Tree Trimming?

With the tree carcass secured and upright in our home, my wife told me that it was time to begin trimming it. She went into the basement so I took it upon myself to go into the shed and grab the pruning shears. Imagine my surprise (and discomfort when I was bludgeoned with a rubber tote bin and told to stop being an idiot. Apparently trim means decorate, who knew?

I grabbed some strings of lights to bind it up, and we were looking at a well illuminated tree. Twinkling with LED goodness. I wasn't entirely trusting of the green beast and thought it good to sent in a scout so we armed my daughter with a fistful of stuffed bear decorations to soothe the tree a bit. Who doesn't like teddy bears. Since it was close to bedtime she hung all the bears and declared that it was bedtime. She's got her Daddy's drive to work, I'm so proud. Her final product was this. I thought it looked pretty, but the wife said that we couldn't leave it like that so we compromised.

We left the daughter's teddy bears clustered at the bottom and proceeded to festoon the tree with the remaining decorations. Garland, decorations and the my entirely un-festive Boba-Fett (who I think is the coolest ever) were hanging on the tree resulting in a pretty shiny final product. With the tree jammed full of decorations and the house all decorated up we began packing up. Upon opening the containers the ornaments dwell in during the off season we came to the realization that they were still full. It is a little known fact that ornaments stored in close proximity with little or no protection will multiply like rabbits. When you think about it, they sit there for a year so you have to pass the time somehow so I can't blame them. It's entirely my fault for packing them up in a hurry. My Mom used to have hers all individually wrapped up to protect them and I thought that meant to keep them from breaking. Little did I understand the lurid truth behind all that wrapping. This year they all get packed up separately, except for Boba Fett and the teddy bears. They will breed into an army of super ornament bounty hunters who can be contracted to get the tree for me next year.

Remember folks have your ornaments spayed or neutered!