Who Would Not Get a Tree in Colorado?

I live in Colorado, and I thought that for sure when I moved here I would get a real Christmas tree. We’d had a fake one for years—my husband thought real ones were too messy—but it was looking a little dog-eared.

Well, the first time we got a real one here, we didn’t manage it right for the ultra-dry humidity. The next year was a drought year, so it was weak and fragile. On top of that, real trees here in Colorado are enormously more expensive than in California, mainly because we’re farther away from Oregon. (Our native Colorado trees are not Christmas trees.)

So I’m tired of them! I want an artificial Christmas tree. My sister has a gorgeous one. And what’s more, they support the Christmas decorations so much better. I’m so tired of my tree sagging down over the course of days from the weight of the bulbs.

My old fake tree had color coded stems that had to be fed into color-coded holes and they had to be turned a certain way. I am so looking forward to a grand new tree! Though it won’t have that great smell, I actually get to smell pine everyday where I live here in Larkspur.