Christmas Trees, Trains and More - 2025
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John from Indiana
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I think my dad either dug a hole and stuck the tree into the ground or stuck the tree into a bucket of water before we brought it into the house to be trimmed with bulbs and tinsel (one piece at a time)
PMW
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BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
It looks fantastic! Have a Merry Christmas
Bruette
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Under our living room Christmas tree.
I am way behind schedule this Christmas. I have yet to put the Polar Express on the rails under the living room tree. I won't even mention how far behind I am in the family room. I am not going to worry about it. I'll do my best, and I guarantee no matter what gets done I will enjoy Christmas!
I hope Everyone is enjoying the Holidays.
I am way behind schedule this Christmas. I have yet to put the Polar Express on the rails under the living room tree. I won't even mention how far behind I am in the family room. I am not going to worry about it. I'll do my best, and I guarantee no matter what gets done I will enjoy Christmas!
I hope Everyone is enjoying the Holidays.
BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
We had our annual friends get together last night, have a Merry Christmas!
Bruette
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@michaeljoe that is magnificent! I love your collection of cars and accessories. The blue and silver locomotive is perfect. Well done sir! Thank you for sharing your collection!
Bruette
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Happy Hanukkah!
Hanukkah 2025 will begin on the evening of Sunday, December 14, 2025, and will conclude at the end of Monday, December 22, 2025. During the eight days of the holiday, candles are lit each evening to commemorate the miracle of the oil flask and the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks.
Festivals of light brings Hanukkah to life, perhaps nowhere so brightly as at one Columbia, MD home
For the past 11 years, the Levine family, including Susan and Allison, 14, of River Hill Village in Columbia, have set up a spectacular Hanukkah display (the “River Hill Hanukkah House”) in their front yard with hundreds of items like giant inflatables, menorahs, stars of David, and LED lights. Allison Levine is holding her 8th grade Art class project “My Family Story,” a replica of the display. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun Staff)
Hanukkah 2025 will begin on the evening of Sunday, December 14, 2025, and will conclude at the end of Monday, December 22, 2025. During the eight days of the holiday, candles are lit each evening to commemorate the miracle of the oil flask and the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks.
Festivals of light brings Hanukkah to life, perhaps nowhere so brightly as at one Columbia, MD home
For the past 11 years, the Levine family, including Susan and Allison, 14, of River Hill Village in Columbia, have set up a spectacular Hanukkah display (the “River Hill Hanukkah House”) in their front yard with hundreds of items like giant inflatables, menorahs, stars of David, and LED lights. Allison Levine is holding her 8th grade Art class project “My Family Story,” a replica of the display. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun Staff)
AuburnCentral
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DeaconKC
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Dug out all the parts I had prepared today and put the Christmas decoration together [mostly]. Still have to put some construction paper down for a pond in the empty corner and some for a road behind the buildings. Letting everything is drying and tomorrow will shake the loose glitter off.
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Bruette
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They are all great, but I liked this one best. I love those Christmas lights and the Nativity is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Bruette
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In the autumn of 1843, Christmas was a fading memory.
Old rural traditions were dying out in the smoke and noise of industrial London.
Charles Dickens was facing financial ruin.
He walked the city streets at night, horrified by the child poverty he saw in the factories and charity schools.
He intended to write a furious political pamphlet to demand government reform.
But he stopped.
He realized a dry lecture would not move the hearts of the wealthy.
He needed a story.
He worked feverishly for six weeks, creating a miser named Scrooge and a crippled boy named Tiny Tim.
He insisted on a beautiful red binding and gold-edged pages, even though the high production costs cut his profits to almost nothing.
On December 19, 1843, *A Christmas Carol* was published.
The 6,000 copies of the first edition sold out in days.
The impact was immediate and overwhelmed the city.
Factory owners were reported to have closed their shops on Christmas Day for the first time.
Charitable giving surged across Britain.
The greeting “Merry Christmas” suddenly replaced formal pleasantries in the street.
He saw the greed.
He saw the need.
He saw the redemption.
Dickens didn't just write a book; he reconstructed the entire holiday around family, food, and generosity.
Today, nearly two centuries later, the story remains the moral anchor of the season for the English-speaking world.
It reminds us that no chain is too heavy to break, and no heart is too cold to be warmed.
And as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone.
Sources: [History.com] / [Britannica]
Old rural traditions were dying out in the smoke and noise of industrial London.
Charles Dickens was facing financial ruin.
He walked the city streets at night, horrified by the child poverty he saw in the factories and charity schools.
He intended to write a furious political pamphlet to demand government reform.
But he stopped.
He realized a dry lecture would not move the hearts of the wealthy.
He needed a story.
He worked feverishly for six weeks, creating a miser named Scrooge and a crippled boy named Tiny Tim.
He insisted on a beautiful red binding and gold-edged pages, even though the high production costs cut his profits to almost nothing.
On December 19, 1843, *A Christmas Carol* was published.
The 6,000 copies of the first edition sold out in days.
The impact was immediate and overwhelmed the city.
Factory owners were reported to have closed their shops on Christmas Day for the first time.
Charitable giving surged across Britain.
The greeting “Merry Christmas” suddenly replaced formal pleasantries in the street.
He saw the greed.
He saw the need.
He saw the redemption.
Dickens didn't just write a book; he reconstructed the entire holiday around family, food, and generosity.
Today, nearly two centuries later, the story remains the moral anchor of the season for the English-speaking world.
It reminds us that no chain is too heavy to break, and no heart is too cold to be warmed.
And as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone.
Sources: [History.com] / [Britannica]
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