O Christmas Tree 2019

We got our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving, the earliest I've ever gotten a tree in my entire life.  I'm glad that we went the day that we did because the tree farm we've gone to the last few years was closed by this weekend!  This year, we were able to find a tree pretty quickly - we narrowed it down to two different trees and Lee vetoed the larger tree because it was enormous and because it had a crooked trunk, so he was pretty certain it would fall over.  We brought the tree home, put it in the stand and strung the lights and then decided to let it settle for a day before we hung the ornaments.   At some point during the night, the tree fell over (oh the irony!) - which hasn't happened since we invested in an industrial tree stand from Sweden more than 16 years ago.  Lee. Was. So. Mad.  We got the tree upright and it's ratcheted to the sliders in the sunroom, holding steady for a week now.  It's smaller than usual, but has already caused more than it's fair share of trouble..