O Tenenbaum

Tonight, after work, Roger and I drove to Sharon, VT to cut down our Christmas tree! This was the first time doing this for us. One of Roger's co-workers owns a Christmas tree farm and invited friends to come over, choose a tree, and saw it down.

At first I was a little skeptical, but Roger was right - it was a lot of fun! Although it was dark out, it was kind of neat going out in the night to pick it out. We followed Roger's co-worker to the farm and parked our cars so the headlights shone into the forest, spotlighting just a few of the rows and rows of trees. (Brenda said they have about 400 trees.) We walked around for a while, mindful of the stumps of trees that had already been chosen. We chose a nice bushy specimen, about seven feet tall and Roger, handling the saw himself, cut it down in a few minutes. Just like that!

After we brought it home, we spent a few minutes trying to make it sit straight in the stand. When we were finally satisified - it wasn't leaning too much one way - we dressed it with our simple white lights and our red, silver, and gold ball ornaments. The white lights are very bright and pretty, like snow. I put up what random ornaments we collected last year: a few wooden pieces, including a small covered bridge, a sled, and a reindeer; a glass snowflake, and a beautiful, big, burgunday ball ornament that was a gift from one of my co-workers.

We'll have pictures soon - once we get more presents under the tree.

And we're definitely going back to the farm during the daytime, just to see all the trees!