jimdrewes.blog » tree http://blog.jimdrewes.com The thoughts of Jim Drewes - all in one place Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:39:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Goofiest Looking Christmas Tree http://blog.jimdrewes.com/2008/12/goofiest-looking-christmas-tree/ http://blog.jimdrewes.com/2008/12/goofiest-looking-christmas-tree/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:40:09 +0000 admin http://blog.jimdrewes.com/?p=12 Well, we stalked the wild pine last weekend, and we bagged ourselves one funny looking tree.  We have been cutting down our own Christmas trees for four or five years now, and my family has been taking part in this tradition for probably more than 15 years – and we still bring home trees that are too short, too tall, too fat, too full of spiders (that year was rough).  You would think that after all of those years of cutting down trees we would have a pretty good idea of what looks good in our house, but we don’t.  This year we had two criteria:

1.  Don’t get a tree that is too tall.  We may want to place it in our bay window.

2.  Trim up enough branches so J.R. can’t reach anything to pull the tree down.

Here is what we ended up with:

 

Goofy Tree

Goofy Tree

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