From Forest to Lit Up

Carrying the tree home - it was snowing

Wednesday evening Stuey, Nora and I put up the Christmas tree.  We picked out a tree, cut it down and carried it home.  It was snowing pretty hard at the time.  Shortly thereafter it started to rain and has not stopped since.  Talk about good timing!

The hardest part about putting up the tree is getting it into that darn tree stand. This seems to be an annual struggle.  I was venting some un Christmas like imprecations while squatting in the wet snow and trying to get the tree into the stand.  I'd think I had it and then the whole trunk would shift and the tree would fall over.  Meanwhile the kids were sledding in the dark oblivious to my trials and tribulations.

We finally got the tree up and un leaning in the living room.  Wow is our tree WIDE this year!  Not very tall but it has exceptionally long branches.  We covered her in lights and ate dinner.

The next morning after breakfast all on her own Nora started to decorate the tree.  Stuey and I joined her and soon, just like that and remarkably enough with no fights, we had the tree and the whole living room decorated.

At one point Nora pulled the yearly decorated ornament from 2003 and read, 'We miss you Katie Dog'.  I checked the bell shaped-ornament and on the other side among other things it welcomed the new dog 'Roxy'.  Both dogs are now long gone but will never be forgotten.  It seems 2003 was a busy year - A year of transition.  A year long gone.

Decorations complete, Nora, Stuey and I turned out all the overhead lights and took in the glow of the lit up tree and house decorations.   The house glowed with Christmas.   Patrick

Up and inside the house

Lights on

On go the ornaments

All done

Oh Christmas Tree!