9. Describe getting a Christmas tree with your family as a child. Tell when and how it was decorated. When we were kids the first Christmas tree I remember having was one of those silver ones, the kind that you always had the color wheel with. We had that tree for years. Then one year, my mom met my dad, who by the way was my step dad, but the only dad I ever knew, so I refer to him as my dad. He deserves his own blog really. If I find something in this list that asks about a relative, I will write about him. So, that actually takes me back to the tree thing. When mom met Jerry, is when we got our first real tree. The first time I remember going to get it, we all piled into the car, Cus that is what we had to do. Actually, I don’t remember if this was the first time, or just one time that I remember. Anyway, Jerry drove way up into the mountains. He knew all these really great places for almost everything. No surprise, he knew a really great place to get a real tree. Way up in the mountains, off the side of the road, we got out of the car and started walking. We walked for a while until he said if you see one you like, say something and we will cut that one down. We had never done anything like this before, and it was fun finding a real tree in the wild. It wasn’t a tree “farm”. It was our first wild tree. We looked and looked and finally found one. I really don’t remember exactly who cut the tree down, but it was cut Im sure with a saw that only had one handle. My brothers probably took turns sawing. We dragged it back to the car and it was tied to the top of the car. At that time, it was common to see people drive around with trees tied to the top of their cars up there. Actually, I think the tree we cut down may have been cut in an illegal area, I don’t know, but that was the funnest tree cutting that I remember.