Getting Our Tree

Since we were in Indiana for Thanksgiving, we decided it would be smart to get our tree there. So we googled tree farms and found the Whit's Family Christmas tree Farm.

Just 7 mi from mom's house, it was the perfect place to get our tree. A relatively small operation, it is literally family operated, starting with the teenagers that do the grunt work, mom heads up wreath making and grandpa owns the lot and handed over the saw for us to go cut down our own tree.

It was the perfect day and Stanley was in heaven as he ran off toward the field of trees.

It was a beautiful day, just cold enough to freeze the mud and feel like winter, but sunny and happy to be outside.

But what kind of tree to choose and which one of what kind? Oh so many trees. And aparantly he's got a fraction of what he used to have!

There were quite a few of the kind that I recognize as what we usually get, very full branches, med/long needles, round happy trees. Well, I wanted something a little different. I liked the woodsier looking ones. The ones with short needles and fewer branches, so you can see the trunk a little.

So then when I found the perfect, not too wide tree, I got to cut it down. Well, I let Mike finish it up, but really I did most of it myself.

Then we had to carry it back.
And of course I had chosen the most expensive type of tree, the canaan fir tree. But it was still less than we spent on our tree last year, and this one is taller. Try $55 last year for just 5 ft to $35 for 6ft this year!

Here's Mike checking the ropes one last time before we get on the highway, even though the tree was a managable size, we still couldn't have taken it on the train (or our dog), so a big thanks for Walter for letting us borrow his car. We couldn't have gotten our tree without it. So we got him a wreath, I hope he likes it.

And all that running at the tree farm really tuckered Stanley out (well and the chill pill our vet perscribed for car rides), so he slept all the way home, didn't even whine while we parked!

Home sweet home! Oh how delicious you will smell with our tree inside! Stay tuned for decorating for the holidays...