I remember when I was little my favorite part of
Christmas was when it was time to decorate the tree; I would always do the
Christmas village. The village consisted of 8 to 12 miniature houses and
buildings made of cardboard. They came from Germany and where finally made. I
would set them up under the tree or on a table near the tree and light them up
from behind with Christmas tree lights. Arranging them on a bed of fluffy
cotton that looked like snow, I added a plastic Santa, in his slay pulled by
reindeer. I spent most of the Christmas week arranging and rearranging the
scene. Sometimes I would combine the little village with the Nativity scene.
The scale was off but it looked cool to see a little village around a gigantic
baby Jesus. As I got older I would add model airplanes, cars and model monsters
like Frankenstein and the Wolfman. At times I took one of the buildings to the
backyard and blow it up with a leftover firecracker or cover it with model glue
and set it on fire. By the time I was eleven there were only 6 or 7 of the
miniature German buildings, and the little baby Jesus had been replaced 2 or
three times due to sacrifice by fire on the seat of a “Weird-ohs” hot rod model.
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