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My father was very patient with me as I picked out our tree every year. From North Shore to South Shore, from Nassau to Suffolk..........he's keep driving until I found the perfect tree. It had to be balsam, it had to be wide... the wider the better, no plantation sheared for me.
Once I started driving, I literally headed for the hills. Winklestern's (I think that was the name) Christmas Tree Farm upstate and I'd cut down the perfect tree.
I just about died my first Christmas in southern California. NO BALSAM! Douglas fir or Noble fir those were the fir choices. ARGH!!!
I can't get as wide of a tree as I like anymore Despite the living room being fairly large, there are built-in's, fireplace and baseboard rads which limit me to one section of interior wall.
But I endeavor to find the perfect tree to fill the spot.
When I look back at the pictures of the trees I had as a kid, again the balsam fir, some of them were down right ugly compared to the trees you get today. In the past 20 years or so, unless you do a u cut the trees are more pyramidal in shape. The u cut farm owner, in I think it was Cutchogue, told me that they too are grooming their trees as they grow, that was what the people wanted. My sister and I laugh looking at the trees with branches shooting out from here and there from top to bottom. We loved those huge trees, so full, and decorated so lovingly. Great memories.
They are "Holiday" lights. You are not allowed to call them "Christmas" lights anymore.
Don't worry I wont call the PC Police on anybody this time, just don't let it happen again.
I am Scrooge. I hold off as long as possible for any "holiday" decorating, and can't get the stuff down, boxed, and back in the closet fast enough. You have no idea the daunting task of constantly following behind to shut the lights off. Everyone gets angry but they aren't paying the damn electric bill!
Electricity doesn't grow on trees.
Nothing outside.
When do you put your tree up? Second weekend of December
When do you take your tree down? Super Bowl Sunday.
Fake tree, of course.
It's gotten later and later as the Super Bowl has moved from Jan to Feb. Husband doesn't want to take tree down sooner. We now have to dust the ornaments.
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