Lazy J Tree Farm – Oh Christmas Tree

We went to pick out our Christmas tree yesterday late afternoon at Lazy J Tree Farm.  I wrote about them in October when we took our garden remains there to compost.

It was our first time cutting down our own tree and we made it an experience.  Put in a Christmas CD on the way (Christmas season doesn’t officially start for me until I’ve heard the song Santa Baby, Kellie Pickler’s version of it is my favorite that I’ve heard so far) to get in the mood.  We pulled onto the farm and we were greeted by a young man who provided us the basic information and handed us a saw.  Then we drove down the dirt road and it’s about 6o or 80 acres, I’ve heard both figures, but it’s a LOT of trees to pick from.  We searched for about 30 minutes and never crossed direct paths with anyone, even though we saw about 10 different people parked there when we were there.  Then we found the one we wanted and my husband cut it down, we loaded it up and brought it back to the barn where they measured it.   In the barn they have a cute store with Christmas goodies, gifts and wreaths.  Very festive.  There is a holiday event coming up there next Saturday.  When we left my husband and I both had the mind frame of why haven’t we done it this way before.

Lazy J Tree Farm, 225 Gehrke Road, open 8-4, (360) 457-5950, $6 a foot.

Close to sunset

This was around 4:30 last night. I thought the sky looked really cool against the mountains. 

Looking for a Pet?  Petfinder is a cool site to check out.  I saw a dog on there and I went to check him out yesterday at the humane society.  I don’t need another pet (always want one though!)  I left feeling depressed.  It’s hard seeing dogs like that, I hope they all find homes.   There was this little guy named Milo who I wanted to take home and would if I didn’t think he’d get adopted out easily.  Little Chihuahua mix, just sitting there shaking.  Next to him was a huge dog that non stop barked and lunged.  He’d look over at it shaking and back at me but he never barked or made a noise.  I adopted my Lab from the humane society 10 1/2 years ago when we just went for a “visit.”  I’m very thankful we went to visit that day.