Part 2: Holiday Weekend Wrap Up

(Part 1 of this story is here)

So, the day after Thanksgiving the plan was that we would meet up with my Dad, brother, SIL and niece at a local diner where we would have a bite to eat and decide where to cut down our tree this year.  You might not realize what a big decision this can be.  We have probably tried every tree farm within a 20 mile (or more!) radius over the years.  We have never been able to find the elusive "best Christmas tree farm ever".  One year we actually went to THREE different tree farms trying to find a decent tree.  Well, lucky for us, last year we went to one of our usual places and when we couldn't find a tree in their main field, they informed us there was another field they had opened, so we went there - and there were some GREAT trees in that new field.  So this year we quickly decided to try that place again, and crossed our fingers that particular field would be open again, and it was.  In fact we decided to even go back to the same "section" we had cut a tree from last year, which happened to be Douglas Firs.  (There are quite a few different varities of Christmas trees.  They can vary quite a bit in appearance, color, fragrance, needle and branch size, and some varieties last longer after being cut than others.  We just usually cut what looks good to us - we're not usually stuck on getting a certain variety.)

 

  

Because the trees were so nice it didn't take long to find a tree that we liked.  (If you're interested to know how we ended up using the GPS at the tree farm, you can read about it at my geocaching blog: So You Wanna Go Geocaching.)  DH got out his bow saw and quickly had our tree down.  

  

 

Here's a pic of the tree we chose before DH cut it down

      

In the meantime my Dad had found a tree he liked, and he and my brother cut that tree down.  Then we threw them into the back of my truck and drove up to the top of the field where the baler was.

  

 

(Can you see DH's hand waving?)

     

(Sorry these pics are so overexposed, by the way.  It was a very, bright, beautiful, clear, sunny day that day, and my camera doesn't have fancy settings to accommodate for that.  Or if it does, I don't know how to use them.  :-P )

  

To be continued...

   

The end.