Michelle and I did the Pacific Northwest thing and went out into the woods on Sunday to chop down our own Christmas tree.
We were originally going to get an artificial tree (because they’re easier) but due to nice ones being multipe-hundreds of dollars, and the strange looks we got from all the locals, we decided to do it the old fashioned way. So we packed up the old front-wheel drive sleigh, drove up to where the snow is deep, and snowshoed out into the wilderness to look for the perfect Griswold Wilcox/Zeigert family Christmas tree. Everything went pretty OK, except that dragging even the modest tree that we got through the snow is a lot harder than it looks on the cartoons. We had a couple of friends helping us (I owe them a beer) so the work was distributed.
We eventually got it back to the parking lot, lashed it to the roof of the Jetta, and brought it back to the homestead. Over the next couple of days we got it mounted, trimmed, lighted and decorated. It’s a pretty good looking tree for something we found growing in the woods.
Check out some of the photos we took.
Very nice. Sadly, my building doesn’t allow live trees (fire hazard), so I had to buy an artificial one. I miss the smell of a real tree, but at least it looks pretty nice.
Yours looks wonderful. I hope there are no squirells in it… that kind of thing can ruin a gold old-fashioned family Christmas.
sj