O Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree

How lovely are your branches :)

After a yummy Mexican feast, we bundled up and trekked to Walmart to look for a tree. None to be found. . . well, none worth $45 - (last year, if I remember correctly, we found ours for $20). We grabbed some lights and cookie baking essentials and and then ran over to Lowes to look at their selection. I had to laugh because, the way that they had all the trees laid out reminded me of cows tethered in a line at the county fair.
We lifted, twisted, twirled, spread branches, measured, hemmed and hawed & found one that we thought would do the trick. I still don't think that it should have been so expensive - after all, we got one that sort of had a 'flat backside' and some 'bald spots'. But we are all about taking ugly things and making them pretty :)
While we were buying it, a middle-aged couple stood behind us with their two daughters - one was a pre-teeny bopper and the other was about 7. They were making quite a ruckus & the dad caught my eye and said "do you want some kids?" The mom chimed right in (before intervening in a spit-fest the two were having) "they make good slaves". Haven and I 'ha ha'd' and then rapidly walked back to the car, tree in tow. -No siree sir- we would prefer the smaller size :)