If you know me in person you might be aware of the fact that I love the Christmas season and all the traditions that come with it. One of these said traditions is to set up our Christmas tree on the weekend right after Thanksgiving. Now, this may not be a problem for most people...however, we wanted to get a 'balled' tree (i.e. one with roots so that we can plant it later). We went to the local tree farm and selected a sweet tree and brought it home with us on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
We wrested the thing into the house (that's not an easy task my friends...that sucker was heavy!) and decorated it that same day. All was fine and dandy. Fast forward to a week later: needles began falling off. We didn't think very much of it as we suspected the heating vent by the tree was causing the bottom to get dry. Soon, however, more needles were falling off. And not just when we watered the thing! You could be sitting on the couch minding your own business and plink, plink, plink could be heard. Still we thought it could wait it out till Christmas.
Ummm...wrong! Soon we noticed that it wasn't just the bottom needles getting dried out. And? The kicker? There was mold starting to grow on the ball. Alright tree, it's time for you to move back outside. However, we had a problem seeing that it wasn't even Christmas yet! My school came to the rescue because pine trees were used in our Night Tree celebration and, lo and behold, there were extras for the taking. So K and I muscled our balled tree out the door and quickly replaced it was a cut tree. And that is how we had two trees in the same location during one Christmas season!
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