Thanksgiving and...

We said we weren't going to do this...put up a tree.  For Christmas we will be visiting friends and family and won't be at home.  For that reason and others we said we weren't going to put up a Christmas tree this year.  However, a Christmas tree fell from the skies, so we have one.  A 10 foot red pine fell over.  I swear we didn't "help" it fall.  We counted the rings, and it is 14 years old.  We could tell that four years ago the trunk had gotten a huge gouge.  (We have only owned our property for 3 years.)  It continued to grow but in weakened way.  The big winds that we all had a few weeks ago definitely sounded the death knell.  It finally fell during a snowstorm and there you have it...or really, we have it.  We decided to put it up on the screened porch where we could see it from a couple of windows.  Two strings of LED lights were found which only decorated the part that shows through the windows.  It definitely has a few "Charlie Brown" spots, but we are thrilled with it.  Still haven't decided if we are going to decorate it with ornaments.  Maybe I have some unbreakable ones that didn't get sold at the estate sale.