Timber....The Christmas Tree Comes Down

The real Christmas tree was starting to dry out and the needles were falling all over the place so we knew it was time to haul that giant out.

We laid down a huge tarp in the living room that covered the stairs and the furniture so that nothing would get scratched up.

Then we just unscrewed the base from the tree and laid it down in the tarp.

And wrapped it up and hauled it out back to the pile of other branches to be burned.

When we were setting up the tree we were a little worried about how were going to get it back out the door but the tarp worked out great - nothing was scratched by the pine needles and there wasn't a trail of pine needles either.