Episode 19 - The Tree I almost returned

Thursday Think Bites · Apr 16, 2026 · 2m · transcript

Episode 19 - The Tree I Almost returned

We spent three months researching the perfect tree for our backyard.

Fruit tree or maple?

Flowering or evergreen?

My husband even made spreadsheets.

We visited nurseries, read reviews, debated everything.

And after all that?

Still no decision.

Then one afternoon we were at Costco with our daughter and her friend.

And there it was a green Japanese maple.

We looked at each other…

and bought it in 30 seconds.

The tree barely fit in the car.

Half of it was sticking out of the moonroof while the rest of us held the branches.

The wind kept blowing it around…