The date is December 6th. Russ and I put Gabriel to take a nap and told the boys we would be back soon. We wanted to get the Christmas Tree. A quick trip to Lowes and we'll be right back.
Negative.
We hit up Lowes and look thru all the skinny trees. Russ pulled a few out and banged the stump on the ground, in an attempt to get each tree to fluff out a bit. It wasn't working for me. I tried it a few times too, the trees are a lot heavier then I thought. After about 20 minutes of looking we decided that maybe we should support out local farmers and try the place up on Rosemont near the church.
Well, it was muddy and cold. We looked thru trees that ranged from $65 to $150. WhOa. I'm all for supporting our local farmers but isn't there supposed to be a better deal when you go local? Then to make matters worse ... Ken and Barbie showed up with their perfect three children in a nice black Escalade. Their kids started running around the lot and the dad was calling after them with a camera... "Suzie, smile for Daddy. Billy, smile for Daddy." He looked like a dork. I looked at Russ ... he could see the twitch in my eye and we immediately left the lot to go to Jack Frost on Holland Road.
Getting to this place is hard enough. You have to drive up Dam Neck, do a U-Turn and then right on Holland just to get here. Jeez ... We pull up and they come out to greet us, I guess they weren't that busy. The lady asks us what size and we tell her 6 - 7 feet. She points out a few and lets us know that she'll be inside if we need her. Again ... I wasn't feeling anything in this lot ... so we decided to just suck it up and get a fake one this year. Why not ...
BACK TO LOWES WE GO!!!!
When we pulled up we decided to look at the prices for the 7 - 8 feet trees one last time. WOW ... only $30. I look at Russ and we are off. It might as well have been two kids in a toy store. We're looking really hard at the different trees. We finally find one. It was beautiful and hidden behind all the skinny trees. (Even in Nature the big ones are never seen and the skinny bitches are all up front) We take it to the front and they only charged us $21 ... I shot Russ a hard stare so he would keep his BIG MOUGH SHUT! Cashiers fault not mine if she undercharges us. They even WRAP it up for you! We also got a fake wreath for the front door and a Holiday door mat.
ALL FOR THE PRICE OF A LOCAL Christmas Tree.
Next year ... we'll go to Lowes.
Negative.
We hit up Lowes and look thru all the skinny trees. Russ pulled a few out and banged the stump on the ground, in an attempt to get each tree to fluff out a bit. It wasn't working for me. I tried it a few times too, the trees are a lot heavier then I thought. After about 20 minutes of looking we decided that maybe we should support out local farmers and try the place up on Rosemont near the church.
Well, it was muddy and cold. We looked thru trees that ranged from $65 to $150. WhOa. I'm all for supporting our local farmers but isn't there supposed to be a better deal when you go local? Then to make matters worse ... Ken and Barbie showed up with their perfect three children in a nice black Escalade. Their kids started running around the lot and the dad was calling after them with a camera... "Suzie, smile for Daddy. Billy, smile for Daddy." He looked like a dork. I looked at Russ ... he could see the twitch in my eye and we immediately left the lot to go to Jack Frost on Holland Road.
Getting to this place is hard enough. You have to drive up Dam Neck, do a U-Turn and then right on Holland just to get here. Jeez ... We pull up and they come out to greet us, I guess they weren't that busy. The lady asks us what size and we tell her 6 - 7 feet. She points out a few and lets us know that she'll be inside if we need her. Again ... I wasn't feeling anything in this lot ... so we decided to just suck it up and get a fake one this year. Why not ...
BACK TO LOWES WE GO!!!!
When we pulled up we decided to look at the prices for the 7 - 8 feet trees one last time. WOW ... only $30. I look at Russ and we are off. It might as well have been two kids in a toy store. We're looking really hard at the different trees. We finally find one. It was beautiful and hidden behind all the skinny trees. (Even in Nature the big ones are never seen and the skinny bitches are all up front) We take it to the front and they only charged us $21 ... I shot Russ a hard stare so he would keep his BIG MOUGH SHUT! Cashiers fault not mine if she undercharges us. They even WRAP it up for you! We also got a fake wreath for the front door and a Holiday door mat.
ALL FOR THE PRICE OF A LOCAL Christmas Tree.
Next year ... we'll go to Lowes.
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