O' Christmas Tree...
This is a picture of David
with our Christmas tree.
Yesterday, we all went to a Christmas tree farm in the valley where they will cut the tree for you right there. It was pretty funny how we bounced from one tree to the next commenting on each ones beauty and imperfections until we found "the one." It looked so much smaller before we tried to put it on top of the car. As we drove home proudly with our tree on the top of our car we were amazed and delighted at the looks, laughs and waves we received on our drive home. We laughed and waved proudly at our spectators as though we were in a parade.
On our way home we passed our friends Courtney, Greg, Vic and Sharon as they were getting into their cars after choosing their tree from a neighboring nursery. I called Courtney right away to see if she had seen us. I asked "Did you see us waving as we drove by with our tree on top?" Courtney said " No, but I saw a car go by with a tree on top."
None of could foresee the obstacles that would follow buying such a large tree. When we got home we discovered that our tree stand wasn't big enough to hold our mammoth tree so we had to go to home depot and buy one that would. Now, we face a few other obstacles. There is no room under the tree to place presents. I suppose we could just place them next to the tree but there isn't much room for that now that the tree consumes 1/4 of our living room. The next obstacle decorating it, none of us were up for that last night after hoisting the tree up on top of the Jeep and then lowering it back down and finally shoving it (literally) through the back slider door of the house, and making a trip to home depot for the new enlarged tree stand. And our final obstacle I don't believe that I have enough lights or ornaments to decorate our mammoth tree. Every time I walk past the living room and see our mammoth tree I just giggle, O' Christmas tree.
Meet Mammoth tree. I don't think this picture
does its size any justice.
2 comments:
Wowee! That is one HUGE tree :) We used to trim branches off the bottom so that there was 1. room for the gifts and 2. space to slide under it to keep it hydrated. They can drink a lot of water......It is gorgeous and looks very balanced. I can't wait to see it decorated. Sorry we didn't catch you in time for Susies' Jewelry open house...lovely.
Oh that picture does it justice alright! I laughed out loud when I read this and then to see the picture of it in your living room - and I thought MY tree was big BUT at least YOU will get the good tree scent and I'm sure it'll look less dominating all dressed up in it's pretties! I sooo wish I was there to help you decorate it, what fun!
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