O Christmas Tree...

In my family growing up, it was our tradition to decorate the tree on my birthday (Dec. 19). I've carried through that tradition for most of my adult life. But a couple of years ago when we tried to buy our tree on the 19th there were basically no more trees left at our local lot. A search ensued, which resulted in finding only a kind of crappy Christmas tree. Of course, we called it our Charlie Brown Christmas tree, and loved it, and decorated it - but also decided that it would probably be less stress and hassle to just get and decorate our tree earlier.

And so that is what we did today. Here is my very first Vox video showing the transformation of our tree. It's a bit of an experiment; I'm not sure how well this will translate to the web.

[Edited] The video didn't really work at all - I might try to upload via YouTube. In the mean time, here is a photo of the finished product.

The YouTube upload runs better, but it still doesn't quite work. It was good for me to try this regardless. Here is the link to YouTube video - I wasn't able to find it via Vox to embed it.