{"id":3305,"date":"2010-12-11T18:06:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2010-12-11T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T01:06:41","slug":"first-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/first-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"First Christmas tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"

… in at least 11 years. First time I’ve had room for one.<\/p>\n

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I loved getting out my old ornaments. I’d forgotten they had a theme: animals and birds. You can tell how long ago I got many of them; an embarrassing number of the animals are … ulp … unicorns. <\/p>\n

I cut the tree this morning at a nearby farm. My first noble fir! Most places I’ve lived noble firs have been too pricey to think about. Here, they’re no more than the scruffy Doug-firs (people in the Northwest are on a nickname basis with their conifers, you know) that have been drying out over at the Boy Scouts’ lot since Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Big storm moving in. Wonderful to sit here with a fire roaring, lights glowing, and a cup of creamy coffee for sipping.<\/p>\n

Hope you’re having as good a weekend as I am.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, here’s a version of the tree I computer-artified for ya:<\/p>\n

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Not great art, but lots of fun playing around with The GIMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… in at least 11 years. First time I’ve had room for one. I loved getting out my old ornaments. I’d forgotten they had a theme: animals and birds. You can tell how long ago I got many of them; an embarrassing number of the animals are … ulp … unicorns. I cut the tree this morning at a nearby farm. My first noble fir! Most places I’ve lived noble firs have been too pricey to think about. Here, they’re no more than the scruffy Doug-firs (people in the Northwest are on a nickname basis with their conifers, you know)…<\/p>\n

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