2007
it’s christmas in the playhouse
maura @ 9:11 pm
We got our tree a little early this year. Typically we wait until closer to xmas, because the tradition of my family is to decorate the tree on xmas eve and leave it up for ages afterwards. Once it was up ’til Easter, no lie! Of course, Easter was early that year. Still, it was regularly up until Valentine’s Day, and quite crunchy + brown by then, too. Mmmm, crunchy tree.
(That never happens now that I’m a grownup, because we like to take the tree to Mulchfest the weekend after New Year’s so we can watch the trees get fed into the ginormous chipper + drink hot chocolate. Good times!)
ANYway, so we got our tree last weekend. It’s a bit bigger than we usually get, too, pretty chubby and about 7 feet tall. Thanks to last month’s Home Improvement Fest there’s even room for it in the living room.
It’s a beautiful tree, chubby + tall as it is, but MAN is it dropping the pine needles! We water it and water it and water it and it still drops needles. It doesn’t seem to be any worse for the loss, so I’m not that concerned with it lasting ’til xmas day. But I’m tired of sweeping up needles, like some sort of xmas needle-Cinderella. Just call me Needlerella!
4 comments on “it’s christmas in the playhouse”
I can’t believe I never told you that story! I thought it was such a ham story that I had to search my own archives to be sure I hadn’t said it last year or earlier. :)
I think we’ll decorate it this weekend, Gus is chomping at the bit to get with it!
The needle dropping is an epidemic this year, thanks to that nifty southern drought. Of course, we always go fake anyway–my tree allergies are a bane but also an excuse to not have to vacuum needles!
Yeah, every year I flirt with going fake, esp. with my ever-increasing crunchiness. Though we do take it to get mulched so it’s not as bad as it could be. Still, the needles, oy.
I am SO glad to hear about this! My folks always kept the tree up indefinitely. I would always get embarrassed if it was still up for my b-day party in February.
When I got older MJ would take it down over MLK Day.
Santa decorated our tree (and still does, I guess), but he never lifted a finger to take it all down!