A. and R. went to Idylwilde to acquire the tree. They went before 10 a.m. so it was apparently more or less deserted. This is about a week and a half earlier than we did this last year; hopefully, the tree will survive until at least Boxing Day, as we are hosting and it would be embarrassing if it died sooner.
And as R. noted in a comment on an earlier post, the broken Minnie ornament (along with a couple new Minnie ornaments and of course all the ones from previous years) is on the tree.
