Several years back, after the kids mostly left our house, we started going with a smaller tree, even just a table top model sometimes. Easier to set up and such. The present pile is much smaller and our room just fits well with a small tree.
So this year, wifey and I walked thru a lot full of really nice, locally grown Fraser Firs, which is the Cadillac tree in the east.
It was pouring the rain on Saturday after turkey day. $75-$125 was the range for most, and they were good lookin’ trees standing from 5’ up to around 10’.
I spotted one leaning against the tool shed that was obviously not a star. At 6’, it has a bent trunk, relatively sparse limbs, and only about a 3’ diameter. Me and Charlie Brown raced for it and he musta tripped on Linus’s blanket, ‘cause I got there first.
Proudly toting it over to the man, I asked him what he wanted for our poor little prize. Traffic was down that day in miserable weather, and the guy knew that he better get what he could from the dumb slug in front of him. Sensing the chance to atone for a lesser product, he cut his eyes at me and said, “20 bucks”, and was probably waiting for a counter offer. “She’ll take it, I told him”, quick like before he had second thoughts, and the rest is history.
Wifey worked her magic, with a little help from Linus, Lucy, and the gang and here we sit sipping coffee next to our beautiful tree on another glorious Christmas morning.
Happy Holiday’s and Merry Christmas, to all a y’all!,
