My issue started because real trees are beginning to cost so much money. It has been easy to spend way too much money on a real tree. I could have bought a top of the line artificial Christmas tree a few times over in the years Lyn and I have been married.
Around October of this year I was walking around and I noticed a cedar tree that would make a nice Christmas tree, the problem was it belongs to my neighbor :P I began to look around our land for a proper cedar tree that would work as a Christmas tree for us.
There is a problem with cedar trees. They don't have real pine boughs for branches, and they have a tendency to look kinda scraggly. I found three possible prospects that I was excited about. I finally picked one that was just off the driveway. It looked fairly uniform and seemed to be the right height. The problem was, the tree was situated next to a couple of TALL OAK TREES. These oak trees may have dwarfed the tree and made it look smaller than it actually is.
The day after Thanksgiving Lyn, Kevin and Hezekiah went to go cut down our tree.
They cut down the tree........
brought it up to the house......
It did look scraggly, but I thought there was hope.....
Then we brought the tree into the house.....
It wasn't so small......
It's almost as wide as it is tall......
It's scraggly......
But you know what? I like it. I'm pleased with it. Our tree is a wonderful Christmas Tree.
....and now I have a whole nother year to argue with myself as to whether we should buy an artificial tree!
Merry Christmas!
I love a real tree, too. We finally decided to buy an artificial tree on sale after Christmas. We have a real tree every other year and use the artificial tree in the off years.
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