Christmas Pyramid

For my parents' first Christmas together, my mother bought a German Christmas Pyramid, even though it was a very big splurge spending-wise at the time. It was an integral part of our family Christmas growing up.

This year I was finally able to discover its proper name via Google (I had tried all manner of keyword combinations... further confirmation on how useless search can be when you don't know the name of what you're looking for).

Traditionally, Drake and I light it after Christmas dinner. And every year we have the discussion about which way the blades should be pitched to move the sheep forward (instead of backwards), and whether the blades need to be pitched steeply when the candles are tall--or less steeply.

It's also very hard to find the right candles for it. We finished off the last of our candle stash this year, so we will be on the lookout again for slender ~6" tapers.