This guy looks serious about guarding his tree!
We are in the thick of the season here in our own private Whoville.
Yesterday we went to pick out our tree.
It seems we had different views about what sort of tree is right.
The man thought a nice SMALL tree was what we wanted.
We who?
His reasoning was sound enough.
1) Price.
Why is it that we live with firs and pines all around us
Yesterday we went to pick out our tree.
It seems we had different views about what sort of tree is right.
The man thought a nice SMALL tree was what we wanted.
We who?
His reasoning was sound enough.
1) Price.
Why is it that we live with firs and pines all around us
and are charged a fortune for a tree?
2) Placement.
There is a hope chest in front of our picture window where we both
2) Placement.
There is a hope chest in front of our picture window where we both
agree the tree should go.
I saw no reason that the hope chest cannot be relocated for a few weeks.
Or I didn't until I tried to move it myself...
and found that it was stuffed with very heavy items,
that would require being unloaded before relocation and reloaded after.
I have no desire to be the one who breaks precious family china.
I reset my priorities on tree purchase and off we went.
The original deal was that if I went with a small tree,
I could get a Noble.
Yay!
Until the price of very small nobles was too high for even me.
"Dougie" now lays in the back of the truck.
Its cold out there and better to keep him fresh for now.
Meanwhile...
the man climbed the ladder to the attic and handed down the boxes of Christmas stuff.
Obviously we do not need all the stuff there.
So began the "sorting out of things".
The man began to spend hours trying to find
the one or two burnt out bulbs in the outside lights,
that keep the entire string from lighting up.
Hours!
I guess you know you are getting old when you need a
magnifying glass to see if the tiny lights are burnt out.
Eventually he gave up on that method and took all the
bulbs out,
I saw no reason that the hope chest cannot be relocated for a few weeks.
Or I didn't until I tried to move it myself...
and found that it was stuffed with very heavy items,
that would require being unloaded before relocation and reloaded after.
I have no desire to be the one who breaks precious family china.
I reset my priorities on tree purchase and off we went.
The original deal was that if I went with a small tree,
I could get a Noble.
Yay!
Until the price of very small nobles was too high for even me.
"Dougie" now lays in the back of the truck.
Its cold out there and better to keep him fresh for now.
Meanwhile...
the man climbed the ladder to the attic and handed down the boxes of Christmas stuff.
Obviously we do not need all the stuff there.
So began the "sorting out of things".
The man began to spend hours trying to find
the one or two burnt out bulbs in the outside lights,
that keep the entire string from lighting up.
Hours!
I guess you know you are getting old when you need a
magnifying glass to see if the tiny lights are burnt out.
Eventually he gave up on that method and took all the
bulbs out,
replacing them one by one and chucking the ones
that did not light the strings up.
I had my own part deciding which ornaments would be used.
Not much choice really.
Besides the man's football ornaments
(Raiders and Ducks)
all we have are plain plastic gold balls all the same size.
These are some we were gifted with when I'd left all my
ornaments with my boys.
I think they must have been from a theme tree.
One with gold balls, gold garlands and all white lights.
I'm not a theme tree person.
I did find a string of multicolor lights.
Yay!
But no cherished memory ornaments from children now grown.
Sigh.
I'm thinking now that Elmer's glue and glitter
will give the gold balls character and color.
I'll string Trix cereal for a garland
and make some baker's dough ornaments
to paint and add to the mix.
Time to make new memories!
So do you have a favorite thing to do or make for your tree?
Are you a theme tree person?
Or is your tree filled with memories?
that did not light the strings up.
I had my own part deciding which ornaments would be used.
Not much choice really.
Besides the man's football ornaments
(Raiders and Ducks)
all we have are plain plastic gold balls all the same size.
These are some we were gifted with when I'd left all my
ornaments with my boys.
I think they must have been from a theme tree.
One with gold balls, gold garlands and all white lights.
I'm not a theme tree person.
I did find a string of multicolor lights.
Yay!
But no cherished memory ornaments from children now grown.
Sigh.
I'm thinking now that Elmer's glue and glitter
will give the gold balls character and color.
I'll string Trix cereal for a garland
and make some baker's dough ornaments
to paint and add to the mix.
Time to make new memories!
So do you have a favorite thing to do or make for your tree?
Are you a theme tree person?
Or is your tree filled with memories?
