The first Christmas Scott and I were married we lived in Florida and got a tree at a local lot the day after Thanksgiving. We went out of town for about ten days around Christmas time and when we got back that tree was very dry. When we tried to take the tree out of the house and pushed it through the doorway, needles got shaved off the tree (by the door jam) in huge waves. Needles fell everywhere, covering the carpet and the ground outside the door and leaving an incriminating carpet trail of dry needles to the trees final resting place by the trash. Not many needles were left on the tree. It was like in the cartoons when the cat eats a fish and pulls out all the bones, intact from his mouth. It was a huge mess but we laughed and laughed about it. Even now I can't think about that tree without laughing.
This year our tree fared a lot better and I had to show Scott just how well it did. I feel like this should earn me tree points.
We vacuumed the day we got the tree but didn't vacuum at all after that, and these were the only pine needles that fell off. Amazing!
Here is the front step after squeezing the tree through it. Not many pine needles.
No carpet of pine needles here. Do I get tree points yet?
And here is our tree's temporary resting place on the side of the house.
On Saturday the boy scouts are going to come take it for us.
I felt kind of sad bringing the tree out to lay in the snow after I saw how robust it still was.
I think he wanted to say, "I'm still alive!"
Oh well, rest in peace tree.
And as an added bonus, here is a picture of our Florida Christmas tree
This was when the needles were all still on the branches...and not on my carpet. :)
1 comment:
You definitely earned tree points. I'm impressed. There was no trail of incriminating needles leading from our doorstep to the dead tree (aka stick) by the side of the road ;)
Love,
Scott
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