I wasn't going to get a tree this year. Hello? Puppy wandering the house alone all day, tempting tree standing in doorless living room! But the asst. director of the museum pressured the garden club into giving me one of the leftovers from the party decorations. Unfortunately, it wasn't the cute little perfect three footer. No! She was very proud to tell me that she got them to leave the six foot tall one, with branches so thick that I can't even get close to the trunk. This despite the fact that I told her I wasn't planning on having a tree this year.

And I have to put it up and decorate it, because now the whole town is going to be driving by to say they saw it in my window.

I put it up and put the lights on tonight. It is kind of pretty. Guess I'll have to come up with some kind of barricade during the day.

I wonder if it will make it to Christmas?