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Our First Colorado Christmas Tree
By PK | December 12, 2008
When does a Christmas Tree begin to look good? Just like the old bar saying…the longer it took, the better they looked. It was a chilly evening by the time we completed our list of things to do in town when we decided it was time to get the tree. It was early evening we got to our destination and it was 28 degrees. We had a tree all picked out from our earlier hiking, but we were faced with one to two feet of snow. Not easy hiking conditions!
After 100 feet of uphill trampling through deep snow, our hopes diminished rapidly. Then after a quarter-mile, it was ‘just find one decent and let’s get out of here’. And so, was our demise.
It is our $10.00 tree. You can purchase a Christmas Tree permit through the DOW and cut your own fresh Colorado Pine. Certain requirements are needed, so check with your local DOW.
Now I didn’t make him work that hard….
We stopped several times to rest. Like this time, when we stopped to take pictures of me pretending to drag the tree. *grin*
On the way home, we got quite a surprise as a cow elk was grazing along the road.
She’s a beauty!
I’ve decorated this $10.00 tree and shall dub it ‘Our Recession Christmas Tree 2008′.
Cheap holiday ornaments shall complete our ‘Recession’ look, along with homemade raffia bows, country-style.
And then the ‘when times were better’ ornaments bought when times were better.
His and Hers Cowboy Hats…
And our favorite, a Bull Elk. What else did you expect?
So ends our experience of cutting a Colorado Christmas Tree. It has gave me a humbling feeling with this ‘Recession’ Tree and we are still debating, “What the hell did we see in this tree?” When does a Christmas tree begin to look good? I’d say after 45 minutes into 1 to 2 feet of snow heading uphill!
Merry Christmas, Ya’ll
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December 13th, 2008 at 2:12 am
A ‘Treemendous’ effort and well worth it. Love the his and her cowboy hats - Yahoo! Out tree which is going up this weekend, it is some 40 cm high on a little shelf in the kitchen, normal for Bulgarian homes, most Bulgarian I know don’t have one in the house at all, especially in the villages - it cost money! Do your pine needles fall off - I remember it was a nightmare clearing these up off the carpet some years back in England when we got one?
December 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
That looks like fun while getting some good leg work. our tree looks very nice.