Turkey isn\’t the only thing to get trimmings. The Tree gets its share of trimmings, too!

Lights help brighten things up. The twinkly kind weren\’t around yet when I was young. We had the kind of bulbs that were night-light size, and in different colors: red, green, blue, orange, white.

Speaking of night lights, when we kids were small someone gave us a Donald Duck night-light. We declared that it had to go on the Christmas tree; and we had that light until I was grown up. We still put it on the Tree even after it stopped working.

When I was about six, Christmas trees made of aluminum were popular. People who had that kind of tree sometimes had a small floodlight that they could aim at the tree. This thing had a turning plate with four sections of different colors; so that the tree had a different colored light shining on it about every five seconds. Putting lights on a metallic tree was a big no-no, as there was the risk of creating an electrified booby trap for anybody who touched it.

We had some very old ornaments that my mother had bought way back when, I think during the Depression and WWII years. One was shaped like a viol. For some reason I was especially fond of that one.

There was one made of glass-like material, shaped like a bird, with fiberglass filaments for a short tail. And one, a small trumpet, could actually blow! There were ball-shaped ones with a small \”dent\” in one side. Oh, and a lot more.

Then there are ornaments in shapes other than spheres: snowmen, reindeer, snowflakes — pretty much anything you want. Tinsel makes a nice finishing touch.

Let your imagination run wild, trim up the Tree, and enjoy!