It all started with a new Tree 5

This is the Dog Tree, it needs attention. 

Stripped and Redone, I don't want to.

The Dog tree came pre-lit MANY years ago. 

3 dogs in the house and it went down to many times, think barking 60-pound dogs at the window.

I went to Dollar Tree and bought all tacky unbreakable plastic and paper ornaments.

it looked good in the dark, for years!

Last year the lights died. To cut them off, I would have to remove all the cheap stuff and I chose to take wired fairy lights and wrap it like a tree mummy with the lights on the outside of the ornaments.

Are you picking up the fact I hate decorating?

For now, the wrapped tree resides on the kitchen counter.

The bottom looks pretty if you can't see the top.

Cheap, unbreakable, fits in a bag, on a shelf and back out with nothing to do but plug it in.

Now it resides on the kitchen counter.

 

I backed off and thought Linda and Ginny and Annie and Ann would all agree the kitchen was to plain with nothing but a tiny tree.

I grabbed the berries that were in the vase on the kitchen table and plunked it in the bottle that Philomena's Daughter lived in until I tossed her in the trash.

As I staggered to my chair, totally stressed from all these decisions, I realized

the kitchen table had an empty vase.

OY VEY

I rushed to the closet and...........................