Bringing home the Christmas tree

I actually started the morning with a second trip to cut trees for the Boy Scout lot.  We had already sold about half the Noble Firs we had cut the day before Thanksgiving and some of those were questionable looking for sale. So we went off to Canby to the Hamels property and cut another 120 trees. The weather gods continued to shine upon me.  We had a record 3 inches of rain the previous day and it was still raining when I woke up. The weather cleared from 9-11:30 as we were cutting, and as I put the padlock on the gate, the clouds slowly blocked the sun. 

Anyway, I had gotten a 7-ft tree for us and a 5-ft tree for Pop. When I arrived home, I called up to Delaney to come see the tree. I had the 5-ft tree and for the brief moment when Delaney looked at the tree, the look on her face was priceless. Not a scraggly Charlie Brown Christmas tree, but it was shorter than her.