Our Christmas Tree
Two years ago we got a slightly silly tree, because we couldn't find a Very Silly Tree. And last year we got a normal tree.This year, with enthusiasm, i announce that we got another Silly Tree! It's of the same cloth as the one three years ago; about a foot and a half of trunk left over from some previous year when someone cut their tree, and with branches springing joyously from the chunk of central trunk. I think it's beautiful. Off balance, nearly flat, utterly untrimmed and wild... and it was free. We went to Luurtsema Tree Farm, which is the same place we went three years ago. They have a pretty typical assortment of trees, nothing special, nothing bad. But they have let a whole section of their lot run kind of wild. So there's incredible variety of stunningly awful (or wonderful) trees. Some mostly dead ones, many trunk remnants, bush shaped ones, giant wild trees... Karen and i walked around laughing at them for fifteen minutes before finding the perfect one. "Perfect" being relative, obviously.
I suppose i'll have to refer you to Karen's post for today for pictures, because she took lots and hasn't uploaded them to her computer yet, and i'm irrationally tired right now (after the decorating and picture taking!) so i'm going to bed.