A future Christmas tree--this one shows great potential.
When I was married we would cut down 40-foot tall balsams (always balsams--our parents taught us that that's the only kind of tree appropriate for a Christmas tree) and cut off the top 6 or so feet to use for our trees. A few times we took friends along to get trees, and we always cut one for J's parents. Is this tree cruelty, wasteful? Not really--balsams only live so long, then they rot and fall down. How may balsam bodies did we leave in the forest? A lot. Mostly we took trees from our land (where I now live) and had to drag them out to the hardtop, half a mile. This was before the road was plowed so sometimes the snow was really deep. What dedication to tradition!
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