The Hall’s tree. It’s not decorated to compete with Tex, but it is twelve feet tall. Second highest tree I’ve ever mounted, but of better quality I think. The other one was 18 feet, but a short needle pine. This one is a spruce.
It's just beautiful! Negotiations with Mr. Tex led to an agreement this year that he would not be grumpy and I would be moderate in my choice of tree, so now I have tree envy. Mine is about 8 feet. Yours is beautifully huge and beautifully decorated.
We have always preferred to cut and decorate ours very late, which is traditional in some European cultures, but the cut-your-own place we go to wants a vacation with his children in Australia this year, so tomorrow is the last day. We cut off our own property or wild on a local farm for a few years, and one year my oldest was given a 25-foot tree three hours away which he determinedly drove home. We cut it to about 14, which was plenty.
We used to hang one-strand-at-time tinsel, but the bigger the tree, the more tedious that is. Many of the ornaments have a story, and Tracy and I are the only ones who know or care about those. We have too many, and put some aside for the inevitable story of a local family who gets flooded or burned out and loses all their ornaments.
This particular tree was planted too close to the outbuilding by the previous owner, and would have damaged it soon. I was sad to cut it at all, as I hate to kill a beautiful thing; but it will be long remembered, and makes for a glorious Yule.
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It's just beautiful! Negotiations with Mr. Tex led to an agreement this year that he would not be grumpy and I would be moderate in my choice of tree, so now I have tree envy. Mine is about 8 feet. Yours is beautifully huge and beautifully decorated.
We use a traditional tree: the same one every year. Sometimes we invite foreign students from the university to help us assemble and decorate it.
We have always preferred to cut and decorate ours very late, which is traditional in some European cultures, but the cut-your-own place we go to wants a vacation with his children in Australia this year, so tomorrow is the last day. We cut off our own property or wild on a local farm for a few years, and one year my oldest was given a 25-foot tree three hours away which he determinedly drove home. We cut it to about 14, which was plenty.
We used to hang one-strand-at-time tinsel, but the bigger the tree, the more tedious that is. Many of the ornaments have a story, and Tracy and I are the only ones who know or care about those. We have too many, and put some aside for the inevitable story of a local family who gets flooded or burned out and loses all their ornaments.
This particular tree was planted too close to the outbuilding by the previous owner, and would have damaged it soon. I was sad to cut it at all, as I hate to kill a beautiful thing; but it will be long remembered, and makes for a glorious Yule.
That is a pretty tree indeed.
It is a handsome tree, and it looks to be in a beautiful home, as well.
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