Christmas Trees

We cut our tree down every year at the same farm. And every year we cut it down the day after Thanksgiving. Tradition is important.

This we encountered some new things. First, the farm had completely re-done the main buildings. Now it resembles a little main street with games for kids and a chicken coop. The coop was in the shade so there are no pictures. Even though I know want chickens to live in my backyard.

We saw an albino Christmas Tree.

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Well alright, not truly albino. It didn’t have pink eyes or anything.

And there were prickly pears.

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And there was music everywhere. So Bert sang.

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Then he fell in love with a tree.

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Then he cut it down.

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Then we laughed at the ease with which the saw cut through the trunk this year.

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Bert had the tree down in less than a minute.

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And we walked it back to the office.

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Then they shook the bees out.

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And bagged it up.

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Hoisted it on top of Millie.

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And I got a Christmas Tree Rash.

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The End.

Visitants

It all started with Cadogan.

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He arrived on the scene a little late for a caterpillar. And in need of a shave.

Then Sabrina moved in with her elegant, yet fashion forward, wardrobe.

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I hear day glow green leg warmers are all the rage for fall.

Next thing you know, Pahniro shows up with prayer books in hand. I guess he felt that Sabrina’s priorities were out of whack.

_AEM6262All he needed as a starched white collar and a black tie. He makes me want to sing the Ichabod Crane song. Romulus wanted to shake his hand something fierce.

Linda here wasn’t impressed with the preaching or anything else but the red front door. But we all like things that mirror ourselves. That’s just fundamental.

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Which is why I liked the crape myrtle blossom in Bert’s hair.
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He did not.

I’m getting a lot of pictures of Bert making this face.

Wonder what’s going on there.

Bugs

I finally got around to weeding out the sweet potato beds. The weeds had been allowed to completely take over. Whenever I figure out who did this, man, am I going to get them.

While the weeds were causing me perfect angst, the bugs were more upset that I was removing their playground. With all the fuss and feather they kicked up, I felt like I was demolishing Disney World in front of a group of adorably pitiful orphaned five year olds. Look at this guy.

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Oh, Augustus. I’m sorry. Don’t look at me with those sad orphaned church mouse eyes.

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You either, Margery.

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Fine. I’ll leave the weeds in with the rosemary. But that’s as far as I go, buddy.

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