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Hi Adele,
The actual tree doesn’t talk. It’s this little mouse thing that you plug in somewhere that turns it off and on with voice commands. I think it’s made by Mr. Christmas-I got it from the Q a few years back and then I saw them in the home improvement stores and got them for the kids too. It also plays some Christmas carols too. The grandkids love it. Years ago I bought from the Q a Santa called Show Me The Lights Santa that you told the Santa to turn the tree lights off and on. Well everyone else in the family ended up loving that so much-they would all come over to play with it-so I tried one year to get one for Greg’s siblings and mine but they no longer made them-they must have been a one and done kind of thing-I think they were from Mr. Christmas too-I don’t know why they make those things for such a limited time. I have also tried to get another talking advent calandar like mine which I think also might be Mr. Christmas-can’t get that anywhere either. Not on their website-nada. You can find the Show Me the Lights Santa on EBay for big bucks. I wish Mr. Christmas would bring some of that stuff back. The show me the lights Santa would start to get weird by the end of the season though and seem to turn the lights on and off whenever he felt like it. I always thought it was kind of like the ventriloquists dummy come to life so we retired him and he resides in a box in the basement amongst the other decorations.
I just watched that Great Holiday Baking program. How funny that they bake in a tent in the middle of a field. All I can say is watching it makes me want to eat a whole box of cookies. How about the Chinese Restaurant and the Eiffel Tower gingerbread houses. Wow! Those were impressive. Interesting that one lady is Jewish and she is baking all this Christmas stuff. lol Speaking of that-it seems like Hanukkah is early. Do you make any thing else besides the potato pancakes to celebrate. Gary gets the best of both worlds-he gets to benefit from both celebrations.
We had a new QVC tree a few years ago and it ended up being recalled. At first every one thought it would have to be shipped back but then they just said to cut the cord and send it in and they would refund our money. that was the last tree we got from the Q. Their trees are pretty costly and with the S and H cost we decided it was better to get them from a store and if something went wrong in the future we wouldn’t be out that much money. The trees aren’t as fancy but I am just as happy with the cheaper models. They get all covered with ornaments anyway. Plus every once in awhile a mouse will get into the tree and chew through the wires and then the tree is no good. That’s why I really miss being able to have cats-when we had them we had no mice in the basement.
I hope you found your garland. Every year I try to organize and mark everything but things just slip by me. Like Greg and I couldn’t find the bliss lights and that’s because they had stored them in a cardboard box instead of the plastic bins.
I was surprised to turn on the Q this afternoon and see Dan Wheeler. I thought he was going to take 4 months off after his wife died. I guess maybe he felt like he would do better going back to work and being around people. I’m glad to see that-I would think that would be helpful-working and feeling useful.
You know most motels have some handicapped accessible rooms. I guess you would have to make the reservation ahead of time to be sure. But sometimes that might be better than making the drive back home while you are both tired from the day. It could be a little mini vacation.
I hope that you found Colleen’s pictures. I wish we had a regular spot to post pictures like on the old site. The part here that is labeled photos seems to be only for the people that control the site. By the way-for Colleen’s sake I am posting an attachment here. It just so happens to be part of the Christmas gift for my groomer and pet sitter but I felt it was appropriate.
Gail