The tree saga continues

With just over a week until Christmas, it’s beginning to get ridiculous that we don’t have a tree. I given up all hopes of capturing the memories of last year, and just want something we can hang lights on in our living room. So today, with less than an hour of daylight, we decided to drive to the tree farm, pick one from the pre-cut selection, and call it a day.

Here’s how it all unfolded:

5:30pm Load everyone into car to drive 30 minutes to tree farm.

6:00pm After perusing our selection, decide to get the tree that can be planted in ground after Christmas. After all, there aren’t too many days until Christmas, right? Tree farm worker mumbles something about “250 pounds” which seems to go in one ear and out the other.

6:01pm We realize the tree won’t fit into mini van, and will dent the top of the car (something about 250 pounds). We drive home to get the Volvo.

6:40pm Get home. Tom goes back to tree farm in Volvo.

7:15pm Tom watches guy load tree into Volvo with mini forklift.

7:45pm Tom arrives home and realizes we don’t have a container large enough to hold ball of tree.

8:00pm After several brief attempts to lift tree 250 pound tree, we realize the tree looks best outside the house near the porch.

8:01pm We officially have our first outdoor Christmas tree.