right since we stopped using tinsel.
Remember tinsel?
@Steve-Miller said in Anybody doing wild New Year's Eve stuff?:
Remember tinsel?
I remember finding it in the cats poop. Sometimes he’d walk away from the litter box with a poopy piece of tinsel hanging out his rear end.
Prolly good for them that we stopped using it.
