gettin us a Christmas tree

On a road not too far away from here is a Christmas tree farm. Seeing as it's getting close to Christmas time, and we're going to be at home this Christmas, we decided a visit to said Christmas tree farm was in order. We set out on Saturday morning at the crack of dawn (well, maybe 10 AM) on our mission and got there around 10:03 and promptly realized we didn't have enough cash and we had forgotten the checkbook. We hung our heads, turned the Tacoma around and made the daunting return trip to secure funding. Fast-forward to 10:07 and we're back at the tree farm with checkbook in pocket, along with our hands since the wind was blowing and it was a full 5 degrees colder up to the hill. We chatted with the dude in the barn and he told us the prime area for the type of tree we were after - a noble.



We waddled back to the truck to pick up the saw, then it was deep in to the forest. Right next to the road we found just the tree we were after -



come to find out, Susie has been stopping to talk to this tree for about the last two months to ensure that it grew up straight and kept good spacing for lights and ornaments. Turns out she'd done too good of a job as that particular tree was a little too tall for the living room. We scoured the hillside and after 10 steps found a tree that was paying better attention to Susie's pep-talks. Susie gave the tree a big hug to let it know it had to endure some sawing before it could come home with us.



For some reason, i am physically unable to cutdown a Christmas tree, so i hacked at the trunk for a while, then had to have Sus finish the job.



Fresh in my mind was a conversation that i should have borrowed Sean's cordless sawzall ... . Oh well, at least i can carry trees 20 steps before having to ask for assistance.





We paid the dues, threw the tree in the back of the truck and headed back home - again, but for the last time for this excursion. We got home and then my wish of using a sawzall came true as i cut a straight bottom for the tree - note to self though, use the correct blade next time.



After some pushing and shoving, we got the tree setup - next comes the decorating ...