The Christmas season has arrived in our household.

[jb]

Wife just put up the plastic 6' Christmas tree and went to get granddaughter #3 to help trim it out.
This might seem odd to some folks knowing that we live in the Christmas tree capital of the state, but after years and years of cutting or buying our real trees we just decided about 5 years ago to go plastic. It's a lot cleaner, less allergies, fewer arguments as to size and type and just easier up and down. Kids still do the real thing but not us anymore.
We have a very nice tree, still looks fake, but is lost among all the other Christmas stuff wife puts up.
So, Merry Christmas to all.

[Big Muddy]

Us, too, JB....went artificial about 5 years ago....best thing we ever did....no cutting to fit the tree stand base, no worry about a fire, no water stains on the carpet, no needles shedding everywhere, no stray bugs, and no arguments.

Now, if I could just get wifey to agree to throw a sheet over it, and leave it standing in the corner ALL year, we'd be good to go. ;)

[Chicken Dinner]

Man, you guys are gettin' old..