<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Jane's post reminded me of a story from our past. When my husband was a toddler, one of three, his family did used to (is that grammatical?) hang their Christmas trees from the ceiling, upside down. His dad put a big hook there, then used it as a pulley, tied a rope around the bottom of the tree, and hoisted it up upside down. The family used all their usual decorations. The tree, now looking like a well lit evergreen ice cream cone, hung suspended with about four feet of air between its point and the floor. I suspect to basset-proof in this fashion, one would need a very high ceiling and about 6 feet of clearance at the bottom. </DIV><!-- cg19.c2.mail.re1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Tue Dec 1 10:58:43 PST 2009 --></div><br>
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