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The on-going Battle of the Christmas Tree Skirt...
We've had our tree up since Thanksgiving. Not because I wanted to, but because we had to do some Christmas celebrating with DH's family the next day.
In lieu of a proper tree skirt, I've always used a dark red satin sheet, left over from DH's bachelor days. He only ever slept on it once (he kept sliding out of bed!), and they were too nice to trash (but I don't like sleeping on cold, slippery sheets myself). Now, if I were smart, which I am not, I would've sewn it into a cute tree skirt. I'm lazy. I just fold and drape it around the bottom of the tree.
Someone PLEASE tell my 9 cats that it is NOT a cat bed! Every day, I straighten the danged thing. When I come downstairs in the morning, they've dragged it across the room! Actually, TWO rooms, as it's in the dining room, which has a huge opening into the living room. They make a cute little nest out if it. I also observe several of them laying on it under the tree. I think Gemma is the ringleader, as she's always heading for the corner behind the tree, and I often see the tree shaking. Now that I have the tree in the dining room, at least I won't be startled by 2 yellow eyes peering at me when I'm on the sofa, reading, like last year (Lucie had made a nest in the center of the tree).
I suppose I've spoiled them with all of those faux-fur blankets I buy for them. Now, they expect satin bedsheets!
(What I should do, once my knee is better, and I can bend, is safety pin it in folds and then safety pin it around the tree trunk.)
But, what can one expect when you have 9 cats, including Los Tres Hooliganes? ("The Three Hooligans")?????
We've had our tree up since Thanksgiving. Not because I wanted to, but because we had to do some Christmas celebrating with DH's family the next day.
In lieu of a proper tree skirt, I've always used a dark red satin sheet, left over from DH's bachelor days. He only ever slept on it once (he kept sliding out of bed!), and they were too nice to trash (but I don't like sleeping on cold, slippery sheets myself). Now, if I were smart, which I am not, I would've sewn it into a cute tree skirt. I'm lazy. I just fold and drape it around the bottom of the tree.
Someone PLEASE tell my 9 cats that it is NOT a cat bed! Every day, I straighten the danged thing. When I come downstairs in the morning, they've dragged it across the room! Actually, TWO rooms, as it's in the dining room, which has a huge opening into the living room. They make a cute little nest out if it. I also observe several of them laying on it under the tree. I think Gemma is the ringleader, as she's always heading for the corner behind the tree, and I often see the tree shaking. Now that I have the tree in the dining room, at least I won't be startled by 2 yellow eyes peering at me when I'm on the sofa, reading, like last year (Lucie had made a nest in the center of the tree).
I suppose I've spoiled them with all of those faux-fur blankets I buy for them. Now, they expect satin bedsheets!
(What I should do, once my knee is better, and I can bend, is safety pin it in folds and then safety pin it around the tree trunk.)
But, what can one expect when you have 9 cats, including Los Tres Hooliganes? ("The Three Hooligans")?????
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