Kashann and Clan

 When you live in the woods you ought to be able to walk out your back door and chop down your own Christmas tree, don't ya think? 

Someday that is my plan. But for now, we aren't allowed to do any chopping in these woods we are renting. 

And if you want to buy a tree it so happens that the pre-cut trees are a lot cheaper than chopping your own.  So we opted to let someone else do the chopping and saved us a few bucks. 

I keep noticing that it costs you more around here when you GET to do the work. The farmers here are masterminds that have duped the public. They have hyped up farming to the point that people pay just for the thrill of doing what us farmers used to call work.  

You can get a box of apples for $.69 cents conveniently at your corner store, but if you want to drive a half hour out of your way to our quaint little farm and walk around picking your own, that will cost you at least a dollar a pound. Or you can pick up the wormy apples on the ground for only $.75 cents a pound.

 We'll cut down your tree for you and save you time, labor and money but of course it will cost ya double if we let you have all the fun. 

I think Brent and I need to move the farming operation we left in the west out here.  Where people pay YOU to do YOUR work.  

I can't tell you how many thousands of apples have rotted in our orchard because the packing plant didn't want them and so we couldn't pay to get them picked. And out here they have convinced the masses into paying them to pick them up OFF YOUR GROUND. 

Anyways, this was just a simple Christmas tree post that got off track.

I am so happy to have our first live Christmas tree since Christmas 1996. We have been fake for all these years thanks to a stupid thrift center tree I bought that was always good enough.

Now our home smells all piney and festive and I am looking forward to a long month of picking up all those real live needles.