Snoopy and Charlie Brown's Christmas

Dear hubby loves Snoopy and my kids always liked Charlie Brown!



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Have a Merry Snoopy and Charlie Brown Christmas!


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Thanks Anne. I love Snoopy and Charlie Brown too.
John S
PDX OR

It's funny, my brother-in-law sometimes buys me Snoopy and Charlie Brown themed things for holidays. I thought it was just that HE liked them. This year, he actually said, "I know you like Peanuts, so I stopped by the Charlie Brown store." I was really confused, since I've never expressed a love for Charlie Brown. Sure, Snoopy is cute and I've watched some of their specials, but I hold no great love for them.
When I got married, my husband and I chose the Peanuts song as our music for the end of the ceremony. We picked it because it sounded fun, but it's apparently branded me as a lover of all things Charlie Brown!

As a child my pack of Snoopies usually gained a few members each Christmas, all eager to romp around in the litter of wrapping paper and boxes.  Most of them have trotted off to other places now.  The remnants of the pack aren't quite as playful as they used to be, quite understandable since they are now elders, over 300 years old in dog years.  However, they still would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas full of warmth, love, and dog treats.

I originally bought my property because it had lots of Juniper and Pine trees scattered all around. They are essential for providing shade here so I can grow lots of flowers and fruits and vegies and more trees. Also found lots of young pine trees growing and more sprouting up every year. I have cut down many of these young seedlings to make room for beds and paths.

One day I decided to cut down this little ugly, pathetic looking pine tree. And then I thought..... WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?? O.K. I don't have time to go into all that! I'm saving all that for a therapist some day. But, I realized just in time that he's not so pretty.... Well, I'm no Queen of Sheba either! And the little guy wasn't in my way, it wasn't hurting anybody and he is a great benefit for our planet.

So, instead of cutting him down I have nurtured him and cared for him for many years. I've grown to like him very much. He is my Charlie Brown Christmas tree. I take good care of his friend (the Red Baron) too because everybody should have a friend.

Stay well and healthy my friends.  Wishing you all a white Christmas and New Years. And when you run out of white.... open the red.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday 2022!


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It was a different time and era, but for many years when the wife and kids were here, we would go out and find a tree on our homestead. Some years we had perfect trees, and others... Charlie Brown trees. But it did not matter to me, some seed from some tree fell, landed on good soil and grew, and even if it did not grow huge, it grew to provide us with something... on our homestead.

But isn't that what we are to do? Having no control of to whom we came from, where we grew, or under what circumstances, we can at least be useful despite so many variables we have no control of?

Whether a small Charlie Brown Christmas tree, or a giant spruce hewn into a beam for my home; big tree or little, we got something out of it, No where in there did I say it had to be a glorious, shaped tree to work well. We chose it as a family, and we used it in Christmas tradition like a family. There is something noble in that.

Mug up this Christmas, even if this picture is from a bygone era.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and Joy to the world!


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