Well we when out shoping for the best christmas tree we could find. 3 stores and 4 lots later. (Just keep repeating I love my wife over and over in my head). We finnaly found one. Payed for it, throw it in the back of the truck and drove it home. Did not by the stand for the tree. 1 there just to darn much, and 2 I own to many stands. One of the stands I owen got to fit right?
Got it home followed the instruction telling me to cut 2 inchs off the bottom of the tree. Pulled out the many base I own. Looked at the base of the tree and then the tree bace holder. Scrach my head, grab the biggest base I got. Too small for the base of the truck of the tree. Trim the brak down from the trunk. Still to big....
Get back in to the truck drive back to the tree lot get a bigger base. Ouch they charge more when you dont buy it with the tree. Ask if it not to late to return the tree I bough from them earily. Got Laughed at. Drove home. Go to put the base on and what do you know two of the tree branchs are in the way by 2 inchs to seat the tree in to the base.
I cut the two branchs off put the base on. I stand the tree upright to tighten the eye bolts in to place to keep the tree up right in the base. I figure out a problem. The two branchs I trimed off, left two gapping holes in the tree now. So I flip the tree back overcut some more off this tree. It was a 8 foot tall tree before I started.
A very long story, but I trimed some here and some there stood the tree up put it back down, trimed more.......
The tree is know ruffly 5 foot tall (Wife and kids not to happy about). Give or take a few inchs. No major holes in the tree (makes wife really happy). But the new base I bough is now to big. I used the first base I pulled out. I will save the bigger base for next year. (makes me and my pocket book very unhappy).
Just though I would share this... Maybe this will bring a smile to someone's face, and brighten there day..
