Oh my gosh, what a surprise to see my old post again! Thank you RGRS, I'm very flattered. I'm embarrassed to say that my home, decorated for Christmas this year, looks pretty much the same as it did in these pics. When I find a good place for a decoration, I tend to remember and put it back there again the next year. It works for me. The only major change will be my dining room table centerpiece. That I do change every year.

They feel plastic, but how much of your Christmas tree experience is touching the tree? Very little for me. Until I just read 1929's post about the needles in the middle, I hadn't even noticed that they are less realistic than the outer ones. I didn't pick up on it at all. It looks like a real tree. At first I was unsure about a narrow tree, but I'm totally used to it now. After years of short fat trees, I'm digging the graceful proportions. Cindy, thanks for the link for the FF reed diffusers. ETA: And thanks JePenseTrop for the links to diffiusers. Why do people buy special jars/containers for this? And why do some leak? I'd just grab a small vase (it's proven to hold water without leaking) and if it's ugly, just put it out of view. It's all about the scent, right?

No, but I think we used too much water to start with. My husband, genius that he might be, went dense when he decided that the hose would be quicker than a spray bottle. Winded up soaking the tree even with the mist attachment on. When we went to flock, the tree was soaked but we still misted the flock to activate it. Next day, the tree was still wet. Think it took a week to dry. But, between the ornaments and flock, it's bent out of shape. Here's two pics I just took. It's been flocked since 12/3.

I have had cats all of my life and now I have none. I don't want anymore because they might outlive me and I am enjoying the freedom of not having them to take care of. I never kept a box for my cats until we came to live in the burbs. My cats mostly wandered in and out at will. Even in the burbs I used to let my cats out and they used the box mainly in the winter time. You know that old adage about how if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is not true? Apply that to Febreeze. That stuff is scary! Really? It eliminates odors? Scary, scary, scary. I would never buy it, ever, in any form. One of my cats was doing really poorly with lots of hair loss, losing weight, and just all around bad health. I had been feeding him the Costco brand of wet food. Once I quit that, he turned around quite quickly. I think that stuff was bad, bad, bad. One thing about that litter, though, It seems that if this would be happening to enough cats that it would be a known issue. It seems that a vet might warn people about this. There is so much cat litter sold and so very many cats that it has to have happened before. It can't be an isolated experience. Did your vet directly attribute this blockage to the litter? It certainly seems like it plausible. That stuff is very hard to dissolve with water. I think that type of dirt is used to line livestock ponds with. What a lot of money people spend on kitty litter and kitty food! What an industry it is!