I haven't decided yet.

Actually, this will be the first year in over 10 years of marriage that my wife and I will even have a tree! In past years, we've always been traveling somewhere for Christmas week, so we've never even bothered to mess with a tree.

But now that we have our "little man" we'll be staying in town, and my wife has all these brilliant ideas about how we need to establish "Christmas traditions" for our family and so forth.

Translated: My a$$ has been up on the roof every evening this week hanging frigging lights, and I suspect it will be either at Target picking out an artificial tree, or at a tree farm picking out a real tree, later this weekend! It's funny how all of her ideas involve her doing nothing, and me working my backside off.......

For what it's worth, we always had real trees back home in Minnesota, but I didn't really think about it too much since that was mom and dad's problem. All I had to do was wander into the living room, plant my a$$ on the couch, and admire it after mom and dad had worked their tails off to get it set-up and looking good -- ahhhhh the good old days!

 

nonsense....



You could than use one timer and feel safe and secure on your road trip that all those lights are coming on at one time. Merry Christmas. :santa:

 

I feel ya. I've finally got done w all the outside lights on my parents house, aunts house, and grandmas house last wkend. I live in an apt so my girlfriend did some inside decorating and all I had to do was get the tree in here.

 

Passionately against fake trees.... Untill we got one last year. :o

8 ft. Roosevelt fir, nice looking artificial tree. Easy to store, no more tromping around the wild (or tree farm, as it were), and relatively inexpensive.

 

Real-

my three younger brothers and i go and "thin out" our property every year- last year's tree was our biggest- a 25' Doug. Fir.

 

Thats awesome. One of my dreams is to have a house where I can fit a tree over 15' tall. I'm at 10' now and would love to go bigger.


BREW

 

HOLY GRIZWALDS!!!!!! No wonder the power in Jersey surges every night at 7pm



BREW

 

I'm not saying anything.

 

It is either a dream or a drunken stupor. Or maybe a drunken dream?

 

I'm with you LT...

 

Okay we are even i don't hang no stinkin lights outside not a one...

 

LT -- you can't HANDLE 10 inches......

 

right in the greatroom- 30' to the bottom of the ridge beam (a 19" diam. log)

 

When I did put up a tree it was always fake. Real trees cannot handle tight wrapping and heat that is put out from 3000 or so lights.

 

I prefer both real trees and real breasts......