My trusty ax has been sharpened

Finally, a permanent solution to the Fidel problem!

Fresh trees are the best! We cut down our own every year and it's a family tradition. Nothing like it to bring out the true scent of the holiday season.

I love it! We got ours today. The only problem is that we don't live close enough to a tree farm to go get one. Although the tree guy we go to cuts his the 3 days before Thanksgiving and trucks them down here on Thanksgiving, so it's as fresh as can be and drinking water like mad.

Also, it has to be a pine. No frickin' fir trees for us. Cheaper, too.

Val, you brought me back to my childhood. My brother (age 4 back then) used to play over & over some 78s with Arbolito.
I posted the lyrics at my blog.

How's the tree? All decorated?

I love the smell of a fresh tree, I admit it. One problem, though - we celebrate Navidad, Año Nuevo, and Reyes, and if you are boricual like me, count las octavitas, and all the way to Feb 2 - Candelaria Day. It's a long time to have a tree up.

My mother used to buya fresh tree days before Christmas, and we would enjoy it until after Reyes. Nowadays, I get pissed off when I see people throwing their trees out on the street curve on the 26th of December! Dang it, it's not over! What determines that kind of stupidity? The season's commerce?

I think I have a fresh pine tree spray somewhere in my Xmas stuff. I'll spray it around my tree. Hopefully, no one will know the difference... ;)