As I’ve grown older I’ve begun to have awkward and uncomfortable feelings about the intentional annual Christmas tree murder.  For the 2008 Christmas I managed to convince my wife into a non-conventional tree.  In fact, it was just a lighted palm tree that was in our yard the previous year.  It was a beautiful thing!  I think friends and family believed we were holiday spirit challenged.  I suppose it was really more of a Festivus pole.

Lighted Palm Christmas Tree 2008

This year was a different matter.  I’m somewhat indifferent about Christmas so I gave in to my better half (more like 3/4′s).  She was insistent on having a real tree that would be cut from a farm, and die a slow choking death.   This is how it sits today:

Dying Christmas Tree 2009

Of course it’s not all bad.  This video of our annual Christmas tree burning is from Christmas 2007.  Don’t get all preachy on me about the environment.  I was simply setting the spirit of the tree free so it could find its way to the next Christmas!  I was so excited I think I channeled the future ghost of Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Honestly I don’t really sound like that.  :-/