Christmas meets Alaska

[laylalawlor]

I’ve never been all that much of a holiday person, and I haven’t decorated the house for Christmas (or anything else, really) since we bought this place in 2004. But I’m in my mid-30s, without children, and I’m starting to kind of miss Christmas. I enjoyed last Christmas at my brother’s place - they have an 8-year-old, and my sister-in-law really

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[ravenmoonart]

Awwww! I *love* funky black spruce xmas trees! If our property had a spare spruce anywhere I'd do the same...unfortunately we are in cottonwood country here, and the very few spruce that we have are coddled and loved. When we buy a tree each year, I always pick the skinniest, sparsest, funkiest one, because those look so much more "natural" to my Alaskan sensibilities.

[laylalawlor]

I have to admit that I am fond of them myself. :D I mean, I could just go out and buy a symmetrical tree, with branches. But where's the fun in that?

[pamola]

We are entering year three of cutting cedars off our lot to use as scraggly Christmas trees. When the boy was six or so he had a cedar that he watered and called his Christmas tree. The first year we cut one its trunk and had a fine Charlie Brown tree. Next Christmas we topped a tree from our neighbor's lot and had a nicer tree. This year its back to our lot where I have a cedar that needs to make way for a grape arbor. I just use a hand saw to cut them down.

[laylalawlor]

I think it makes a much more fun and interesting experience than having a storebought tree! Even if the overall effect is, at times, somewhat less aesthetically pleasing. *g*

[petecas]

My family tends to use a fresh cut tree as "a good place to start from". We cut some extra branches and drill holes in the trunk, then Frankenstein together something poofy-er.

[laylalawlor]

That is a good idea! :D

One year Orion & I, too lazy to procure an actual tree, tried to make a frankentree out of branches. It didn't end well. But starting with an actual trunk would probably have helped.

[jana_denardo]

now that's the way to get a Proper (sort of) tree

[laylalawlor]

"Sort of" is the key word here. :D