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No planets and spaceships this year

There will be no tree of ~~light~~ planets and spaceships (B7, Red Dwarf, B5) this year because Jasmin would probably break all the planets and chew the ships. There will just be Hanukkah candles, well out of her reach (which is growing ever higher; she got on the kitchen bench yesterday).

I never had a tree till a few years ago when I found the beautiful glass gas giants in a shop and needed something to display them on. It's weird though: it's become a habit in a fairly short time, and it seems strange not to be doing it this year and posting a photo of the Liberator on it.

For those new people who want to see the tree (small and not that spectacular compared to what people have overseas), have a look here. One of the posts has a link to what cats can do to a tree.

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I love the idea of a planet and spaceships tree! *filing away for future reference, next time I see a space ship model* Surely you need a little TARDIS?

If I had one, it would be there!

There will just be Hanukkah candles, well out of her reach

Yeah, you definitely want to be careful with cats and candles! Says the person who had a cat singe his tail fur on the flame of a gas stove once. :)

I haven't put up a tree in years, partly because the cats just won't leave it alone if I do, and partly because I'm lazy, live alone, and tend not to get too excited about holidays, anyway. If I had a bunch of spaceships to put on it, though, I might reconsider. :)

Ouch! I think you told me about that. The candles only burn for a short time and I won't leave them unattended.

The cats always left the tree alone. It might be OK next year. Actually I wouldn't have a tree at all if it wasn't for the glass planets, which I realised I could add ships to. After all, we don't do anything on the day or have visitors to admire the thing; it's really just to amuse ourselves (and you lot).

I don't think it really hurt him, but it sure smelled bad. :)

it's really just to amuse ourselves (and you lot)

And we do appreciate it. :)

Singed cat fur does smell bad. I used to have a gas cylinder heater, and Shiraz, being a semi-longerhair, did get close enough to scorch his fur on it now and again.

Which wasn't the worst he did...

On three or four occasions he sprayed the heater when it was unlit. When I next lit the gas, his urine would gradually burn off from the elements. It took an hour or so, and absolutely stank. Vile beyond belief, it was. Much as I loved him, that was hard to forgive, for a few hours at least (as the reek lingered about the flat).

Ooh, ick! At least mine never did anything like that. Not that they haven't done enough other stuff. :)

I do love your planet tree. We have a teeny tiny tree in my apartment, it's less than a foot high and it's made of plastic, but we love it. I'm looking forward to decorating our tree at home in London, though! We always go all out with the tacky decorations.

I suppose you've had them since you were a kid, and they're imbued with history and tradition. :-D Do you use lights? There's not much point here since the days are so long. Actually it's hard to tell there's anything happening here apart from the shop decorations (and I can't tell you how much I loathe fake snow and sleighs, esp in this heat).

imbued with history and tradition which may go a long way to explaining why we have only *two* wise men dangling from our tree :-)

LOL! I hope they're not dangling by their necks!

From their crowns, which, for all I know, may be equally as painful...

Well, perhaps it will just make you enjoy the tree more next year. I do love your spaceship tree; I was just telling a RL friend about it last week.

True. Jasmin should be fine by then too. The others cats never bothered about the tree. :-)

I has a look at your tree - wow, Liberator there like a real one! Hmm, I know myself what Tygr can do - and he is no kitten! I can imagine a missile of Jasmin taking your tree in pieces and enjoying herself...
We have got a green tree, usually a sprouce. We in the village can have one quite easily - most of people here are owners of a small piece of forest. So is my husband who inherited it from his parents. WE take a good care of this treasure - cleaning it and planting new trees. Christmas tree is an award for us!

Jasmin is much naughtier than Tessa was, but about the same as Claudia, I must say. Yes, she's a furry bullet, and so determined and independent. I'm dreading the first wet day when she can't go out; even when she's been out all day and is hungry, she wants more exploring and adventure and cries for it.

It's different for you, having your own woods. I hate to think of a tree being killed, but you can replace yours. :-) I could have one in a pot, I suppose, but it would soon get too big.

I hope you will have a picture or two of your cats and the Tree!:-)
Well, actually I do have a small tree in a pot but it still needs several years to grow. I only want to add that it ia necessary to cut some trees - it is a so called selection , lots and lots small trees grow wildly from the seeds - thëre are such THICK places here and there, and then the trees can´t grow properly, lacking place and light. So this is the right occasion for getting a tree. Lots of such "selected" trees are being sold in a market these days. However lots of poeple from towns just go plundering and if they are caught, they pay only a ridiculous fine. I would place them in a stock in the square as in the Middle Ages!

Fair enough!

I think the trees for sale here are grown in special plantations. Poor things, they only live a few months.

Shame you can't risk your gas giants this year.

We're debating if we can risk using the glass baubles with Emily coming, or just to use the unbreakable ones. I don't want to risk losing the glass because they date back to my childhood and are more than 50 years old.

I'd play it safe, either not use them or perhaps string them up high on a wall where they can't be reached. I'd put some along the tops of the windows, but Jasmin would probably try to climb the blinds to get to them.

Love the idea of planets & spaceships in a Christmas tree. Not having a 'proper' tree this year either, think we're just decorating the yucca...

:-D That's a cool idea! I just bought some sea-themed decorations for the tree next year: shells, starfish, and fish, to celebrate the fact that it's summer.

Oh, fantastic! That looks so good. :D I'm so getting/making my dad in law some tree ornaments like that! (we don't have our own tree since we always spend the holidays with family).

Not all of them look like gas giants, sadly, but a couple could be cracked icy moons! I have about seven ships, plus a scutter, all fairly small, but they don't show up as well.

I broke a planet last year, and I was really annoyed as the place I bought them closed down and I have no idea where I can get more. I think they came from Poland.

Scutter! :D

Shame they shut down! Sounds like a it was good place to shop.

It was full of the most interesting things, too.

Aw, that's a shame. The tree was pretty.
We can't really afford a tree for the flat. Instead we stole a traffic cone, which we plan to decorate.

ROTFL! That's brilliant!

Fortunately neither of my cats are inclined to climb my fake tree, though they can get a bit excited when it first goes up, so I usually put it up the day before I decorate it,
I use unbreakable decorations on the lowest branches as mine will play with them. Diesel is especially fond of anything shiny and will try to steal them off the branches. So at night I close the living room door to keep the cats out. Diesel hasn't (quite) broken anything yet, but she's bent some branches in her efforts to get things off.

The other cats are fine with the tree, but Jasmin would climb it. She climbed a tall tree on her second day out, going up more than one storey and coming back down again. She even climbs the clothes in the wardrobe so I have to keep her out.

I shut them out of the living room when I'm not in it too. There are too many breakables--and some furniture they all scratch. I should recover it in something less coarse.

Puts me in mind of last Christmas when we used to regularly find the tree on the floor where the cats had knocked it down overnight. Fortunately we used battery lights too as one of ours has a bad habit of cleaning her teeth on cables.

We certainly found out which set of unbreakable baubles weren't!

Tessa loved chewing cables. I hear painting Tabasco sauce on them helps, but I only heard that after Tessa grew (before being shocked) out of it.

Peri still hasn't. The others have ignored them. We now have 3 headphones in disrepair thanks to her depredations and had to replace the coaxial to the Telly. Fortunately she seems to ignore power leads - can cats sense voltage? but anything else is fair game.

Tessa chewed any cables and used to disconnect the TV. :-P We pulled the wires out of some bits of computer cable and gave them to her as a toy; they all love them; they're flexible and chewy, they can be dragged (by cats or humans), and Claudia especially likes tennis (batting one away).

Pity about no tree... but no, you wouldn't want Jasmin chewing everything this year. :(

And breaking everything. She's already broken a ceramic container. :-P Luckily my (empty) tea cup survived being knocked on the carpet.

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