Sharing a picture of me and my Great Granddaughter Kyra on my seventy second birthday which I celebrated April 25.Kyra is truly a miracle baby.She was born weighing a little under 3 pounds.
Last Saturday Jody and Alicia took me out for my birthday supper at Logans Roadhouse.All three of us but Jack ordered the salmon dinner and he ordered the fried cheeseburger.I couldn't eat alll of mine and had to take some homme in a box but it was delicious.My birthday isn't till the 25th of this month but they will be busy with prom around that time so we decided to do it early.After dinner we went to see Jurassic Park in 3D.We had an awesome time and hope to do it again soon.Our weather lately has been so weird.Snow and rain and wind,crazy.Don't know when I'll post again?Been slow at it.Thanks for dropping by.
Been a while since I posted.Easter sunday was great and Jody and Alicia were our hosts.The meal was awesome.I baked and apple crumb pie by request from Jody.Been painting a mural on my diningroom walls.It's turning out really good and I will post some pictures of it later.Not the easiest thing to do but I really enjoy doing it.Have a great Wednesday everyone :-)
Christmas Tree Traditions
The decorated Christmas tree can be traced back to the ancient Romans who during their winter festival decorated trees with small pieces of metal during Saturnalia, a winter festival in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture.An evergreen, the Paradise tree, was decorated with apples as a symbol of the feast of Adam and Eve held on December 24th during the middle ages.
Christmas trees were sold in Alsace in 1531. Alsace was at that time a part of Germany. Today it is part of France. The trees were sold at local markets and set up in homes undecorated.In the Ammerschweier in Alsace there was an ordinance that stated no person "shall have for Christmas more than one bush of more than eight shoe lengths."
Sixteenth century folklore credited Martin Luther as being the first to decorate an indoor tree. After a walk through a forest of evergreens with shining stars overhead, Luther tried to describe the experience to his family and showed them by bringing a tree into their home and decorating it with candles. Some historians state that the first evidence of a lighted tree appeared more than a century after Martin Luther's death in 1546.
The oldest record of a decorated Christmas tree came from a 1605 diary found in Strasburg, France (Germany in 1605). The tree was decorated with paper roses, apples and candies.In Austria & Germany during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the tops of evergreens were cut and hung upside down in a living room corner. They were decorated with apples, nuts and strips of red paper.
The first record of Christmas trees in America was for children in the German Moravian Church's settlement in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Christmas 1747. Actual trees were not decorated, but wooden pyramids covered with evergreen branches were decorated with candles.The custom of the Christmas tree was introduced in the United States during the War of Independence by Hessian troops. An early account tells of a Christmas tree set up by American soldiers at Fort Dearborn, Illinois, the site of Chicago, in 1804. Most other early accounts in the United States were among the German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania.
In 1834, Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, was credited with bringing the first Christmas tree to Windsor Castle for the Royal Family. Some historians state that in actuality Queen Charlotte, Victoria's grandmother, recalled that a Christmas tree was in the Queen's lodge at Windsor on Christmas Day in 1800.Charles Minnegrode introduced the custom of decorating trees in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1842.
By 1850, the Christmas tree had become fashionable in the eastern states. Until this time, it had been considered a quaint foreign custom.Mark Carr brought trees from the Catskills to the streets of New York in 1851, and opened the first retail Christmas tree lot in the United States.
Franklin Pierce was the first president to introduce the Christmas tree to the White House in 1856 for a group of Washington Sunday School children. The first national Christmas Tree was lighted in the year 1923 on the White House lawn by President Calvin Coolidge.
Jack and I wish each and everyone of you the most blessed and joyous Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year.Let's all be happy and thankful for what the Lord has given us and never forget his special gift to us in that lowly manger long ago.The true meaning of Christmas.Merry Christmas everyone.
I'm trying another offline blog editor for posting to my blog.This one is called BlogDesk and it seems pretty worthwhile.I've been looking for a good one to use on my Imac too.Jack surprised me today and ordered me the Macbook Pro 13.3 laptop with 128gb flash.I just about fell over and i was so tickled.He sure spoils me and I sure love him lots.
I learned tonight that my late son'e wife Vi had a heart attack today.She's only 61 years old and I pray she pulls through.I guess she has bloodclots in her legs and they'll be working on that tomorrow.Right now,she's in ICU in Wichita.Hope she gets along ok.
That's about it for now.Have a great Tuesday everyone.
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