Have you got too curious cat or dog at home? If so, I think,
you familiar with this kind of Christmas carol:
Oh Christmas tree,
Oh Christmas tree,
Your ornaments
Are history!
Are you smiling? Me too! But, on a serious side, my family
know how to avoid ruining our Christmas tree or decorations by too curious
furry friend (in our case – our beloved Murchyk the cat :) So, in order to
avoid big Holiday Catsmess, two years in a row, since we got our Murchyk, we
simply… didn't have any Christmas tree. However, we have found few compromises,
like having kissing balls and swags – take a look; it was last year and a year before.
So this Christmas 2012 Ron and I have decided to go the same
way – to get few kissing balls in our favourite flower shop, and that’s was it.
Until we accidentally saw a perfect solution for our (and our cat’s) Christmas
– a table-top Christmas tree! Live! We have spotted it in local mall and bought
immediately. Good, we have a little patio table, so we brought it in, set up
our table-top Christmas tree on it, decorated it, and… it looks beautifully!
And, of course, unreachable for our curious Murchyk:
As you can see, the tree got a little stand with a bowl of
water; I water it regularly, so our tree can stay live in a house for long-long
time, which is good, because we are intend to keep it longer than for Christmas
and New Year. As we have explain in Murchyks blog introduction, our family is
Ukrainian-Canadian, so we celebrate Ukrainian Christmas as well (Ukrainian
Christmas is January 7).
So, we are really happy we have found a perfect Christmas tree
solution as for us, cat persons. But even having a table-top Christmas tree, I
still wanted a kissing ball, which I got; here it is, with Murchyk’s Christmas
stocking on it:
It’s so nice to wake up in Christmas time in a house full of
smell of a real fur-tree! And knowing that both your cat and your ornaments are
safe :)
