podunklander

lol actually, the photo and the 'song' are from XMas of 2003...my 1st XMas living back in the sticks since I left my small hometown in Massachusetts.

Everywhere I've lived since, the Town has picked up XMas trees. Not this town. I had dragged that tree to the curb...where it stayed for a couple of weeks until it was clear that it wasn't going to be picked up.

It came in handy out on the curb though because when a friend was coming to visit here for the 1st time (people always miss my driveway) I told her to just look for the 'Old Christmas Tree'.

I called my landlord and he said I'd have to bring it to the dump...which he offered to do. Meanwhile, I had to drag the tree back over to the house and I leaned it on the grill. The grill - kind of came with the house from the previous tenant. I told my landlord that I never intended to use it and asked him to bring it to the dump. He's decided to keep it and it's still in the same spot and now serves as a beehive.

XMas tree disposal had never been anything I had to give much thought to in earlier years. While growing up - I really don't recall how our trees were disposed of. Most of those years we burned our own trash in the back yard...so I would guess that it got chopped up and was burned.

After having had a real tree throughout the years - 2003 was the last. It was the prettiest tree too! Now I have one of those white, metal pre-lit trees that are meant to be for the outdoors. We really like it. And I don't have to water it of course and don't have to sing to it either!