I Met The Cutest Ass Today………
Nov 30th, 2009 by BohemianMoon
She and a number of other animals were at the Christmas tree farm where we went a-perfect-pine-tree-huntin’ today. Becky was a part of the manger scene, though methinks that she was more impressed with the folks digging through their change for quarters to to buy feed than she was with the (mannequin) Baby Jesus & Co. – and without a doubt she was definitely more impressed with potential nibbles than the
Earnestine the Llama was a part of the manger scene as well. Apparently camels are pretty much a no-go in Western NY – which is fine by me. What camel can look
Earnestine, Camel Joe’s got nothing on you ’cause Llamas Rock (and Joe gives one cancer)!
Dasher has apparently been ostracized from Dancer and Prancer and Comet and Vixen and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen and…..
With the farm-animals-playing-Christmas-characters petting portion of our tree hunt concluded, it was off to get on the tractor pulled wagon to cart us down
to the Douglas Firs and the Fraser Firs and the Canaan Firs and the White Spruces and the Blue Spruces and the Scots pine
So many trees and apparently Web Boy chose the “all the time in the world” method of tree hunting as we walked and walked and as soon as one tree was considered perfect, a walk a few feet to the left or the right or in front or in back presented another perfect tree and another and….well you get the idea. In other words, none were perfect and the search continued and continued and continued until a short discussion with the wagon lady and one more ride around the farm found us in the tall tree section of Douglas Firs. Getting a bit exasperated at Web Boy’s new found state of “We must find the perfect tree, we must find the perfect tree”
“This is it!”, I said. A tree we find here.
So he sawed and sawed and finally
The next installment? Getting it in the door (Hooo boy) and decorated!
All in all it was a perfect day. I met an ass that I actually liked and found the perfect tree.
Falalalala Lalalala 
Ooooh, 12 foot? I wish I had the ceilings!
That place looks familiar. I lived in Rome, NY. We went everywhere around the state, and I swear that looks familiar.
It makes me want to dig out some old slides.
SharnaPax~
It was the Stokoe Farm in Scottsville, NY. We had fun and since this year is the last that Web Boy will be picking out a tree with us, I was glad we went and shared a great day together.
Last year we didn’t even put up a tree – we had kittens and it wasn’t in our best interest. We got our tree from this same farm the first year we were here, but Web Boy was away at school so didn’t come. That was the first year that we didn’t pick out a tree together – it was so odd.
Well 17 years of picking out trees together out of 19 isn’t bad – great memories
Oh, I do understand (and yes, that farm sounds familiar! I think I have been there.)
I’ve not had a tree since both kids left. It just seemed too much trouble, since I don’t really care about the holiday.
Our last xmas together we called “Wacky Tacky Xmas”. We all went to buy the most horrible ornaments we could find. My daughter and I bought a cardboard “fireplace” (which we kept cautioning everyone not to get too close to, or else be singed!). We draped the entire living room in garland and horrible ornaments.
We then wrapped the small trees outside in so many lights that Ol’ Grammy called up from the Big House (a mile down our driveway) to see if our house was on fire.
Then we mouth-farted xmas carols, after which we had hot cocoa with Kahlua, and french fries. It was a most fine xmas day.
My husband and I actually have Xmas in July…when his business is way more flush. We give each other a set amount of money and say, “If I were to buy you something, it would be this …” and then each of us has to run off buy that thing. It’s so much fun.
How marverlous it would be to have a live tree. Just the smell of it every morning. Iv’e always wanted one. But unfortunately they are some what messy. Nice tree moon that you and web boy found.
SharnaPax- love your idea of wacky tacky xmas LOL… I might have to use it some year when my daughter gets older.
Ahh, there is nothing like Xmas when the kiddos are home. I too (Sharna) stopped putting them up once the last dtr. left home. Moon, I remember sooo many times over the years, roaming through the tree farm, to find THE perfect tree. Sometimes it would be so cold, you felt your ears were going to freeze off. And then of course, (as you know) there’s the ‘pathetic’ experience of trying to find a tree in S. FL (sprayed green, honest) at the local Publix! We had a fake tree one year, and that was it. It just seems too phony, much like the commercialization of Xmas. I need the smell from the real ones, it just doesn’t seem ‘right’ without it!
Now I just put up a little ceramic one I made years ago and use some fir scented room spray, LOL.
What a beautiful tree! I wish we could do a real one, but our allergies are too bad. The last time my parents had a real tree, I was a teenager and we were all so stuffy and miserable, we decided it wasn’t worth it. So, fake it is.
Rats! I really thought this thread would feature a close-up shot of a denim clad male posterior. A fine ass, indeed.
Oddly enough, I just finished reading the new cookbook written by Ree Drummond aka “The Pioneer Woman” (fantastic blog site BTW). She ended the book with a tight shot of her hunky husband’s rear end (the Marlborough Man – he’s a hot, bona fide cowboy/rancher).
Now there’s one fine ass!
Enjoy your 12 footer, Moon! (We use a fake, pre-lit tree.)
Don’t you have a problem with the cats crawling into it?
The only thing missing from this perfect Xmas scene was snow!
Our family puts up two trees. My husband likes the old (raggy) artificial one, we have had for years and I cannot do without a real fresh pine tree. Actually, hubby never had a REAL tree at Christmas till he married me. His family had that ‘50’s-ish silver metal tree with the rotating colors spotlight till the ‘80’s.
The difference in base tree mediums does not end there:
The artificial tree is located in the family room and decorated in multi lights, classical TV Christmas characters, and basically every shape, color shade and size of mismatched ornaments! Completed with a Lionel Train and track underneath.
The real tree is what I consider the formal tree in the living room with a country/colonial theme. ONLY clear lights, mainly fruits, farm animals, snow flakes, natural element ornaments limited to the colors of reds, antique golds, white or opaque. Underneath our manger scene and Department 56 Dickens village.
~LINDA~
Totally OT but I had to tell you that I and everyone else LOVED your cheesecake! it’s going to be a new tradition. Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for sharing, Moon
It looked like a very fun and memorable day 
I couldn’t help but think of Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation, cutting down the enormous tree (little full, lota sap) LOL
Looks like a fun day was had by all Moon!
We are waiting till youngest son arrives from college on the 14th, which is latelatelate for us to do a tree, but has been 12 years since we’ve had a Christmas with him.
Now the problem is his older brother has started making noise about coming for Christmas. Which would be fine if there hadn’t been the incident at Old Chicago Pizza this summer where older son attempted to stab younger son’s hand with a fork.
Family Drama?
Not on my agenda!!!
I, too gave up on Christmas trees several years ago. The kids are only here for several days and it’s just too much work for me. To do this room justice the tree must be 10-12′ tall and the fuller the better. A normal size tree just looks lost in here. Thought about going artificial, but couldn’t do it. Two years ago I was walking through Lowes and found the answer to my problem. A four ft tall (in pot) Norfolk Island Pine. Put some miniture decorations on it & it looks ‘almost’ as good as a big tree. Cost me $18 … and the best part is … it’s still alive and it will be my Christmas tree for the third year.
We also put up two trees. We started doing this years ago when we lived in Florida. Hubby took my daughter to a tree farm to cut down a tree – the only problem is that fir trees in Florida grow way too spindly and wispy to hold a full complement of lights and ornaments. Since they drove two hours to get there, they cut down a little four footer and purchased one of the pre-cut, Northern grown big trees. My daughter loved having her very own tree that she decorated herself so it became a tradition. Now I just get a little tabletop real tree for her and put up our big fake one. I still get the smell without all the mess.
Off to make turkey soup and cranberry orange coffeecake. Got to get rid of those leftovers – I want my fridge back!
Moon what a wonderful start to the Christmas season. Thank you very much for sharing and getting me in the Christmas spirit!
Nothing better than cutting your own Christmas tree.
I can smell it from here!
#9Joanna
~LINDA~
Totally OT but I had to tell you that I and everyone else LOVED your cheesecake! it’s going to be a new tradition. Thanks for the recipe!
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I’m so glad….yep, the nite I tasted that cheesecake (in ‘71) I knew it was a keeper! I only make it about once or twice a year.
When the kids were little we went to Boone, NC to cut our tree. Just about a 2.5 hr drive from where we lived and I wanted to start a tradition. We got to Boone just about dusk. It was about an hour chore, to find that PERFECT tree. I could see the fog and rain in the lot lights. Coming home the fog had settled, that and a misty rain, left conditions so bad you could not even see the yellow divider line. The wife and kids were scared to death and after driving for about 20 minutes blind on mountain curves the fog finally subsided. I actually had to open the drivers door to see the lines, yeah not smart. It took me 3 years to get them to go again and this time I started early. I was determined to set this once a year tradition right once and for all. It was a clear day no rain and we arrived early enough to eat dinner (lunch) cut the tree and get down off the mountain before dark. With the tree tied to the roof of the Ford Escort, we made our way back home. Going downhill the tree held fast. As soon as we leveled off and picked up speed the tree decided to make a retreat to the back of the car, almost coming off the back. With the windows down, me and my wife holding the ropes and the windchill in the car about -20, the family was miserable. We had to stop at another lot to get the tree retied, something he had done often in the past few days, he said. That ended that. We had a nice lot close by the house and for the last several years bought one from them. Would I go cut my own again, in a minute, I think it would be alone however.
Looks like a fun day. We have an artificial tree. We had a real one once and never again. First it fell off the car while bringing home, would not stand straight in the stand so it was wired to the wall and then although we bought it somewhere legit it must have been sprayed with something and when it got warm in our apartment, it started to smell like cat pee! Although artificial, we have a most beautiful tree because all the ornaments represent something, someone or somewhere. We still have the glittered stars the kids made when they were little, things made out of popsicle sticks, McDonald Happy meal toys, tuna fish can nativity scenes, etc. It is truly the story of our family laid out for all to see on our tree.
OMG, you must have some tall ceilings! That tree is beautious, I love those kinds of trees too, the ornaments hang best on those. You look very cute in the misty evergreen light, Moon. Such pretty photos. You HAVE to show us the tree once it’s done up!
Looks like you had fun. I’d love to have a real tree, but my allergies are so bad that when I’m around them they affect my asthma.
I love Christmas for all the wrong reasons, but I think it’s a lovely holiday.
#16search for truth
When the kids were little we went to Boone, NC to cut our tree
My youngest daughter goes to school in Boone! (we live in NC) I love driving up there and seeing all of the Christmas tree farms. We’ve never cut our own, but we have gone to the same tree lot every year for over 20 years — they are NC growers and always have the best pre-cut trees around.
For the past 5 Christmas’ (not sure if that is correct spelling), we have had a 12-15 foot tree. The ceiling in our family room is about 25 feet at it’s peak. Last year our tree stand leaked (luckily I caught it before it damaged our hardwood floors) and hubby said no more trees in the family room. Both college daughters are disappointed, as they feel all of our family traditions are slowly fading away. I was a little bit upset as well, but we will be putting this year’s tree in our little sunroom (not really a true sunroom) off of our kitchen. Now I will get to enjoy it more and if the stand leaks, it will be on the slate floors, so it won’t really matter. Plus, as I said to my girls, the money we save on a shorter tree will buy them another present (sometimes I have to appeal to their material side
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Loved the pictures of the llama with the buck teeth and the top-heavy reindeer — reminded me of a Dr. Seuss menagerie of Whoville animals.
Moon, your tree looks gorgeous and I’m sure it will be so fragrant and adorned with all of your creativeness. You will have to share pictures of it once it’s up and decorated.
I bet that will be a beautiful tree when you get it done…glad to see you all had a great time. I love a real tree, they smell so good. They say they clean the O2 in the room…I don’t know if that is true, but makes sense.
Linda ~ I think when it comes to making turkey gravy its just not meant to be. It didn’t come out for me. Another year failed. Thanks for the receipe.
Joanna ~ Your pumpkin bread was awesome. Thank you for the recipe. Still eating it.
Gorgeous tree, Moon. I grew up in a 200 year old farmhouse, we were five kids, and our parents gave us the most magical Christmas’s. They had us truly convinced Santa did it all, because in our home, he did. There wasn’t a tree, an ornament, a parcel or a strand of tinsel in our house when we to bed on Christmas Eve. The only sign of Christmas was our empty stockings hanging on the stair rail. Our parents waited until we were asleep and then they rushed around like mad hatters, putting up the tree, decorating the house, assembling the toys, filling the stockings, wrapping the gifts, filling the candy dishes and fruit bowls. Our house literally transformed into this feast of Christmas while we slept. I honestly don’t recall much of what we got by way of the toys but that magic is with me still.
Put the lights on before you stand it up. Seriously.
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#16search for truth
When the kids were little we went to Boone, NC to cut our tree
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Bobbi, are you near me? I’m in Charlotte.
#22 smallfry
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#24 escrow mama
Did you like the cheese cake?
#25Linda
20Bobbi
#16search for truth
When the kids were little we went to Boone, NC to cut our tree
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Bobbi, are you near me? I’m in Charlotte.
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Linda,
I live right outside of Greensboro. It’s nice to have another North State person here.
Linda. loved, loved, loved the cheesecake. 1 piece left and IT’S MINE ALL MINE! My people wanted fruit on it so I made a topping with fresh blueberries, blackberries and raspberries.
#22smallfry
Glad you liked it, smallfry. I’m still eating it too
Love the pics. Sigh…I hate living in the desert. I spent a fortune a couple of years ago on a fake tree that looks as real as it can get. The real ones die here way to fast and become dangerous. That’s the one thing I miss about having our vacation home up north, we could have a real tree up at xmas. What a wonderful memory maker day for you Moon.
That looks like it was so much fun. I want a burro for my suburban back yard.
#27escrow mama
Linda. loved, loved, loved the cheesecake. 1 piece left and IT’S MINE ALL MINE! My people wanted fruit on it so I made a topping with fresh blueberries, blackberries and raspberries.
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So glad. I’ve talked about it so much here, now I think I’m going to make it for my office party in a couple of wks.
Gowd! Becky is adorable. I love it when animals have human names. It’s obnoxious but cute at the same time – anyone follow me???
And Ernestine, oh my gosh, she looks like she has a bee in her bonnet. I love animals with personality.
Linda~
Your cheescake recipe was amazing and I ate almost all of it!!!
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Beautiful,beautiful tree! I always wanted to have a huge tree but like most folks we don’t have the ceiling height for one. I’ll just admire your tree Moon.
When us kids were little my dad always got our Christmas tree. The tree would start out big but, by the time he got through trimming and sawing it to a “perfect” tree it was a table top size. Oh, those trees are still talked about to this day and dad’s been gone for 18years now.
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Linda~
Your cheescake recipe was amazing and I ate almost all of it!!!
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Good start to packing on the extra holiday pounds! LMAO, all of it? My calories of choice – I personally, am consuming mega amts. of egg nog. Gosh, I love that stuff! Thank heavens it’s a seasonal product, otherwise I’d be bigger than a house.
35Linda
Believe it or not, I really did eat just about the whole thing; the last piece straight off the bottom of the form. HA!. But I need the calories. I’m one of those people who gets skinnier as I age which is not as appealing as it sounds.
#34jeanette
Oh, those trees are still talked about to this day and dad’s been gone for 18years now.
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“Can you believe the tree Dad got this year?!?!” would be an interesting thread. My dad brought home some doozys. One year we had two, with the bare sides facing each other held together with fishing line. Of course they were on sale Christmas eve. But God Bless Dad and his budget because just like he promised, they did indeed reach the foyer ceiling.
#37NonTraditional Student
One year we had two, with the bare sides facing each other held together with fishing line. Of course they were on sale Christmas eve. But God Bless Dad and his budget because just like he promised, they did indeed reach the foyer ceiling.
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BWHAHAHAHHA…gasp…BWHAHAHAH
I bought a 4 ft. ficus plant about 12 years ago that I drag outside in the summer to put on our patio and in the winter it comes inside to sit in a corner of the living room. It’s been re-potted a couple of times, watered when I think about it and seldom given food, but it’s somehow managed to stay alive and even thrive all these years. It is now 9 ft. tall and 5-6 ft. wide and stretches from floor to ceiling. I put up a small artificial tree at the other end of the living room but the ficus becomes our yearly Christmas tree tradition and it’s graced with lights, ornaments and bows. The grandkids love it!