Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for December 22, 2019

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Plan B would have to trim off some of the lower branches so you can trim off some of the trunk.

That was my Dad, Mom wanted a table top tree, every year, Dad always got the biggest tree he could find! Then my Mom would put the tinsel on one strand at a time. And we’d netter not touch the tree!

OK if we can’t cut a hole in the ceiling we’ll cut a hole in the floor. In the new year we’ll but extra stairs to the basement

Love the proofreading you guys do before you hit the Comment button.

Merry Christmas

How did Val get so tall?

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we did this with a live tree one year, that had its root ball and we planned to plant in the yard. Yes, the top had to be bent to fit indoors. (by the way, we watered the root ball by putting a dozen ice-cubes on it each day. the ice melted and kept the roots moist).

I like the fact that HE thought Val would let them cut a hole in the ceiling for the Christmas tree, and that Val guessed it was Plan A.

Don’t raise the bridge; lower the water!

Okay Phil, start from bottom by how much too tall, and trim.

You do what my dad announced we were going to do: you cut off the top and set it up on the roof so that people driving by will see a tree that looks like it grew right through the house.

Check that tree for squirrels…

A neighbor of ours had a house with the up stairs bedroom window directly over the living room window. One year, he bought a tree that was tall enough for the two rooms, cut it in half, put one piece in each room, and decorated both parts the same. It looked like he had put a hole in the floor, causing a lot of people to stop and ask. What he didn’t consider was the living room had wood flooring, while the bedroom had long shag white carpet. They pulled needles out of that carpet for a long time.

A favorite Christmas memory: Wife and daughter picked out a tree that seemed clearly too big, but they insisted they’d measured it. After wrestling it in the house, it was clearly too big for our 9 ft ceiling. The base was also too wide for the stand.

Time to get the chainsaw out into the living room and trim the limbs off the bottom, slice off the bottom, and then trim around the base enough to get it in the stand. Trimmed some off the top, too, in order to finally get it to fit.

Nothing says Christmas like running your chainsaw in the living room.

Cut off the bottom and don’t pull that stunt again.

Some years ago there was a business here with an apartment over the store. They apparently cut a huge tree into thirds, put the base in the business window, the middle part in the apartment window right over the base, and the top on the roof. It looked like one enormous tree going right up through the roof.

I love the hopeful look on Phil’s face.

Plan B – remove some of the trunk of the tree?

Merry Christmas!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWoKi5x3lw

Merry Christmas ho hoho!

There IS no Plan B! ;))

Did he study from Tim Taylor or did Tim Taylor study from him?