Today is visit the Christmas Treelot day. We gotta have a real Christmas Tree, even if it is a pitiful thing. But this is not a pitiful thing, it is a very nice little Christmas Tree. Maybe it's not a Christmas Tree yet. Does it have to be decorated to be a bona-fide Christmas Tree ? Well, that will come later. We used to put up our Christmas Tree much closer to Christmas. But it got real hard to find one then. I guess so many folks put them up on Thanksgiving now that the Christmas Tree Seller People get tired of it all and close up the Christmas Tree Lot a week before Christmas. Some years ago on a dark and stormy night, several days before Christmas, we went to get one. When we got there, all the lights were out and the people were gone. But a lot of trees were still there, piled up and ready to take that last ride. I must confess, we took one, but we did leave the money in their truck. But that broke us from waiting 'till the last day.
In recent years, they've got me broken down. Now we put the thing up a week early. I guess it's OK. We do still keep it up into January. What gets to me though, is the day after Christmas when I see them taken down and thrown on the curb for the trash. (Being in the trash business I notice these things.) I think people start so soon that by the time Christmas finally gets here, they are already tired of it. Seems like a shame to me.
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Same thing happens here. People go all tree crazy the day after Thanksgiving. By the end of the first week of December, a lot of red "sold" tags are hanging from trees.
The tree tents here stay open till the last tree is sold. As soon as all the trees are sold and removed, the tree tents turn into fireworks tents.
Unsold trees are removed once the market for trees cools off and the market for fireworks increases.
The day after Christmas there are some trees on the curb. Usually people who have real trees and did not care for them (not watering them) are the first to toss. By then the trees are not so green and loosing needles. But this is Cuba Town, and in the hispanic culture there is something called "Three Kings Day" - which marks the end of Christmas. Some people keep the trees till a week or so after New Years Day.
I read that most all the trees are cut at the same time and so, even if you want to actually put the tree up closer to the holiday, it's best to get the tree home from the lot and in some water as soon as you can, otherwise, they sit and dry out horribly on the lot waiting mournfully for you to home and take them home....
May be bunk, but it made sense to me.
We went Monday AM to get a nice cedar tree (Doug's family always got that kinda tree, or chopped one down off their farm land, but they are hard to come by, these days, as they are less cosmetically please, most times. They also present a change to decorate, as in "OUCH!!") from our usual lot, but no one was there to take our money, guess it was to early in the day or something. So our poor tree is drying out on the lot right now.... but it's raining, so I guess that will help some. We might make it out to pick it up tonight.
I like that cedar smell, but the prickly is no fun. The year we were married, we went out in the woods and cut a scraggily little pine tree. We were broke of course.
I like that cedar smell, but the prickly is no fun. The year we were married, we went out in the woods and cut a scraggily little pine tree. We were broke of course.
Rats. Now I gotta figger out how to get rid of this dubble thingie here.
yeah, they do smell great. they have a lacey transparent look that the others don't have, too. You have to decorate them carefully because you can see through them. :) It's different, but neat.
It was just the other day I was remembering decorating the tree in the evening to Tiawana Christmas!! And bleeping the word KISS in that Beach Boys song.
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