12/08/2009

Top Holiday Memories - Episode 8

It isn’t common to have animals taking up residence in your Christmas tree, much less reptiles! A while back, I took to owning an iguana. Purchased a couple of months before Christmas, the second Christmas found my iguana, Grendle, almost three feet long and prone to wander about the house when let out of his cage. He seemed to like sitting along the back of the sofa most, yet one day this mini-Godzilla disappeared. We all looked for him for hours. No luck. Then, my oldest step-daughter gasped and pointed in the direction of the Christmas tree.


Our iguana had nestled in among the branches and seemed to be enjoying the warmth of the lights. From that day forward, until the tree was taken down that year, he would blot for the tree whenever he was released from the cage. It was fun watching visitors discover the beast in the tree.

So, what’s in your Christmas tree?

3 comments:

  1. Funny memory. I had an iguana once. Mine was stuffed though. Had no idea where it came from.

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  2. it could have been mine!!!

    thanks for the comment and the visit.

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  3. Egads! I'm afraid i would soil myself!

    In our tree which we just put up yesterday...gourds, my children's handprints, an angel that was my mother's tree topper from the 1960's as ugly as sin but very far from sin, things we have collected over the years. It was rather difficult to decorate our tree this year as it's the first year that my husband and I have separated. He was here and we four decorated together. Tonight we will to his house, we four again, and decorate his tree. Some of the special ornaments will be there, but most are here, as we will celebrate here this year.

    Strange times...

    xo
    erin

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