Wisdom Brings Success

I did it!!  I went out and bought a REAL Christmas tree this year.  Today, as a matter of fact.  To say that it was “slim pickens” is rather an understatement.  Here I thought that I was getting a tree fairly early, but I actually had trouble finding one!  Have I mentioned before that I live in a very rural part of Illinois?  Most people around here probably go out in the woods and chop down a tree.  But me, I’m used to Chicago, where you can go out on Christmas Eve and find anything you want!  But I digress…so the tree that I found, and bought, is a little skimpy on one side.  I hate to use the word bald, but I did have to use the branches at the bottom of the tree that I cut off , to fill in one side of the tree.  I figure I can just spray paint them green when they start to turn brown.  Anyway, the whole point of this is…I discovered that if you put on a lot, and I mean a lot, of lights you can kind of fill in the holes!  At first I thought I was just crazy, but by the time I finished putting the lights on, it looked amazing.  I’d forgotten how beautiful a slightly bent, slightly balding Christmas tree can look.  Now, if I can just remember to keep adding water…

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