Chapter 2020: Trees- Real, Artificial, or No Way Jose, plus decorating
I was recently heard a report on NPR about the price of real Christmas trees skyrocketing and selling for $150 in large cities, and I looked at our $350 artificial tree pre-wired with lights and felt pretty good about it.
Although raised Presbyterian, briefly a church member in my teens, now Agnostic, with a non-practicing Catholic wife (who sounds more agnostic every day) we like Xmas trees as decore, more a nostalgic feeling, although they are a lot more work if you take the time to load them with ornaments.
I’ve also scaled back my outside decore, a couple of strands of lights on some bushes, 3 Wise Pink Flamingoes, and a newly made pineapple wreath over the dining room window (Wife’s request). I’ve semi-vowed no more ladder work for decoration, although I violated that briefly to put the wreath up, but that is a good trade off with wrapping tree trunks with lights.
I was recently heard a report on NPR about the price of real Christmas trees skyrocketing and selling for $150 in large cities, and I looked at our $350 artificial tree pre-wired with lights and felt pretty good about it.
Although raised Presbyterian, briefly a church member in my teens, now Agnostic, with a non-practicing Catholic wife (who sounds more agnostic every day) we like Xmas trees as decore, more a nostalgic feeling, although they are a lot more work if you take the time to load them with ornaments.
I’ve also scaled back my outside decore, a couple of strands of lights on some bushes, 3 Wise Pink Flamingoes, and a newly made pineapple wreath over the dining room window (Wife’s request). I’ve semi-vowed no more ladder work for decoration, although I violated that briefly to put the wreath up, but that is a good trade off with wrapping tree trunks with lights.
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