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Welcome back. I'm Rebecca.

And I'm Gabe. And we're into November.

That's right. The clock has fallen back.

Yes. Extra hour asleep.

Early.

And November 1, we put up not one but two Christmas

trees. Yes, we did. earliest we've ever done it. It's a new record. Yes, because the last time we did

this was the election of 2020. That's right. And that we were like, we all need something.

That Tuesday, we were like, let's put up a Christmas tree. Let's just not the end of this election right now. But this is very debated. I mean, people are passionate about the Christmas tree timing. I mean, some people are just, this is like heretical. It is. It really is. To do it before Thanksgiving. But I think it's nice. We had a long weekend. We were home. The house was a mess. I had ordered this tree that I was very excited about the day after Christmas last year. And it was a nice tree, but it was 75% off. So it's been sitting in a box in our basement for, you know, a long time. So I was like November 1, we're getting that thing out. And so we do. And Gabe

already knows where this is going. But the minute we got it out, we realized it was way more flocked than we thought it would be. Now, if you're listening and you don't know what flocked means, because it's an interesting word. It's supposed to, it says snowy tree. And it's supposed to have like a little bit of white on the on the edges like look like snow right because if we have one

similar to that at the house i was like It's a snowy lit tree. It's supposed to have like a little bit of white on the, on the edges, like look like snow, right?

Because if we have one similar to that at the house, I was like, oh, this is a little more

full like a fur, and it looks outside, it looks like more.

Yeah, and the picture looks very similar, like this was a perfect, just a touch of snow.

Yeah.

But instead it felt like there was snow everywhere, so much so that this tree looked pretty white. No, it looked like it had been dumped on like in a... A blizzard. A blizzard. It's a blizzard tree. And then it glued all of it. So it was like you drug it through the snow in the Midwest for like two days. So Rebecca's trying to figure out, well, how do we deflock the tree a little bit? And so I have my leaf blower, and she's like, let's use the leaf blower. And let's just go outside and start blowing snow off of the tree, which it's glued on. It's not like it's going to go that far, but she's convinced. I never tried. So hard. And then what was the brush you pulled out?

I pulled out this like dust brush. I started brushing the tree. We're blowing the tree.

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