It has been a tradition for many years in our family, that Dan takes the boys out to get a Christmas tree on the mountain. Well this year we almost waited too long, but I was insisting that we needed a real tree for our Christmas. So...with Rodney volunteering to take them in his 4 wheel drive truck, they headed to the mountain with the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls. They hadn't even made it to the main mountain road before they realized that they couldn't get to the trees that way. The snow was coming down thick and there was already so much on the road that hadn't been plowed, that it was impossible to go that way. They circled around town and went down to the turn at Shirttail Corner and were finally able to find a road that was clear enough they felt that it would be safe to try going that way. In spite of being sent out in a blizzard to get a tree, they managed to bring home a really beautiful one. I went clear to the ceiling, but it turned out really nice.
With help from some little grandkids doing the bottom, and teenage boys doing the upper parts, it looks really nice.
I especially like all the little pinecones covering the trees. Ahh the smell of Pine!! Now we are ready for Christmas!
It has been a tradition for many years in our family, that Dan takes the boys out to get a Christmas tree on the mountain. Well this year we almost waited too long, but I was insisting that we needed a real tree for our Christmas. So...with Rodney volunteering to take them in his 4 wheel drive truck, they headed to the mountain with the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls. They hadn't even made it to the main mountain road before they realized that they couldn't get to the trees that way. The snow was coming down thick and there was already so much on the road that hadn't been plowed, that it was impossible to go that way. They circled around town and went down to the turn at Shirttail Corner and were finally able to find a road that was clear enough they felt that it would be safe to try going that way. In spite of being sent out in a blizzard to get a tree, they managed to bring home a really beautiful one. I went clear to the ceiling, but it turned out really nice.
With help from some little grandkids doing the bottom, and teenage boys doing the upper parts, it looks really nice.
I especially like all the little pinecones covering the trees. Ahh the smell of Pine!! Now we are ready for Christmas!
2 comments:
All our lives we have had the same tradition. There is nothing better than the smell of fresh pine at Christmas time. We did this until the last year we lived in Price. The tree we cut down that year was so full of sap that by the time Christmas was over there was a large amount of pine sap on the living room carpet. Since that time we found a real nice Christmas Tree that looks very real and we just add pine sent for the smell. Love Mike
Thank you Heather for your comment on my last blog. I was wondering since his last name was Jones if he was a relative. That makes it even more personal to me, he was one of a few scouts that made what happened possible. Mike
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