Christmas Tree

 I put up my Christmas tree!

It's a smaller one and so far so good with the cats.

I love it!@

I had thought about putting it up in the garage, to keep it safe from the cats.  Then I planned on getting a $5 Forest Service Christmas Tree permit and going out to cut one.   I checked out the maps in the Willamette Forest where I could go cut and had determined to go up Quartzville road to cut one.  The permit area up there starts just after Yellowbottom.  

When I was a kid, that's always how we got our tree, going out into the National Forest to cut one.   They were never perfect and you might get some bugs bailing at home, but it was a tradition and often done in pouring rain.

But in the end, this little one is just fine.

Mona Lisa is doing very well after her 8 exractions, all Level Four.   The bill for everything she got, including a convenia injection (long lasting antibiotic) was way lower than I thought it would be.  Now I am saving up to get her sister in.   If hers were that bad, likely her sister Huckleberry has bad teeth too.