Merry Christmas from the Pond!
We wish all your Christmas dinners to be delicious,
Your families to be healthy and safe,
Your pies to be tasty
and your days filled with joy.
Invisible Friends,
you mean the world to me.
Thank you for filling my days with laughter and joy.
And now, a Christmas story from the Blond Duck’s past…
Once upon a time,
the Blond Duck wanted to celebrate Christmas with Ben. They had been dating a few years, and she wanted their apartments to look festive rather than the wastelands they usually became before the Christmas holidays.So she went to Wal-Mart and bought a $20 tree.
With a few boxes of cheap glass ornaments and tube lights, they transformed the tree into a tree the Who would be proud to call their own.
The next day, Ben awoke to a terrible horror.
The tree, the perfect $20 Wal-Mart Christmas tree, was covered in spider webs.
From millions of tiny spiders.
When the Blond Duck trotted up that afternoon, the perfect $20 Wal-Mart Christmas tree was on the lawn, most of the ornaments with it.
The Pond has had an artificial tree ever since.
December 25th, 2008 at 4:05 am
I don’t know if I should laugh or go ewww! So I’ll do both! Merry Christmas!!!
December 25th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Merry Christmas to you at the Pond as well! Funny about the tree (I think!)
Nancy
December 25th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Merry Christmas Duckie!!! I think my tree would have been on the lawn as well!! You probably would have been able to hear the screams all the way over in Texas!!! Have a wonderful day with your family and I hope you get lots of pie to eat!! XXOO
December 25th, 2008 at 5:47 am
I really think mine wouuld have been a smouldering pile of ashes on the lawn! Ick! Have a great day! Much love, Raquel XO
December 25th, 2008 at 7:02 am
That’s quite a Christmas horror story! Kind of a cross between “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Amityville Horror”.
Made me itchy (can’t abide spiders…even though I know they’re useful critters).
Have a beautiful Christmas sans spiders!
December 25th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Merry Christmas to you!!
December 25th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Ick! Don’t they know Halloween is OVER?
December 25th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Merry Christmas! – mary the food librarian
December 25th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Now I am feeling creepy…we had a terrible spider problem in my house in Dallas, but nothing like that!
Happy Holidays to your family and the little invisible crew!
December 25th, 2008 at 10:12 am
SPIDERS eeewwwwwww! That would have freaked me out too! Merry Christmas Miranda and Ben!
December 25th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Merry Christmas to you too. Bummer about the tree. YUCKY!! Well I didn’t get the stocking done YET due to life getting in the way. Hopefully by next year I have a good start on it. Hugs, Bobbi Jo
December 25th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Shorts? NO WAY!
Merry Christmas.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Great photo! Funny story! Merry Christmas! — Michele
December 25th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I see cheesecake in that photo. Great gams, duckie. Sending you and your loved ones warm wishes for a very Merry Christmas ~ Lisa
December 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Merry Christmas, Duckie! I wouldn’t trust a live tree that wasn’t outside for a couple of weeks to kill all insects. Artificial trees are the best in the South! Hugs to you, Ben and the babies!
December 25th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Okay, that’s a horror of a Christmas tale! Lol! Hope you and yours had a WONDERFUL Christmas, Duckie!!!
December 26th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Merry Christmas to you and Ben…and the tree…ha!
December 28th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Now that would be a nightmare I’m not sure I could recover from. Ughhhhh