Another Tree

Last Christmas I had this great idea to buy a smaller, skinnier Christmas tree that would exclusively display all of the kid's hand made ornaments.  I was all gung ho on the idea and went looking for a fake tree.  At some point in this process, my enthusiasm started to wane and I decided that I would just wait and buy a tree after Christmas and get it on clearance.  End of that story.

About a week ago, my idea re-surfaced, but instead of buying a fake tree I decided that we would cut down a tree from our property and bring it home.  We have this area right behind our cabin that we affectionately call the pine tree nursery.  It is so thick with pines of all sizes you can barely walk through.  And honestly, some of these trees need to be thinned to let others grow to full size, so I don't feel too guilty cutting one down.

We decided to pick a nice, small skinny one, about 5 feet tall to take home.  Here you see Scott eyeing a nice "small" one.  You can tell how thick these trees are.  We found this little trail that meanders through them.

 The boys waiting for Scott to cut down the tree.

Scott lopped it down and we hauled it home.   Well, our 5 foot tree, turned out to be an 8' tree once we brought it into the house.  However, we did manage the skinny part and it looks very Charlie Brownish.  That tree is sucking down almost a gallon of water a day.

I bought some fun lights for it and now it is happily displaying all of our hand made ornaments.



I love it.

But that is not the end of the story.  As I was taking out all of my Christmas decorations, I came across a large garbage bag stuck in the corner of my storage room.  Imagine my confusion as I pulled off the bag to see what was inside, only to find a skinny 5' Christmas tree that I had bought last year on clearance.  I had totally forgotten about it.  So now, I have 3 trees and this one is sitting next to my piano with nothing on it.  That is the end of the story.