It’s funny. We all know just exactly when Christmas is and what we need to do to get ready for it, so why is there so many commercials and advertisements in the newspaper for those ‘Last Minute Gifts’? Well, I guess it’s for people like me! I thought I had a pretty good handle on everything this year, but I had to laugh tonight when I was outside. And guess what I was doing outside? I was hanging Christmas lights. Yup, one week before Christmas and I’m still putting up Christmas lights. But to my defense, the lights that I was putting up were only in one spot and that was THE special tree. The reason that it’s called a special tree is because when you’re kids are little they get to go on a field trip to the tree nursery and come home with a tree. Well, that’s all good until one of two things happen. The first one is the most likely cause. That’s when it just plain dies. You try to water it to save it and well, it is destined to die. The second reason is because it’s so little that you mow it off with the riding lawn mower. Now you try to tell yourself that it was an accident, but go back to the first reason and the watering part. Now if I remember right, we did try to save both boys trees and something happened to both of them and we replaced them with bigger trees that would more than likely live. And guess what? They both did. So each Christmas we would take turns putting lights on first Kyle’s tree and the next year it would be William’s. But in the past couple of years Kyle’s tree had gotten way too tall and so I decided it was a great tradition to start sharing the special tree between the boys but only using Williams smaller tree. But this year I had the lights all bought, but it came down to the wire to get them on. Tonight was prefect weather for that! I grabbed a sweatshirt, some gloves, a step ladder and the lights. I was ready. The moon was full on Tuesday night, but it was still so bright tonight that even though I was in our back yard, I still didn’t need a flashlight. And honestly, it was also so warm out that I didn’t need gloves either. Score! But I did need a step ladder. The ground was a little uneven so I was a nervous about tipping it. (done that before) I also had trouble getting the lights up high enough. So after thinking awhile what to use, I went to the house and grabbed the broom. Up until now I had Little Kitty also on the step ladder with me and the dog was laying right beside it. But all of a sudden the dog went running to the barn and I thought how weird is that? But then I forgot that our dogs hate brooms. 🙂 And with using the ladder and hooking the lights on the broom, it really worked out well. Now I’m sure that the boys probably wouldn’t even care if this tree had lights on it or not. But I had it stuck in my head that it just really needed to get done, and I was glad that I did. I took a picture of the tree, but you can’t tell how tall it is or how nice it looks. It’s kind of funny because the yard looks so dark when I look at this picture.
Our outside Christmas tree
I also took a picture of how really bright the yard was with the moon tonight.
It was a very bright moon tonight on our farm