Dec 8, 2008 Monday

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Yesterday we got our Christmas tree.. It was either then or two days before Christmas.

So we found ourselves at the landscaping place which supplied our trees for the two previous years. It was below freezing with a wind chill factor in the gazillions. We looked at four trees, picked one, and we were home in less than an hour.

Our standard for Christmas trees has always been one that fills the room, and the width had to be eighty percent of the height (fat). We usually ended up with one that required trimming the top and base to fit it upright in the living room. And every year I acquired new ornaments, requiring successively larger trees each year.

But this year we went small (comparatively). I wanted a tree easy to decorate and maintain that wouldn't overpower the living room. Which the others always did.

We had the tree in the stand quickly and the Husband dragged out our Christmas stuff out from under the storage closet beneath the stairs. We were ready to begin, when I had to go into work. The Husband put the lights on the tree in my absence, and I took over the ornaments on my return.

It was after midnight before I quit, but because it was a smaller tree, the time passed quickly.

I'm gonna have to do this small tree thing next year.