It’s time for my annual series of “What I Did On My Christmas Vacation” posts. Here’s the first.
Day after Christmas was a great one for planting the Retallick family’s tabletop Alberta spruce. Off with the pine cone decorations…
And into the ground…
Mom takes the one-gallon pot away before I tamp soil around the base of the tree. In Tucson, the city accepts these pots for curbside recycling. But Westtown Township doesn’t do that.
During a walk with my father, we encountered the Surveillance Tree…
You can’t have a Christmas holiday in Pennsylvania without rain…
When I was growing up, this was one mighty oak. Mom and Dad had it cut down a few years ago. Reason: If it had fallen down, no more Retallick house.
This tree was big and old when I was young. Now it’s a monster!
So, that’s how things stand during the week after Christmas. The snow melted away, now it’s raining. And we await additional snow…
