There's the normal way...

and there's the Cushman way.

While most families are content to simply stand on tiptoes and decorate a six-foot tree in their living rooms... well... let's just say, the Cushman family is not most families.

If it doesn't involve heavy machinery, and at least one person dangling off the end of it risking life and limb to put a star on top, well... it's just not a Cushman Christmas tree.

Unfortunately, my camera batteries died before the real action started, but my sister-in-law got some more. Stay tuned for pix of my nephew Chad hanging from the top of this contraption, as well as my daughter and hubby in the bucket of a bulldozer, putting on ornaments.