Scouts sell great trees

We collected a tree from the Boy Scout Troop 855 in Academy Park last weekend, a 6-foot concolor fir, $60.

The young man who sold it to us carefully trimmed the bottom branches and took a thin slice off the base to make water more easily absorbed.

Then he helped a new adult leader tie it on top of our car with a practiced hand, teaching the dad, whose son was a Tenderfoot, how to link a trucker’s hitch to an overhand knot and tautline hitch. He hadn’t ascended to a bowline yet, but in time.

The Tenderfoot showed me how if you pinch the needles it smells like citrus.

We got the nearly perfect tree home and erected it in our living room. It is so full on the bottom that I couldn’t quite reach in with the water pitcher.

Then it dawned on me. Last summer, at the Confer Plastics open house, Bob handed out funnels to guests. The Confer funnel is the perfect size and length to wedge directly in the stand, a perfect fit made in North Tonawanda.

Unfortunately, funnels won’t be available again until the new year. Glad we got one.