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XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:08 pmby capt1972
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Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:33 pmby flight control
This reminds me of the day I realized I had become just like my father.
Our first Christmas in this house, I suggested we go to my parent's property and cut down a tree. So we bundled up our two year old, I grabbed my .22 (in case we ran into a rabbit or grouse)and my axe and off we went. After an hour or so in the woods, we agreed on a tree and with one swift blow from my axe, I chopped down the mighty fir. After we got it home and on the tree stand, we both realized it was the ugliest Charlie Brown looking tree we'd ever seen. She told me to throw it out and go buy a "real tree". Ha! I told her to leave the tree alone, I'll be right back. I came back an hour later with an armfull of fir boughs, drilled a bunch of holes in the tree and stuck the branches in the holes. Voila! Then it dawned on me. This is exactly the kind of shit my dad used to do!
Every year, we'd get a tree off that property, every year my mom would complain about it, and every time, my dad would fix it. Twenty years later and I had done the exact same thing without even realizing what I was doing.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:36 pmby Goldfish
Cutting down trees is the work of the devil!
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:40 pmby Olly
Need to add the option for "I'm single and my christmas consist of booze and cheap women."
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:47 pmby Redbeard
flight control wrote:This reminds me of the day I realized I had become just like my father.
Our first Christmas in this house, I suggested we go to my parent's property and cut down a tree. So we bundled up our two year old, I grabbed my .22 (in case we ran into a rabbit or grouse)and my axe and off we went. After an hour or so in the woods, we agreed on a tree and with one swift blow from my axe, I chopped down the mighty fir. After we got it home and on the tree stand, we both realized it was the ugliest Charlie Brown looking tree we'd ever seen. She told me to throw it out and go buy a "real tree". Ha! I told her to leave the tree alone, I'll be right back. I came back an hour later with an armfull of fir boughs, drilled a bunch of holes in the tree and stuck the branches in the holes. Voila! Then it dawned on me. This is exactly the kind of shit my dad used to do!
Every year, we'd get a tree off that property, every year my mom would complain about it, and every time, my dad would fix it. Twenty years later and I had done the exact same thing without even realizing what I was doing.
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Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:54 pmby capt1972
flight control wrote:This reminds me of the day I realized I had become just like my father.
Our first Christmas in this house, I suggested we go to my parent's property and cut down a tree. So we bundled up our two year old, I grabbed my .22 (in case we ran into a rabbit or grouse)and my axe and off we went. After an hour or so in the woods, we agreed on a tree and with one swift blow from my axe, I chopped down the mighty fir. After we got it home and on the tree stand, we both realized it was the ugliest Charlie Brown looking tree we'd ever seen. She told me to throw it out and go buy a "real tree". Ha! I told her to leave the tree alone, I'll be right back. I came back an hour later with an armfull of fir boughs, drilled a bunch of holes in the tree and stuck the branches in the holes. Voila! Then it dawned on me. This is exactly the kind of shit my dad used to do!
Every year, we'd get a tree off that property, every year my mom would complain about it, and every time, my dad would fix it. Twenty years later and I had done the exact same thing without even realizing what I was doing.
We always cut our own out of the woods, not a Nazi concentration camp tree farm.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:02 pmby flight control
Redbeard wrote:flight control wrote:This reminds me of the day I realized I had become just like my father.
Our first Christmas in this house, I suggested we go to my parent's property and cut down a tree. So we bundled up our two year old, I grabbed my .22 (in case we ran into a rabbit or grouse)and my axe and off we went. After an hour or so in the woods, we agreed on a tree and with one swift blow from my axe, I chopped down the mighty fir. After we got it home and on the tree stand, we both realized it was the ugliest Charlie Brown looking tree we'd ever seen. She told me to throw it out and go buy a "real tree". Ha! I told her to leave the tree alone, I'll be right back. I came back an hour later with an armfull of fir boughs, drilled a bunch of holes in the tree and stuck the branches in the holes. Voila! Then it dawned on me. This is exactly the kind of shit my dad used to do!
Every year, we'd get a tree off that property, every year my mom would complain about it, and every time, my dad would fix it. Twenty years later and I had done the exact same thing without even realizing what I was doing.
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Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:15 pmby DC727
Olly wrote:Need to add the option for "I'm single and my christmas consist of booze and cheap women."
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Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:40 pmby NuffDaddy
We cut one down from our back yard every year. My dad planted 1.5 acres of spruce trees 15 years ago. He keeps them all trimmed and sprayed...they look better than most $100 trees from the tree farms.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:02 pmby jehler
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Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:16 pmby jarbo03
Olly wrote:Need to add the option for "I'm single and my christmas consist of booze and cheap women."
TRUTH!!
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:24 pmby assateague
We have a fake one. Fuck your "communist". And it was made by some Chinaman.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:40 pmby DeadEye_Dan
It will be a cold day in hell when I don't cut down a living tree to celebrate the birth of Santa Claus
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:47 pmby Olly
DeadEye_Dan wrote:It will be a cold day in hell when I don't cut down a living tree to celebrate the birth of Santa Claus
Merica
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:49 pmby capt1972
assateague wrote:We have a fake one. Fuck your "communist". And it was made by some Chinaman.
I don't believe you. You are too cheap to buy a tree, fake or real.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:50 pmby capt1972
Olly wrote:Need to add the option for "I'm single and my christmas consist of booze and cheap women."
You've got the admin power, make it happen. I can't edit it.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:23 pmby 3legged_lab
Goldfish wrote:Cutting down trees is the work of the devil!
Fuckin hippy. Do you wipe your ass with leaves you found in the yard?
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:26 pmby The Duck Hammer
3legged_lab wrote:Goldfish wrote:Cutting down trees is the work of the devil!
Fuckin hippy. Do you wipe your ass with leaves you found in the yard?
That's a good way to end up with poison ivy in a bad place.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:35 pmby RonE
3legged_lab wrote:Goldfish wrote:Cutting down trees is the work of the devil!
Fuckin hippy. Do you wipe your ass with leaves you found in the yard?
Bitches love leaves! now where did I see that?
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:41 pmby RonE
Having been (in my past life in California) a logger and a Christmas Tree harvester (wholesale and retail) I am a 100% genuine made in China plastic, pre lit fake Christmas tree kind of guy
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If I can't have a good Red Fir (silvertip) fuck it. I would rather have plastic than some second rate pos from a tree farm or some Charlie Brown stick with lights. Best trees I've ever harvested came from around Lake Tahoe and Bucks Lake in Plumas County.
Now, that said, our fake tree has been in the attic for the past two years and probably going to stay there this year too.
Around here they even decorate palm trees for Christmas.
Christmas palm tree.jpg
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:43 pmby Tomkat
assateague wrote:We have a fake one. Fuck your "communist". And it was made by some Chinaman.
THIS
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:47 pmby bill herian
Real tree.
I bought it at Kwik Trip for 12 bucks.
It was also dollar cheddarwurst day.
Assa, did your fake tree come with 2 cheddarwursts?
Didn't fuckin think so.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:49 pmby Redbeard
DeadEye_Dan wrote:It will be a cold day in hell when I don't cut down a living tree to celebrate the birth of Santa Claus
HA!
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:35 pmby Bulldog0156
I'm too cheap to buy one and there's no forest service anywhere within 250 miles for me to go cut one on. Might have to take a drive through town late at night during the shitstorm we are getting and find me a charlie brown tree.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:46 pmby assateague
bill herian wrote:Real tree.
I bought it at Kwik Trip for 12 bucks.
It was also dollar cheddarwurst day.
Assa, did your fake tree come with 2 cheddarwursts?
Didn't fuckin think so.
We got ours in February, about 8 years ago, clearanced for $39. It was $139. So that means it's cost a little less than $5 a year, so far.
I saved $100, and the average tree around here is about $30. That's a $25 a year savings, times 8 years is $200 in my pocket. Plus the original hundo is $300. And I can buy an awful lot of cheddarwurst for 300 bones.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:50 pmby sws002
RonE wrote:Christmas palm tree.jpg
What the fuck is happening in this picture?
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:53 pmby ManlyMan
Used to have both. Now I have neither. Times are tough at casa de manly man.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:54 pmby assateague
You'll be working anyway.
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:56 pmby sws002
ManlyMan wrote:Used to have both. Now I have neither. Times are tough at casa de manly man.
Go a little overboard with the chainsaw did we?
Re: XMAS Tree Poll
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Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:58 pmby ManlyMan
assateague wrote:You'll be working anyway.
No, actually I won't be. Someone, somewhere forgot my name while making the schedule and I have Christmas off. Actually, I have a whole 5 days off, so I'm flying back to KC. I got big, big plans for this Christmas break.