Well, a very interesting thing happened today.
While Margaret has been trying to get in touch with the tree company for the past few days to arrange a time for them to take down the Tree of Knowledge and schedule that occurrence so we could remove the ornaments first, today the tree company took it down without telling us that they were planning to do so.
Thanks to the alert from member Staks Rosch, who had happened to be driving by and saw them cutting down the tree, who called member Shaun McGonigal, who then called me, we were fortunate and were able to reach the tree company before they disposed of our display in its entirety. I'm not sure if that's what they were planning, but we most likely would have lost the ornaments, which we plan to use again next year.
Upon hearing the alarming news of the tree being taken down without our knowledge (an interesting irony), I called Margaret who called the tree company right away. I left work and went to the Courthouse to see if the disassembly was still in process. READ MORE »