SPECIAL WISH: “”A special Merry Christmas wish to all the
deployed soldiers, as being my family has been through this for two
Christmases. It’s equally hard for the soldier to be away from home
in very uncontrollable situations. One good thing is that they have
developed a new soldier family living daily together to help each
other.””[neWLine]
That’s the word from Lori Goodnoe of Mount Alton.[neWLine]
She continues, “”Another special Merry Christmas to the families
that are back at home supporting, missing their loved ones. Please
call anyone you know in this situation, and ask how they are doing
– a cup of coffee, a letter or any little thing will be remembered,
trust me. It meant a lot when these happened for our family. We met
new – and kept the old – as friends.””[neWLine]
“”Once again, Merry Christmas and pray the soldiers return
safely.””[neWLine][neWLine]
THOSE TREES: More than one reader has told us about the upside
down Christmas tree at Glendorn so many years ago. One was Sandra
Johnson of Bradford who tells us her mother, Bea Ward, had worked
at Glendorn. “”It isn’t anything new, Bradford had it,”” she
added.[neWLine]
We also heard from Bob Hasard of Eldred, “”Nothing new about the
upside down Christmas tree. Thirty years ago, the Ramble Inn in
Portville, N.Y., had an upside down Christmas tree with the
presents on the ceiling.””[neWLine]
In an e-mail, Mary Claire Coster reports, “”A few years ago I
was on a Christmas house tour in the Fan district of Richmond, Va.
In the front hall of a lovely home an upside down Christmas tree
was featured. It did free up floor space.””[neWLine]
Former Bradford resident Lola C. Schneider writes us, “”Several
years ago I visited a friend in Las Vegas and she had an upside
down tree (artificial, naturally) that was left up year ’round and
decorated for each holiday. I thought that was very
unique.””[neWLine]
Finally for today we hear from Anna Mae McMurtrie of Bradford:
“”My brother Dell Wilber of Palm Bay, Fla., had a year-round tree
upside down. It was always decorated for Christmas with ornaments.
When he’d get home, he loved to look at it as it ‘settled him
down.'””[neWLine]
Our rhetorical question: But how do you water it? (We’re
kidding, of course.)
