Photos ~ The tree and lights on the house

Yesterday was the day to get a little holiday spirit started around the house. We drug all the storage bins from the attic and extracted what we needed. Next we hunted for the perfect tree at the nearby Local Boys lot. We wanted a noble but were confronted with signs reading "Extra Fancy Noble", "Super Extra Fancy Noble", and, get this, "Super Extra Fancy Mountain Noble" which, in short, meant to me "Expensive", "Way Expensive", and "For this much this tree better sing a song and light itself up!" We snagged a skinny fancy noble and the guys running the place had it prepped and on the car before you could say "really ugly blue flocked tree" which was on my mind because they had a selection of really ugly irridescent blue flocked trees. This along with the normally white flocked trees with a couple pink. One of the guys working even said they do other colors but refused someone's request for a black tree. I guess whoever requested to goth theme will instead be getting a bright red one. It's a real shame vendors such as this aren't support the growing goth holiday community in this area. Maybe there's a nitch market to be had in goth-themed, black flocked Christmas trees. Hmm...

Where do you buy your tree? From a lot? At a farm? Rough it old skool and cut your own in the national park? Does it come in a box?

Anyway, pics of the decorated tree will follow soon but I did manage to get out and hang all the lights on the house. It's the same candy cane theme as last year but it just worked so darn well. I figure we'll give it up when enough lights don't work that we're forced to buy more.

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12/4/2006 @ 7:19am

Angela & I always buy ours at the same lot located on E. 72nd & Mckinnnley. We have been going there for about 7-years now and alway find the right tree. It started out as a Father-Son venture and now it's only the Son that runs it along with a few helpers. Never left there disappointed yet.

Steve

by Steve

12/4/2006 @ 7:41am

Last year, I bought myself a fake tree at Rite-Aid. Having once dated an over fire-conscious ex-fireman, plus having a full-time job and social calendar that keeps me out of the house for most of the day, I find that not worrying about the flammable needles of a real tree lets me rest my mind during the day.

Although, when I wake up to the lit-up tree in the mornings, I tend to sigh and say a silent prayer that my fake tree didn't burst into flames overnight as well. Stinkin' ex-boyfriend that used to be a fireman...

by Mandy

12/4/2006 @ 7:42am

Oh, and one more thing... I swear, but I haven't seen a COLORED tree anywhere in central Oregon. Weird.

by Mandy

12/4/2006 @ 10:06am

Dang! I'd buy a black flocked tree! It would go great with my Jack Skellington lights and Nightmare Before Christmas ornaments. Not to mention my blacklight light strands and of course the giant spiders all over my tree. :)

by Jeff

12/4/2006 @ 10:07am

Yea, must be a city kinda' thing. The guys working at the place said he thinks those colored flocked trees are awful but, hey, people buy 'em. I didn't check the prices but a 2 or 3 foot tall white flocked tree was $50-something. Don't even want to know about the full-sized colored ones. Plus, they pretty much smelled like they could spontaneously combust with all the fumes coming off of 'em.

by KevinFreitas

12/4/2006 @ 3:09pm

Well...your goth friends just need to move to Scotland! Because there is not just one, but TWO black trees on offer. Mind you, they are of the fake variety, but you can purchase a lovely Black Ash Tree http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2695963.htm or you can go really upmarket and get the very cool Black Fibre Optic Tree http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2696924.htm .
But the tree you have to have, but NEVER knew you wanted, is this one: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0250324.htm made entirely of pink feathers...and it revolves of course!

'Tis the season!

by Toni

12/4/2006 @ 9:46pm

That fibre optic tree has a bit of nerd cache, but good lord is that pink one a monstrosity! It looks like someone scalped a showgirl in Vegas. Throw in some marquee lights and you've got a cracking, eye-blistering holiday.

by Matt