HOW WE MADE

the alternative Christmastree? The old, big wooden table-top, at one side purple (guess from what period), we set upright against the while wall. Mischa and I hammered the nails in the form of a pine tree in it, I decided the tree looked too narrow, so the nails out and hammered in a new wider form. Looked great!
Then the swing with many, many lights tried if all the lamps were in order. One wasn't. There were two reserve lamps. Quite a time was spend by Piet Hein to remove the not working one and trying to put the other one in. At last we found out that these did not work either.
But of course we have another smaller swing. All the lamps worked. From the top we drape the swing along the nails. Ready? Try it now with the lights on.
An amazing sight but it did not look like a tree at all now. More like the stars you see at the sky in the night.
We had a good laugh for some time. What now? But there is always that moment that a bright idea pops up. Why not drape the golden coloured guirlands around the nails?
And it worked, now a kind of shape of a tree could be seen. The baubles could easily be hanged on the wire of the swing. The green and red ones. The three little birds followed and the bells. Lights on!!!
This morning I happily finished the last decorations. Empty boxes to the attic.
Mischa felt so much better, light at the end of the tunnel. Time for a nice walk in the forest. We followed the path till it started to rain and no shelter to be found, we knew. We turned around and walked the same path. At one moment we hear an unfamiliar sound and Piet Hein shows us the boars with young one going uphill in a row andthen they disappear behind the top.
It is quickly getting dark at five o'clock.

My haiku:

We follow the path
Slightly climbing and turning
Many trees are marked

And the proverb by Pope:

A tree is a nobler object than a prince(ss) in his(her) coronation robes.