HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

Happy new year? Well I'm happy the holiday's are now over and life can get back to somewhat normal. So we took all the decorations down outside the past two day's, we usually don't do that until after the new year but being it was going to be ugly out the next few day's we decided to take them down while it was nice outside.

Now we get to pack everything away and put everything up in the attic... but it's not done yet, there are a lot of things in the house that need packed away and put in the attic as well as taking the Christmas tree down.

Talking about Christmas trees. We went with a fake tree many years ago, got tired of finding pine needles and icicles in the carpet, pretty much all year round, so we finally went with a fake tree. We had a nice fake tree years ago which was pretty easy to put up. All you needed to do was put the pole up, hand the branches from the top of the pole spread out the small limbs, put the top on and your done! That tree got ruined in a flood years ago being it was stored in the basement.

The last fake tree we got many years ago is a nice looking tree but a real pain in the butt putting up. There are approx. 50 branches that has to be put on the pole, starting at the bottom and working around the pole you have to insert branches starting with the longer ones and as you go up they get shorter. This is what the tree looks like when it's put together.

So the tree is old and it's a pain putting it up, time to get a new one? Well we thought about that but we didn't look to far into it when we seen what the prices of fake trees were! The newer trees look easy to set up, being it looked like the branches were on like hinges and you just folded them down. Maybe some year will get a new tree if the price is right and we like the tree we are interested in.