We put the tree up, and just as I was putting the last ornaments on the bottom
branches, congratulating myself for my patient and artistic placement of each ornament,
the whole perfectly adorned damn thing fell over on my head. Ten feet of it. 500 lights,
a zillion ornaments.
So where's the video? You could make a mint on a Funniest Home Videos reprise.
I finally broke down and bought one of the really heavy Beans tree stands. Big bucks, but it is solid. Would take a lot to tumble our tree. We're actually a tad taller than yours -- we have a 12 foot ceiling and I had to lop off the top of the tree to keep it from hitting the ceiling. Two ladders, but no 500 lights -- in our case only 8 strings of 25, or 200 total. But they're the big lights -- do you use those, or the small ones?
My job is the lights, then the wife and daughters put on everything else. A zillion ornaments sounds about right. I keep saying we should just buy an artificial tree -- there's so much stuff on it you can't see the tree anyhow.
But I get shot down every year. So once again in bitterly cold weather we tromped out to the tree farm, which isn't really a tree farm but is what someone once started thinking they wanted a tree farm but totally neglected and now the Lions just go and sell you-cut trees for $30, which is cheap enough. But it's really hard to find a good tree, since they haven't been cared for at all. And they were planted too close together because they were all going to be cut when five or six feet and now they're towering up and crowding each other out.
Oh well. After an hour of tromping everybody (except me -- my opinion doesn't count) settled on one and I cut it and of course it was in the middle of the forest and half a mile from the road, so such fun getting it OUT to the car. Whee.
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