Hearing more Christmas music and seeing more houses decked out in Christmas lights each night is starting to get me feeling festive. I will likely have to grab some eggnog this weekend and illuminate our house for Christmas.
We usually wait until the week before the big day to put our Christmas tree inside the house. Now if you follow the Canadian Christmas Tree Growers Association, they have declared the first Saturday in December National Christmas Tree Day in Canada. The US says that tomorrow, December 8 is National Christmas Tree Day. That seems a bit more reasonable and this weekend I am sure there will be a tonne of festive bushes travelling to their holiday home.
When you do get the tree and start decorating, how can you make it perfect? I have the formula to give you a perfect end result.
If you are a perfectionist, there is a mathematical formula that students at Sheffield University in the UK say will give you holiday perfection.
As I think back, there was no real formula for our perfect tree. I remember one of the first years I had a tree on my own, we had popcorn and cranberry tinsel, that was pretty cool. I remember one year Dad decided we should have a pine tree, that was a decorating challenge compared to the fir.
The old fashioned lights with heat reflectors and tinsel icicles always looked great. Then there was the year of the almost perfect tree, but it was missing a limb so we drilled the trunk and inserted a branch and no one ever knew.
If you are thinking the “perfect tree” is not for you, here are some other interesting options offered up by the internet.
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I saw the highest tree in Lunenburg County last night on my way out of Bridgewater. You have to look up to enjoy it! Ryan McCarthy, Tony Corkum and Sebastian Aucoin decided to get a tree high enough for Santa to enjoy before he lands the sleigh. Our friendly neighborhood crane operator is all decked out for Christmas and he sent us a few pictures. Talk about your extreme holiday decorating, haha.