A few years ago, we got a real tree for Christmas and we loved it. The fresh scent of the tree is so nice. Last 2 years, we didn’t get a tree because we were out of the country. This Christmas, we’ll be staying put, so we decided to get a live tree again this year. Instead of buying the tree from those temporary tree stalls, we thought we should at least experience cutting our own tree once. After all they do have lots of Christmas tree farms here so off to the tree farm we went. 
At the Christmas tree farm, we were given a saw and then we were off on our own to choose our tree. There were different varieties of trees.
The difference between the varieties are the needles. This is the Douglas Fir, I think. The needles are thin and pretty soft.
This is the Fraser Fir. The needles are shorter and stubbier. We ended up choosing Fraser Fir because it doesn’t bend easily since the needles are firmer. So when we hang the ornaments, the branches doesn’t droop so much from the weight of the ornament.
After a long search, we finally found our tree!! The right height, right width, looks symmetrical, full bodied etc…. 
Saw…saw…saw….DH doing all the hard work.
TIMBER!!!!!
Tree’s all netted up and secured on the top of our car. Time to go…….
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November 28th, 2007 at 12:10 am
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