On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:26:14 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-11-24 4:59 PM, wrote:
>
>>> Today I'll bring the Christmas tree up from the basement and set it up.
>>> Sad that we have to use an artificial tree, but DH is allergic to pine
>>> pollen.
>
>I could live with an artificial tree but my wife insists on a real one.
>She always wins that one.
>
>> Then get a fir tree or a spruce tree... Canadian hemlock makes an
>> attractiove Christmas tree too I doubt you will find any pine trees
>> sold as Christmas trees... pine trees are grown for lumber. they get
>> very large and as they grow they lose their lower branches so don't
>> have that conical Christmas tree shape.
>
>We picked up our tree today, a 7 foot Fraser fir.

We stopped buying cut trees, they are too messy and we see no point in
supporting the killing of a perfectly healthy tree. For the past ten
years we've planted a live tree. Some sixty years ago much of this
property was used as a Christmas tree farm so now there are many very
mature trees, however they produce saplings and whenever I see one
that looks particulary nice I transplant it to a more conspicuous
place. I've been moving Norway spruce and Colorado spruce to our cat
cemetary. We've been here 16 years and so far six cats have expired,
all in marked graves in a hedgerow. The hedgerows here are strewn
with rocks of various sizes, I pick out a small boulder for a
headstone and chisel their names and dates in it. The last one was
for Joiner, she's resting in a nice spot under a forest pansy She
still needs a headstone and I have one picked out but it's been way
too cold, that stone is frozen in ground. I was able to dig her grave
just before the ground froze... for now it's marked with a pile of
small stones. I bury the ferals too.