Choosing a Christmas tree sounds like a simple exercise, but sometimes it is not.
First there is the decision about whether to have an artificial tree or a real tree. For me there is no contest. The real tree wins hands down. Yes, I know they drop pine needles and you have to get rid of the dead tree at the end of the Christmas period, but it is worth it for that smell of Christmas that comes in with the pine.
Since we are in summer in Australia there’s no point buying a tree too early, even though the shops have been selling them for weeks. Otherwise they’d be dead come Christmas Day. So yesterday we went to get our tree.
The first place we went to which were trees being sold from a house, the trees were too expensive. So went back to the nursery where we have bought our trees the last couple of years.
They only had about four or five and none of them were suitable. They all l were tired looking and starting to go brown as though they had been there too long. I found out they had more coming in a hour and a half.
It wasn’t ideal but Mick agreed it as the better option to come back. So we went home. He mowed lawn. I did work on blogs and books reviews and then we went back in the afternoon.
A better selection of trees awaited us. I was busy looking at the shape of each tree. This meant Mick had to hold them while I inspected them. I narrowed it down to two.
‘We need to make sure the trunk is absolutely straight,’ Mick said. Because we screw the Christmas tree stand into the tree, the trunk must be straight. Mick lifted the trees up and inspected their trunks.
Eventually we decided on one and brought it home. It just about touches the ceiling. And now the house smells like Christmas.
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