Missing Willow Farm

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We picked out our Christmas tree this past weekend.  For those of you who don’t live where you can do this, which is pretty much anyone South of us, it’s an adventure.  I think we’re right on the edge of tree farm country.  We live about a mile from a Christmas tree farm that we tried two years ago.  Even though it was freshly cut the day after Thanksgiving, the needles fell like rain to the point it was basically a stick and a pile of needles and we had to take it down on December 23rd as it was a very sad fire danger.  Last year we cut down an evergreen that the prior homeowner planted too close to the house.   We just let it grow until it was tall enough to be our Christmas tree and last year was the year to bring it inside.  It had the sharpest needles of any tree I’ve ever seen and gave a puncture wound any time someone got near it.   We couldn’t wait to get that one down.  This year we went up the mountain to a spruce tree farm.  They are at a much higher elevation even though just 20 miles away and sell the real deal spruce.   Here’s hoping this one’s a winner!