Tree Day

December 13th is the day we go get our Christmas tree, and it was one of the coldest days of the year. L decided that she and LG could stay in the heated car, while LD & I went and picked out a tree. We were at a local school, helping support the PTA… and you could tell that it was an all-volunteer operation. The credit card machine was down and no one could figure it out, the volunteers would congregate around one customer to try to help, subsequently leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

LD didn’t mind, he thought it was all great fun, especially since they were handing out free candy canes and chocolate kisses. He, of course, went directly for the biggest tree, but we scaled back to one that was more modestly priced. Out of the selection I gave him, he went right for the Charlie Brown tree. He said that it was lucky that there were so many space between the branches so it would be easier to carry.

Getting it on the roof of the car and secured with the 3 inches of twine they handed me wasn’t too bad. The nice thing was that I had no tailgaters all the way home. When we got to the Blue Moon, we took down the tree, then set it up in the living room, making it as straight as possible. We got the ornaments out, letting LD do all the decorating, while LG did a lot of undecorating. She thought that the shiny metal ornaments were especially tasty. This was the first year that LD decorated the entire tree himself, and there was no clumping at all… the ornaments were neatly spaced and the tree looked great.
When it started snowing later that night, we got LD out of bed to take a look. He was so excited that he ran out into the back yard in bare feet and his PJs – we quickly called him back inside.