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Haven't even "shot" my turkey yet, so Xmas is not even on the front burner at this point.

Won't be having an actual, formal, indoor tree, in any case but I figure the two Giant Sequoias in the front yard are all I really need along those lines anyway!?!?

Beautiful tree & lovely warm room.

Beautiful tree & lovely warm room.

Thanks, Bruce.

It was a lot of work.  Dreaded it and drank 4 cups of coffee to get the courage to assemble it.  12 footer.

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I actually used to help decorate too much… my grandparents and aunt who still lived with them would put up a huge drive-thru display on their farm and would get 300-500 cars driving through a night. They collected donations and gave $15-20k to the local ambulance every year, actually earned enough to buy a new ambulance. It would take almost 3 months to set up and I was out their many days driving t-posts, heavy lifting and putting lights on the roofs that they didn’t want to go on. They were going to be on one of those tv shows but grandpa got cancer and passed in September of ‘14, we put the lights up one more winter to show off his final projects and had a night of fireworks out there. The lights are now on display in a park in Iowa after they donated them to a town and my aunt and grandma still travel
down there to help keep things going. Putting up a tree is about enough for me any more 😂

I do have my other grandpas Lionel set and I would like to put that around the tree this year so my kids (his great grandkids) can enjoy it with him. I will be sure to post a picture, but it won’t be till after thanksgiving 😆

The big singing face at 2:30 was his final big project. He was still climbing a ladder and putting lights on the galvanized cattle shed on the cars right hand side when he was very sick and looked about 90 pounds

I’ll have to find the picture from the daylight of the extension cords to power the trees. They filled the entire box of a Colorado pickup with cords from Menards one night and got a thank you letter in the mail for their purchase 😂 I think my aunt spent like 4 or 5 grand on extension cords that night 😂

Grandpa wouldn’t take a dime from anyone driving through, everything donated went to the local ambulance.

I usually put up at least two trees. This year just the one that I left up since last year, minus the
lights and ornaments. They're on it now with the pickle.


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