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I'm impressed!   We're way out on the skinny end of the bell curve here in 
Forest Grove!

Jane B-P


> As a young lad in Ohio, starting at the the tender age of 8 the baton was 
> handed to me to set up our artificial tree.  The tree had been purchased 
> probably 5 years earlier and the different length branches were inserted at the 
> different levels of the vertical pole from top to bottom based on the painted 
> colors of their tips.
> 
> Over the course of the next 13 years, even though the paint on the tips 
> continued to flake off and I continued to paint on more, the tree held up quite 
> well.  In fact, that tree was used for 20 years and could've been used even 
> longer, but me being the youngest and off to college meant too much of a burden 
> for my mom to attempt to set up the tree by herself so my parents purchased 
> an artificial tree that you simply pulled out of a box and it was good to go 
> as is.  That tree lasted 10 years until my mom finally decided setting up and 
> tearing down a full-size tree was simply too much effort.  And one of my 
> sisters' now uses that tree.
> 
> 2 artifical trees in 30 years and still going strong . . . not too bad. 
> 
> 
> Allen Warren
> 
> 
> 




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