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Posted on: 12/10/10 12:28 PM ET
Scenario: DD and I have been planning since Thanksgiving to pick out and put up our Christmas tree tomorrow. Forecast in Minneapolis is for 12 inches of snow by noon tomorrow, blizzard conditions, temperatures falling by 50 (!) degrees to a low of -20 by Monday morning. Obviously, I'm not trekking out to pick out and carry home a tree in that kind of weather!

Enter on-line ordering: my local high-end greenhouse is offering a sale on Frasier fir trees, free same-day delivery. Problem solved! I will have a tree on my doorstep when I get home from work tonight. Tree will go up for decoration as planned.

And tomorrow I will spend the day baking cookies, while the embroidery machine chugs along on the dining room table, and I finish up my Amazon order to whisk all my presents to relatives far away. What in the world did I do before the internet era?????
  
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Posted on: 12/10/10 8:20 PM ET
That's great! I do the majority of my shopping online, but so far no Christmas trees. Your plans sound very cozy.

I've been keeping an eye on the weather out there. I have a son who is a freshman in Northfield, experiencing real winter for the first time. I lived in Minnesota for years, and am experienced with those -20 degree (and lower) temps. I'm curious how he'll react. He's pretty tough but that's also pretty cold!
  
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Posted on: 12/10/10 10:30 PM ET
We are experiencing a "good, old-fashioned Minnesota winter" this year, for sure!
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Posted on: 12/11/10 0:36 AM ET
Yup it's cold a little further north in Manitoba -- we've got no snow in the immediate forecast but our lows are pushing -30C (without the windchill) and our highs are in the -20sC. I don't have anywhere I have to go or be until Tuesday so I plan on staying in, sewing (both business & personal), cleaning and decorating the house and tree. I've got presents to wrap too.

I think I'll spread the wrapping paper and gifts out on the floor in the living room tomorrow, turn on the fireplace and put on a Christmas movie -- then I'll decorate the tree as well and stay comfy warm. Add a cup of mint tea or hot chocolate and it will be a perfect winter day.

Stay warm everyone.


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Posted on: 12/11/10 7:27 AM ET
In reply to SheBear0320

I have my Christmas music in the background while I cook and clean..
I am afraid I am getting spoiled to shopping on the net.. and having it delivered to my door. Sometimes I wonder if we will even have storefronts in the future.. but I am not too worried about it.. I just don't want to lose my excuse to get out of the house...
  
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Posted on: 12/11/10 8:00 AM ET
Just think how easy it will be when they finish constructing the "Scotty Beamer" so the waiting game for
ordered stuff will just be beamed to the house.
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Posted on: 12/11/10 8:27 AM ET
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Wow! Of all the things you can have delivered I would never have thought a Christmas Tree would be one of them! Too funny! Enjoy your decorating!

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Posted on: 12/11/10 11:08 AM ET
We moved to Minnesota from Texas, in February, way back in the early 1970s when they had the kind of winters MN is getting this year. It was quite a shock to this gal who had never experienced a real winter! Learned to love it and really was sad to leave in 1980.

As for on-line shopping -- is there another way?? I've done ALL my holiday shopping for years on-line and get it done early. ''Cyber Monday'' beats ''Black Friday'' easily! I got some fantastic deals without leaving home! I hate going to the mall and other places crawling with cranky, desperate folks, some of whom are coughing, sneezing, etc., leaving a trail of germs everywhere they go! Yuk! To tie all this together, when we lived in MN I could order my groceries via a phone call and have them delivered within a few hours. Sure came in handy during some of those blizzards and extremely cold days! Where we are now has on-line grocery shopping and delivery available from several of the stores.

I suspect there's nothing you can't order from the Internet!
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Posted on: 12/11/10 1:05 PM ET
I love being forced indoors. It gives one permission to do housebound activities like baking and sewing and staying in flannel jammies.
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Posted on: 12/11/10 1:22 PM ET
OMG, I live in Texas and I'm cold when it's 69 degrees out...I can't imagine 30 below! Currently it's 70 degrees here and DH and I just came in from raking leaves. We have three oak trees in the front yard that have only dropped about half their leaves, so we'll have to rake again later on.
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