Packing Up the Decorations...sort of.

So, today we spent putting away ALL of the Christmas decorations, sort of. I think the pictures can speak for themselves...well, maybe some explanation is needed:

Before

After

No, its not the taking trash heap from Fraggle Rock....its our tree. The darn new tree we got this year is supposed to separate into 3 pieces. We got the top piece off...and the others would not come apart. Joe and I fought with it for a long time then gave up and put it in the garage together until we have help. We tried soap and pliers. NOTHING worked.