A Christmas Tree

Which this year poses an ethical dilemma.  I can buy one at one of my traditional nurseries for, I don't know, around a hundred bucks.  But on Saturday I'm over at Home Depot, already a prime suspect in the death of enterprises I like, and there is a very good Frazier fir, eight feet, $36.99.  And a guy who looks just as woodsy and strange as the guys at the nurseries, who's prepared to saw off the bottom stub of the truck, trim up the branches, and run it through the machine that webs it up for the drive home.    (The beard on the guy. ZZ Top.)

So call me evil, and may God save the Republic, but I went with Home Depot.