The Batcave Crap Tree December 5, 2010
Posted by batbear in News.trackback
Hi, it’s Batbear. It’s been a long time since I posted, but I thought you should know that I am guarding Michael’s awesome Crap Tree.
A few years ago, Cathy was so moved by Dave’s Crap Tree post that she decided to let Michael have a crap tree again, like the crap trees they had when they were first married. Which got banned eventually when Cathy and the kids wanted Nice Trees with white lights, like you see in department stores. So, now Michael has a crap tree he can decorate, as long as it stays out of sight in the Batcave, and does not distract attention from the Nice Trees on the first and second floors.
It’s a great crap tree, and I am protecting it from criminals.
Don't mess with this tree!
The tree actually looks awesomer than this picture shows, because the flash kinda washed out the colored lights.
By the way, if you look at the most prominent position on the tree at top center, between Frosty the Snowman and the dog, Michael hung his U.S.S. Nimitz challenge coin that he got from Command Master Chief Petty Officer Airdale, with the help of a little tape. He did this because he has a Nimitz coin, and you don’t.
All of the ornaments on this tree are awesome. You can see a sample below the break.
Batman, Dallas Skyline, and Buzz Lightyear
HAHAHA! I love your crap tree!
We still have not put the tree up yet.
There can be only one, although I wouldn’t mind a crap tree.
God bless us.
Every one!
Fake tree from Thrift Store…………. $10.00
Ornaments, Lights, etc. for Crap Tree… $45.00
Michael’s Happiness…………… PRICELESS!!!
Do I see a darling golden retriever on that tree?!
It’s the perfect tree for white hot crime fighting thugs.
My tree is still a Crap Tree. I have all the cheesy ornaments my kids made. Well most of them. And a few I’ve made. I get misty putting them up every year.
Do I see a darling golden retriever on that tree?!
Yes, there is a retriever below and to the left of the Nimitz challenge coin. That’s not the only dog ornament on that tree.
It’s the perfect tree for white hot crime fighting thugs.
I love you so much. I miss standing in your yard behind the bushes while the mini-blinds were open.
We’ve tried to make our tree nice, but it still looks like crap.
Need a closeup of the challenge coin.
I need to add a pic of my awesome Godzilla ornament I got from Geoff.
It’s craptastic . . . AND BEYOND!
Michael thank you for your kind words. But you don’t want to be standing outside my house anytime this week. It’s about 12 degrees with a stiff north wind.
We still have only one tree, and it is a mix of “Crap Tree” and “Nice Tree”. We put all the handmade, and one-of-a-kind, and special ornaments on first, and then fill in the space (we tend to get the biggest tree we can fit) with “nice” ornaments. And yes, there are multiple dog ornaments on the tree, and Star Trek, and fishing, and even a Grateful Dead one. The sterile “store display” type tree just doesn’t cut it for us. But we did move from colored to all white lights a few years back.
>> It’s about 12 degrees with a stiff north wind.
oh I wouldn’t a said “stiff”.
*erase erase erase
Need a closeup of the challenge coin.
Michael’s photographer gets her camera and heads for Batcave.
crapolicious if you ask me. I was hoping for a close up of the hot red headed chick just above batman.
Here’s a close-up of the challenge coin.
http://michaelscomments.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/challenge-coin-50.jpg
I was hoping for a close up of the hot red headed chick just above batman.
That hot red headed chick just above Batman is,
um… Woody from Toy Story.
Damn! If I had known just how good looking that challenge coin was, I’d have kept it for myself!
Cathy – thanks for clearing that up. There have been times when it’s hard to tell.
[stops to take time to clean old man glasses]
So, tell me. Can guys use the word ‘chick’ anymore or is that way too offensive?
The babes don’t mind.
Doxy if you don’t like her or poppet if you do.
OBF
I’ll answer to Chick, Wimmins, Babe, and Hottie.
OTOH, Old Lady and The Little Woman are like fingernails scraping a chalkboard.
“She Who Must Be Obeyed” has an old-school feel to it.
Chick is okay.
I am referred to as The Little Filly occasionally. Better than Mule I reckon.
Ok, so is “homina homina” just right out?
Not to split hairs here, but aren’t all mules male? I know they’re sterile, but I could swear that they’re all male as well.
My bad. A female mule from a male horse/female donkey union is called a “hinney”, and a female mule from a male donkey/female horse union is called a “molly”. Apparently, the success rate for mH/fD cross is much lower than that for a mD/fH cross, so there are a lot more mollies than hinnies.
So I guess I didn’t know everything about mules after all. Believe me, if you’ve ever been around mule people for any length of time, you just might consider that to be a GOOD thing.
Just don’t call me “The Old Gray Mare” and we’re fine.
Nah, Lips, we wouldn’t call you that.
That’s what we call Mare.
OK then, whew!
The whole mule/donkey thing is mysterious. But I hear donkeys are good guard animals in say, a goat herd or chicken yard. They can kick a coyote clear across the county.
The first time a friend of mine told me the donkey in the fence with his goats was a “guard donkey” I thought he was completely dicking with me.
But it’s true.
Quite a few of my neighbors use llamas with their sheep. A lot of the llamas seem to be named “Tony.”
*bursts out laughing*
I had a mule once. She was real sweet natured until you were riding her and another horse came up behind her.
It seems she was a ‘Racing Mule’ and the jerks who owned her used to ride up behind and zap her with a hot-shot to make her go faster. Once she started running (real fast), she wouldn’t stop.
I got bucked off twice in ten minutes. Fortunately it was an a sand covered arena. I don’t think I rode her more than a couple of times after that, before I sold her.
You touch me with that thing and I’ll give you such a pinch.
Dave, you make a very poor jackass.
Au contraire, I rather think I have skills.
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