Teleidoscope

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Tree

Posted at 3:00 pm MST to Weather

The weather monday and Tuesday was bitterly cold, and they are predicting snow this evening and tomorrow and more bitter cold for the weekend. I ran out an hour ago to get my mail and finally buy my Christmas tree, and I seem to have timed it just right. I had dry roads, but now, half an hour after I put the tree into its stand, it is snowing pretty determinedly.

I bought my tree (a 6 foot Colorado Balsam) from the Big M Janitorial lot, where I have been getting my trees for years. I think they have their own tree farm: the trees have always been very fresh and held their needles well.

They seem to have a lot of trees left considering it is less than a week until Christmas. Last year I bought my tree earlier and the lot was more picked over: either I'm not the only one running late, or people aren't buying trees.

The weather this December has been unusually cold and snowy, though so far it is the mountains that are getting hammered. I hope we're not in for another winter like two years ago, when I had 5 foot drifts across my driveway for months.

I'm glad I decided not to get a ticket for the Revels show: if Sunday is as cold as they predict, I am not going to want to go out.

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