We cut down a Christmas tree at the Elgin Christmas Tree Farm on Saturday. I don't usually get our tree up so early in the season. But since we are leaving for Utah in 2 /12 weeks, I figured I'd enjoy it now.
It was a beautiful 60 degrees afternoon.
We rode the hay ride out to the field to find our tree. I love this place, they provide the saws for for cutting your tree, and the twine for tying it to the top of your car. In addition, they'll shake the tree to get rid of any loose stuff, or squirrels, and bag it up for you. They are a full service tree farm.
So we wandered around, up and down the rows of trees looking for just the right one. Unfortunately, the last few years of droughts here in Texas weren't too great for growing trees. Pickins were a little slim.
But we found one. Everyone got their 15 seconds of cutting the tree down.
And rather than wait for the wagon to come around again, we (or mostly Nate) hauled it back to the front of the farm.
We tied it on to the car, and that was that.
Christmas is officially underway!
We've never cut down a tree - it's either Home Depot - or we pay too much over at Immaculate Conception!!
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