Every year we've gone as a family on the Friday after Thanksgiving out to a tree farm to get a tree. For whatever reason, that didn't happen this year. I hung lights last week in the freezing cold and going out and hunting for a tree didn't sound too appealing. We'd even considered buying a fake tree for the first time ever just to avoid the hassle.
Yesterday we figured we had to get it done so we bit the bullet and went to a nearby tree lot. The trees were actually fairly nice and reasonably priced, but we didn't have the fun experience of tromping through the snow and mud to cut down the tree and bring it home.
The guy at the tree lot was a little old man who told us waaaaay more than we wanted to know about the trees, about watering them and securing them to your car. In between all of that, he was able to work in his view of the auto industry and how he had predicted this through his own personal research years ago. I refrained from telling him that he should have shorted the stock and made millions.
We got the the tree home and in the stand. We have this funky stand that I purchased years ago that has a single spike sticking out of it. The place we typically go to drills the tree for you and it all works beautifully. I tried to drill the hole myself and created way to big of a hole. The result was a tippy tree that had a tendency to topple. Today we'll hang the ornaments and start decorating the house.
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