Stop! Don't So Much as Breathe!

I've been waiting all year to put up this Christmas tree that I inherited from my mother. I always admired her tree and when she got a new one she offered it to me.The picture doesn't do it justice but one of the things I love about it is how triangular it is. I often don't like the predictable, but I do in this case. It's like a child's drawing of a tree.
Awesome!!

However, when I went to put up the tree, it had issues. It was pointed out to me that probably mom was ready for a new one for a reason! So after some rigging, it's up. Yay.

Then it falls.

Then it falls again and again.

So I text my sister to share my plight and she text's back, "Maybe it's the spirit of Butch" .... the cat (RIP), who I hear tell liked to climb and knock down the tree!

But for now, it's up.... so let's be careful....