Liz: I didn't know there were such things as Christmas Tree farms
Kurt: Where did you think stores got their Christmas Trees from?
Liz: I just thought they went out into the woods and cut some down, like in Christmas Vacation.
Needless to say, we got our Christmas Tree this weekend. From a Christmas Tree Farm. In Pennsylvania. We got a saw, rode a tractor out to where the Blue Spruce trees were, picked one out, cut it down, drug it out to the road, loaded it on the trailer, and watched Kurt and his dad strap it to the top of our Minivan. Then we drove home to MD, cut a couple feet off the bottom (I thought we had taller ceilings...oops), got it set up in the living room, and then watched as the kids decorated it. Something I learned along the way - Blue Spruce are spikey!! They are pretty though. Overall it was a fun experience and now I can say that I've cut down my own Christmas Tree.
Kurt: Where did you think stores got their Christmas Trees from?
Liz: I just thought they went out into the woods and cut some down, like in Christmas Vacation.
Needless to say, we got our Christmas Tree this weekend. From a Christmas Tree Farm. In Pennsylvania. We got a saw, rode a tractor out to where the Blue Spruce trees were, picked one out, cut it down, drug it out to the road, loaded it on the trailer, and watched Kurt and his dad strap it to the top of our Minivan. Then we drove home to MD, cut a couple feet off the bottom (I thought we had taller ceilings...oops), got it set up in the living room, and then watched as the kids decorated it. Something I learned along the way - Blue Spruce are spikey!! They are pretty though. Overall it was a fun experience and now I can say that I've cut down my own Christmas Tree.
The map that tells you where the different trees are
One of the trailers that took people out to the various tree lots (if you didn't want to walk)
What a Christmas Tree farm looks like
An 11 year old with a saw, and a 4 year old... what could possibly go wrong
Dragging the spikey tree back out to the road
She actually saws better than I do
Unloading the trailer
The final product. We decided to keep it simple and only used our "special" ornaments this year.