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Oh, Christmas tree?

So, I'm a "real" tree kind of a person and I think Eric is too.
My family used to tredge up north in the early parts of December and cut down our own tree for Christmas and I'll never forget it.
I want it to be a traditoin for my kids as well.
We went last year with Grace and the year before when she was really little and have always ended up with a tree, cute or not.
Last year it was a long two days of searching and finally we found a tree place that had tons of "good" trees, so we went there first this year.

Eric, Kara, Grace, Noah and even Lucy went for a walk in the woods for "the" tree for 2008.
We found it rather quickly which was nice, and I'm starting to not care so much what it looks like, just that we ALL go get it.
It came home atop the new minivan and made it in one piece.
Eric set it up outside and dragged it into it's "place" in the house shortly after.
Lights (white this year) were hung and all the pretty ornaments along with the not so pretty ones were hung with care, or not so much care if you're Grace. (she's learning)
We watered it and turned it on as much as possible all through December.
I noticed about a week ago that it was loosing a lot of needles , but there was still water in the container.

hmmm...

a few more days and listening to Grace say "Mommy, those porcupines (needles) look like grass" and it was time to loose not only the needles, but the whole tree.

Yesterday we got down to business.

Every time an ornament was removed I swear 100 more needles fell to the ground.

"At least there on the tree skirt" says Eric
Yeah, the tree skirt, great.

All the ornaments are off and 1/4 of the tree's total needles when I say, "we should put a blanket around it so they don't all fall off in the house, we did that last year."

I find the blanket downstairs with Grace's help.


The tree is a fat one so the blanket doesn't fit so much around as it covers one side.

"This isn't going to work" cries Eric
"Carry it out like a body bag" replies Kara

So that's what we did, our tree, which I can safely say had been dead for at least a week, and didn't drink any of the gallon of water placed in it's large container was carried off through the front door and stood up to take the lights off.

Here are pictures:
There are the needles that fell prior to removal of ornaments and during the process of
and you may notice the afore mentioned "gallon" of water from the tree's stand container.


After removing blanket and shaking it out



I think you may be able to count 24 needles left on the tree, before standing it up to remove the lights.
Needless (hee hee) to say they were given up shortly after this picture was taken.


Eric walked in the house after putting the carcass at the side of the road and says "It looks like our house just threw up a Christmas Tree."
Alas, another green Christmas for the Steinkes.
Until we meet again fair tree, RIP.






Comments

Heidi said…
Oh good god. THAT is why I insist on a "real" fake tree. Can't you enjoy the grand ole' tradition of removing the tree, piece by piece, from it's cozy box?
P.S. I really appreciated the pun...made me laugh out loud!!
January 4, 2009 at 10:21 PM
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