The Bovine Bugle

Christmas tree lot is ready for business

As you may have guessed from yesterday's post, we'll be spending the next couple of weekends we will be spending in our Christmas tree field hoping to sell some of our sheared balsam firs and spruces. We haven't been open to sell trees for the last three years, so we are pretty excited. Getting ready for business last weekend took up a large share of the previous week.

Monday I called for gravel to fix up the parking area near the Christmas trees. Tuesday they delivered two loads of nice, stony gravel and I spread that around with the loader tractor. The unseasonably warm day, near 60 degrees, had finished melting the snow from last week and made the job of working on the parking area much easier. We trimmed brush that had grown up along the woods road over the past three years so that customers riding in the wagon to the trees wouldn't get whipped in the face by a branch or young sapling. And since our signs from three years ago were flaked and peeling, or being used for other things ( a wheelbarrow ramp), we had to make some new ones.

I've cleaned some lumber out of the small wagon we use to give rides, fastened the signs to a 2x4 frame, put new blades on the bow saws, and we're ready! We needed that dusting of snow again to make the trees look pretty!

--Jonathan, Howmars Farm
Franklin, Vermont

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Posted by Blogger Chris at December 7, 2005 04:44 PM