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Tis the Season

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Tis the Season

Hello!
I love this season of the year! I love the live tree in the house and the smell of it! I love the sparkles and the decorating! I love the joy and all the colors and the special time that it is!
And you know there is a “but” in there somewhere, right?

BUT! I am becoming more and more “well-seasoned,” shall we say, and the time is approaching when I will not be physically able to buy a live tree, put it in a stand, put 1000 lights on it, stand on a ladder and carefully place all the décor.
Keep in mind, well-seasoned is a good thing and I hope I am getting there graciously.

BUT! There are times when I get frustrated. For instance, two days ago I went to the city Farmers Market to buy a pencil Christmas tree. Oh, you know….not more than 3 feet wide…tall and skinny. I was also looking for a tree that was not your normal Douglas fir because I like to be different and that is what everyone has this time of year.
So, the Farmers Market is the only place I thought I could find one. When I went I had a short amount of time for this task as many people were waiting on me for Thanksgiving lunch.
Of course, I had to go to every booth and lot and it was the last one that had something different. I was frustrated and in a hurry and when he held it up…it looked skinny. It was about 12’ tall and I had about 9’ to work with. It was different….not at all like any other tree there and actually, there were only about 10 of them.
He said that it was a “natural” tree (whatever that means). Natural is good, right? I try to eat organic, all natural food, so a natural tree must be just as good. He cut some of it off and said it was $100.00. Remember, people were waiting and it was the only one at the entire market that was different!

So, he tied it to the top of my car and off I went. I wondered if I had made a hasty decision. When I got home I knew from the look on my husband’s face that I might have gone too far this time. He asked me what kind of tree it was and I explained that it was a natural tree.
We went off to Thanksgiving lunch, but it was there in the back of my mind the whole time.

When we returned, put the tree in the stand; I knew I was in trouble. I had never seen a tree like this one before, ever. Not in a house anyway. I could not put it in my small space and had to move things around and squeeze them together to make it fit.
Then came the lights. On a ladder, I teetered and groaned as I was wrapping each branch up and down like suggested. The décor was even more difficult. The tree turns out to be the largest we have ever had and I was looking for small and skinny

Frustrated, I decided that after Christmas, I am going to find a Christmas tree service in the area and put a deposit on the year 2016 coming up and hiring them to do all of it for me next year. I can still have the real tree, but someone else can make it beautiful for me and I will not be so frustrated.
My neighbor came over and as I explained about the expensive Charlie Brown tree, she said……”it doesn’t look like everyone else’s tree….it looks like a tree in a magazine!” Well, that is all it took for me to fall in love with my very different tree! I am not traditional at all, but progressive and I am glad I have my beautiful magazine Christmas tree!

I know that there is a lesson or two in here….what do you think? Let me know what YOU think they are!
Roberta

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