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- last entry / next entry - 2005-12-06 | 8:57 a.m.
The Great Tree Debacle I know you're curious--where have I been? Well, I was in a mortal fight of Mothra-sized proportions. With a 7-foot white pine.
Got the tree home with a car-friend's help, who helped me jam the tree stump into my tree stand after sawing off 4 corners of the oversized trunk to get it to fit. A severe vertical issue is quickly apparent. She takes off to work on her own tree, and I figure the vertical wobble will be taken care of once I cut off the netting. Well, not so much. But now there's more tree between me and the trunk and stand... I keep trying to get it to stop flopping over and there's nothing I can do. After a quick consultation with Dad which tells me NOTHING I want to hear, I put on crappy clothes and get ready for some serious surgery. I'm supposed to take off the bottom layer of branches to get the stump flush with the bottom of the stand (which is currently is not) and there's a problem with this solution--I've already poured water into the stand for the tree so the sap won't harden. So now I have a 7-foot pine tree that needs to be removed from the tree stand without spilling a quart of water on my hard-wood floor. You can see where this is going, right? The Marx Brothers could take some lessons from the next 40 minutes of my evening. 1. Try to remove tree from stand by lifting it straight up. Belately remember that we had to wedge it onto the trunk the first time. That was my evening. I'm entirely full of the holiday spirit now, I assure you. - last entry / next entry - |
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