Real or artificial?

[Bagwan]

I have ten acres of white pine trees . I think I'll put up a real tree .

If anyone here is in or close to Bruce County , PM me . I'll give you one .
Bring a tree spade and I'll give you a live one .

[CaptainRaiden]

What's the point of putting up a Christmas tree? My cat paws and breaks all the ornaments anyway.

As for the question: fake, since the cat also liked to chew on the branches and spit them out for no apparent reason.

Freaking minion of the antichrist.

[schmenke]

I have ten acres of white pine trees . I think I'll put up a real tree .

If anyone here is in or close to Bruce County , PM me . I'll give you one .
Bring a tree spade and I'll give you a live one .

Wrap one up and send it out west : .
I really do miss a real pine. Growing up as a kid we’d often celebrate Christmas up at the cottage where my dad and I would stomp off into the woods, cut one down and drag it back on a sled .

Up until this year the schmenke clan would drive the minivan to the local Superstore and buy one for $40

[gadjo_dilo]

I love to see cats playing. I'd get my neighbour's to destroy the ornaments.

[schmenke]

When I was out and about yesterday I noticed Xmas trees for sale and the small ones were £25 for a half metre and the 1.5 metre ones were £45!!

Is that because they’re likely imported?
I can’t imagine there being many tree farms in the U.K.

[Bagwan]

Cat problems for some , eh ?
I've got two cats and they don't mess with the tree at all .

But they do provide some perverse amusement , though , as it's likely that at least one of them will down a piece of tinsel and have a crappy little christmas ornament hanging out of thier butt at some time during the time the tree is up .

By the way , keep your trees , if they are real , really well watered .
I saw an item on a news show the other day and they showed the difference between a watered and un-watered tree when they combust . Good reminder . Scary difference .
This time of year must make insurance agents crazy .

[Bagwan]

Wrap one up and send it out west : .
I really do miss a real pine. Growing up as a kid we’d often celebrate Christmas up at the cottage where my dad and I would stomp off into the woods, cut one down and drag it back on a sled .

Up until this year the schmenke clan would drive the minivan to the local Superstore and buy one for $40

Headed out with the saw right now . How tall would you like ? Hee hee .

Too bad I don't know anybody headed out west on land , because I would send one .

Where was the cottage ?

[schmenke]

...Where was the cottage ?

A tiny place called Green Lake, about a 2 hour drive northwest of Montreal, just southwest of Sainte Agathe.

[janneppi]

Last year me and my brother bought farm grown (in estonia) spruce, which we use here in Finlandistan. At 1,9m tall, it cost 25 Eur. Some of the facier model at that place did cost 60 Eur

[gadjo_dilo]

In the last day before Christmas ( 24 Dec ) there are 2 possibilities for our greedy merchants;
1. leave all unsold trees and everybody's free to pick one
2. burn all the unsold trees

Anyway it's a shame as we have 6,3 mil ha ( 1 ha = 10000 square metres ) forests and about 30% is pine that we import trees from Denmark or Austria. Fair to say the imported ones look much better