First off....if anyone knows WHY some of my friggin photos are posting sideways and HOW I can fix that , it would be much appreciated!!!! Since Blogger's editing page changed I've had tons of trouble and is one reason I rarely post!!!! UPDATE: Here is one possible answer: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=3dadabf526cdd529&hl=en
Ok, back to fun. Here is our 2010 tree:
For Christmas 2009, we bought our very first LIVE tree. It was gorgeous and glorious and OUTRAGEOUSLY priced. I promised my husband that to get our money's worth, I would SOMEHOW recycle it to get 2 Christmases out of the thang. And that I did! After we un-decorated it, I hung it from our clothes line outside. There it stayed all year long-through all kinds of weather. We hung some peanut butter/birdseed pine cones in it last summer and the birdies really dug it! After Thanksgiving, when it was time to trim the tree I -not so simply,but it can be done!!!- did the following:
Donned a pair of gloves and pulled ALL those niggling needles off:
Pruned off half the branches:
Spray painted it green. If you're not into that, nix the paint and you can later burn the tree in your wood stove or what ev:
Threw on some tinsel and lights and VOILA!!!!! The perfect ornament hanger!
We are now in the process of un-decorating it for the last time-Epiphany has passed- and I will then launch our tree into the woods of our back yard and return it to the earth. Of course, I'm regretting painting it-there really was no need.
