The plan was to ride out to Boone and/or Blowing Rock, NC on Saturday, December 13 to acquire our Christmas tree from the "farm". Throw the Cherokee into 4WD and head up the mountain.Change of plans.
Kimberly returned home late, late, late Friday evening the 12th from, GROAN, yet another political fundraiser. So late in fact that she slept until noon on Saturday. NOON, I say. Which in the grand scheme of things was OK as I had some live online Continuing Education programs to listen to that morning in order to renew my license. So when she woke up....headache. Come on!!! It's our only chance to nab a tree! Our only mutual weekend day off in eons! Headache.
Grumble frigging grumble.
So anyway, once the pain relievers do their job, and a shower is had, we run and do all of our Christmas shopping in one fell swoop. Done. Easy. Well, the shopping anyway that we supplemented our German souvenirs with. On the way home, in the dark of night, we stopped at the empty lot 0.5 mile away from home at the nearest corner to our house and nabbed a tree. Some A Christmas Story scene reminiscing occurred, but no haggling was in fact needed...although they did tie it to the Jeep for free.
We have a tree. A mountain tree without the trip to the mountains. Anti-climactic if you ask me, but what are you gonna do?
And speaking of German souvenirs, an authentic Steinbach nutcracker adorns one of the end tables. You may know of my unnatural fascination with nutcrackers, so a trip to Germany (the land of Christmas decor) to bring home a way cool nutcracker occurred. A Steinbach was almost purchased last year at a Washington, DC ballet performance of The Nutcracker, but the asking price was $500. I passed. Needless to say, one purchased this past September in Germany proper was much, much cheaper....if you ignore the flight and travel costs...
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