So yesterday, Rory and I went out Christmas Tree hunting. Apparently, the only place to buy a Christmas Tree around here is the local grocery store, and they wanted $35! We went to the forest service instead, and they sold us a permit for $10 to go out and hunt our own Christmas Tree. They sent us out to a canyon with a one way road covered in snow that we had to carefully navigate through until we thought we found a good place to look for a tree. Once we parked, Rory, Jackson, and I started wandering through the forest from Charlie Brown Christmas Tree to Charlie Brown Christmas Tree trudging through the snow. We went from one section of the woods to another…and then across the road and into more woods. We finally found a tree that might be worth cutting down and bringing home…I think Rory was starting to get tired of wandering through the woods and his boots were filled with snow. While he got the saw ready to start cutting the tree down, I continued to wander and found OUR tree. It was extremely tall, and was growing less then a foot from the tree next to it which meant that a quarter of the tree would probably be bare…but the top half of it grew alone, and that’s the one I wanted. We got the saw out again and started cutting into the trunk. We took turns running the hand saw through the tree and when it was about to come down, Rory pushed it away from us. We ended up having to cut another couple of feet off of the bottom before dragging it through the woods and back to the car which was a feat of its own. Then, we loaded it onto the car, tied it with twine and took a look at what we had. Our tree was HUGE. It barely fit on the car. The tip of it was almost dragging on the ground!! Needless to say, we drove home slowly.
When we got home, we unloaded the tree, brought it in only to find out that It didn’t fit, brought it back out, and trimmed it from the top and bottom. We brought it back in, stood it up, and started decorating to Christmas music on Pandora radio.
Here are the pictures from our excursion.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures!!!
Happy Holidays!
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