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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2006-12-13 12:43 pm

The downside of living with a professional naturalist...

Okay, we went looking for an . . . artificial . . . Merchantmas tree and found puzzled amusement -- several of the constructs defy taxonomy. Mixes of spruce needles and pine, Douglas fir and balsam fir, spruce and balsam...

Wife won't buy chimeras. Says they'd drive her crazy, every time she looks at them.

[identity profile] edschweppe.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Wife won't buy chimeras. Says they'd drive her crazy, every time she looks at them.

Well, then, tell her you'll use it to clean the flues of your fire-burning appliances, whilst doing your best Dick Van Dyke impression of Bert the Chimney Sweep singing "Chim-chim-era, chim-chim-era, ..."

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2006-12-14 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, people used to use small evergreens as chimney brushes...