(12-05-2022, 03:49 AM)VioletDove Wrote: @"Nightskyeb4dawn2"#27 I’m kind of the same but it’s because way out where I live we don’t decorate because nobody ever sees it. I don’t even put a tree up. I just enjoy the fruits of everyone else’s labor.
Crazy thing is, as isolated as I am in the area where I personally live, I still used to put up a Christmas tree on the porch.
With the dark coming early it was a warm welcoming sight to come home to.
I noticed a few years after I had started doing it, the neighbors children were old enough to appreciate my modest Christmas tree, and they pushed my neighbors into putting up some sort of a display.
It was odd, but nice, to drive down an isolated dirt road and be welcomed ever few yards of so with a Christmas greeting.
In the woods, and in the dark. It has a slight magical tone to it.
People treat you the way you teach them to treat you.