Fare thee well, christmas tree!

NeverMore1701

NeverMore1701

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We're going to be home for about a day and a half total for the next week and a half, so I figured it was time to dismantle the christmas tree. We're gonna burn it when the wind dies down.

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I'll admit to grinning like an idiot during the process. Got some funny looks from the neighbors, I guess people aren't used to armed, thrilled looking men attacking a Christmas tree with a machete :D
 
NeverMore1701 said:
I'll admit to grinning like an idiot during the process. Got some funny looks from the neighbors, I guess people aren't used to armed, thrilled looking men attacking a Christmas tree with a machete :D
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That's funny but I know what you mean. I am out in the yard and garden swinging away and folks who know me drive by and honk to say howdy. At church folks say stuff like "We saw you out chopping wood." They know if we have a chore day for someone with a need for brush or brambles cut back I'll be there in a heart beat ready to bust brush.
 
Ha, ha. I love it. When the kids were still home we had two traditions. #1. Go out, find the tree and bring it home. #2 After opening gifts on Christmas morning we would disassemble the tree and burn it. Usually before 10 AM. Then the wife would have room to start cooking in our small house and we would have a wonderful early dinner. Maybe that is three traditions? We all had a good time doing it, and the kids seem half way normal now that they are all grown, ha, ha.
 
We'll likely have some friends over when we get back for beer, burgers, and a nice little backyard blaze.
 
We had a fireplace when living in an Albuquerque apartment once. I thought it would be neat to burn the Christmas tree branches since we had never used the fireplace. I dragged the dried tree out on the balcony and chopped off the branches one-by-one and stuffed a bunch into the fireplace. Then I lit it...

The flames shooting out of the fireplace wouldn't have been so bad if I had opened the flue first. And to do that you have to reach up into the fireplace, so "better late than never" was out of the question.

I can't believe no one called the fire department. :o
 
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