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grumpygy
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At least to me. I live here in the heart of Christmas tree land.
They grow naturally all around.
So then why does every corner in town have a tree lot on them. if money is so short go get a permit to cut one from the Forest.
Me I just do not put up one.
They grow naturally all around.
So then why does every corner in town have a tree lot on them. if money is so short go get a permit to cut one from the Forest.
Me I just do not put up one.
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I love getting out looking for one...I remember falling down in the snow more than once, getting so cold, but had to get the "right tree" according to my daughter....we always got it, and came home to hot chocolate and good times....
Now?...I still come home to hot chocolate and so many good times and lots of love, but its an artifical tree....
wood heat, by the end of the Christmas season, they're sooooo dry and
messy that we finally went artificial.
I always enjoyed the finding/cutting of them though.[:)]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
I cut it down and drug it to the truck even though it had no branches on one side.
I told her it was that tree or no tree.
The only good part was it sat right next to the wall so it didn't take up to much room.
We go to the U-Cut place now.
$25 and she gets to wander all over looking for the perfect tree.
My sister in law found the perfect tree one year.
My brother in law dropped a 50 foot tree so she could have the top 6 foot.
We did burn the rest next year in hunting camp.
Jon
if the permit is 25; add to that the gas for the truck, gas for the saw, the time necessary to find a place to cut a tree, get there, cut it, get back and your over 50 bucks. i'll just go to teh normally adandoned lot at the corner and pick one thats had all that other stuff done for me, thank you.
Maybe someday when I am old I'll get an artificial tree or stop going to get my own. It isn't about the money.
we spent 6 hours wandering around looking at trees, but none were "quite right".(according to my lovely bride)
by now, our hands and feet were numb and i kept dropping the hand saw.
On the way home i stopped at a tree lot and bought the first on i saw.
merry christmas honey.
A few years back I saw a tree that I liked. It was the top six feet of a 24 foot tree.
I gave my girlfriend the bow saw, and I began climbing the tree. I got about 15 feet high, and the tree bent right over to the ground. I hopped off, still holding on to the trunk. My girlfriend cut off the top, and I let go.
The tree sprang back into place, it was now 18 feet high, and had a flat top.
I guess the statue of limitations is up, I will tell the story of bandit tree cutting.
When I lived in central Georgia, my buddy was a big duck hunter, always cruising around the woods in the state forest hunting the creeks and beaver ponds.
He told me he had found the secret government Christmas tree stash.
He found a plot of a hundred manicured trees, growing way back in the woods. He learned that they sent prison inmates out to manicure these trees, fertilize them, etc. Then various government officials would get a tree for free.
He said, if I would drive, he would get me a tree.
I let him off about 8pm, on the Vinson Highway. He hiked off into the dark with a little flashlight and a bow saw.
An hour later, I returned to the spot. My buddy was hiding in the bushes. He threw two trees into my truck. He was laughing like hell.
The tag on his tree said "Captain XXXXX, State Patrol."
The tag on my tree said "Warden XXXXX, State Prison."
We thought that was pretty funny, but, the officers still had 98 more trees to choose from.
The next year, I asked my buddy if he wanted to get some more free trees. He declined, he figured he has used up all his luck the last year.