Today, Nate and I went to get our first Christmas Tree. Both of us love to have a real tree, even with all of the work that it entails. We did our homework, and looked up several farms in the area and investigated prices. Our backup was the local youth hockey tree lot just a few miles down the highway. The farm we chose was quite a ways out in the countryside. Even by Small Town standards it was way out in the country. It was cold, and snowing, which are, of course, the perfect conditions to hunt for a tree. Here, in pictures, is the Hunt for the Perfect Tree.
Where, oh where, is the Perfect Tree?
Yay! We found one. Look how nice it looks among all the rest.
Now to shake the snow off, so that it doesn't blow while we are driving.
Next, the saw. This is a job for Nate - it was too prickly for me. My job is to hold it steady.
My job is also not to drag the tree to the car. Nate is much better at this than I.
Heave Ho! Up on to the car it goes!
OK! Hold it. Hold it. I'm trying hard, but I'm not really tall enough. Luckily, the tree diameter is almost bigger than the car! We were down the road a piece from the main farm, so we had to drive back to the barn with the tree all bushy like this on top of the car. It made for Very Interesting corners while driving. We did get it bundled down for the trip back home, which made it much less interesting, but safer driving.
After we got it inside and unbundled, we began to think that maybe we should've paid attention to the warning of the diameter of the tree being larger than the car... It did take some minor rearrangement of the furniture to actually be able to view the TV while sitting in the living room. Now, on to decorating!
Where, oh where, is the Perfect Tree?
Yay! We found one. Look how nice it looks among all the rest.
Now to shake the snow off, so that it doesn't blow while we are driving.
Next, the saw. This is a job for Nate - it was too prickly for me. My job is to hold it steady.
My job is also not to drag the tree to the car. Nate is much better at this than I.
Heave Ho! Up on to the car it goes!
OK! Hold it. Hold it. I'm trying hard, but I'm not really tall enough. Luckily, the tree diameter is almost bigger than the car! We were down the road a piece from the main farm, so we had to drive back to the barn with the tree all bushy like this on top of the car. It made for Very Interesting corners while driving. We did get it bundled down for the trip back home, which made it much less interesting, but safer driving.
After we got it inside and unbundled, we began to think that maybe we should've paid attention to the warning of the diameter of the tree being larger than the car... It did take some minor rearrangement of the furniture to actually be able to view the TV while sitting in the living room. Now, on to decorating!
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That would definately be a memorable experience. Hope you ejoyed and Happy Holidays!
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