Big Christmas tree

Cut this tree at our house, hauled it to church, will be hanging lights this evening after storms go through. Big Christmas get together with tree lighting at church next Saturday.....

Clark Griswold will be looking for that tree! Lol

I wanted to haul it to church on the roof of the car!! Make Clark Griswold proud!

Who stopped you?

My grandpa would cut his own tree. His old house had 10 or 12 foot ceilings. The tree would barely stand up. Then he would go to the store and buy two shopping carts full of candy and pop corn. He loved his family parties. He had 14 grand kids.

Mark.... Lucky my wife did! Been hard on that sunroof!

Thats not a sunroof. Its an access hole for reaching up and holding onto the tree as you zip down the highway.

My church has a sanctuary with very tall ceilings. We use to put up a real 20 (or whatever) foot christmas tree that would reach the ceiling. Usually would put it up after thanksgiving. Leave it bare the first sunday. And that night the sunday school kids and adults would decorate it, and have a supper for the decorators. The tree would stay up past new years day. So that entailed being up for one more sunday past christmas.
I can remember helping put up the last huge tree (probably late 90's, early 2000's). A church elder had picked the tree out on neighbors property. So, I got in on helping cut the tree down and hauling it to church on my 4 wheel wagon that year.
Sadly, that was the last year our church put up big real christmas tree. They went to a small artificial christmas tree the following year and every year since.
My church is a rural country church, with a very small dwindling congregation now. There is nobody to do anything anymore. Especially young hands. There's only 3 kids that make up the entire under 18 sunday school classes. Average church service between 20 and 30 people total. Most are elderly. We lucky to get people to fill the 6 seats on the church board anymore.

Would have been a great picture though!

Not so hard on the sunroof as the tree when you stuff it out the top and then tell her it has to go to the north pole for the light not working. Oh wait no lights yet.

We have one family with kids yet, 13, 15 and 19. I'll be 70 on Christmas and most everybody is older than me.

No gov't money involved! So no Grinch. Love it. Come up and put mine up as I don't have the energy this year.

GP,
Does dragging the tree remove all dead needles?
Thanks for the pic.
Nice thing you are doing for your church.

Congrats to you guys and your church group.
Very good work and team building for the young.
We're proud of your involvement there.
Keep it up!
GG