Ten years ago, me and my friend Sluggy figured out that we both loved Christmas and secretly wanted to go out and dork up the holiday season. We lived in Davis and drove out to Winters to one of the only cut-your-own-tree lots we could find. It was totally weird!
Since the weather isn't that cold in Winters, it was sunny and kind of warm while we wondered around and tried to find a tree we liked. There was a tractor thingy that was dressed up like a sleigh and it would drive around and pick up your tree if you wanted it. The scary thing was that it was blasting the most neurotic Christmas music, like something out of Willy Wonka.
Once we got the trees in our houses, there were tons of sappy bugs all over it, since these evergreens weren't really made for the warm weather. But bugs be damned! We were going to enjoy those hard won trees!
So, 10 years later, every year without fail, we drive out to find ourselves the best of the weird trees out there! I can't stand to see those horrible Christmas tree lots with cone-shaped trees that all look the same, like they were shaped that way.
We started dragging our other girl friends out with us, and now it's just tradition. Breakfast at he Buttercup Pantry in Placerville, wine tasting, tree cutting at our undisclosed favorite Apple Hill location, beers at Jack Russell and Z pies for dinner.
It is one of my favorite days of the year and always having a unique little sparse tree that I cut down myself has got to be the best part of the holidays!
I know that the more green thing to do is buy a live tree, but our little farm we go to is just a wild bit of hillside that they let grow however it grows! I thinks it's the best of both worlds.
Since the weather isn't that cold in Winters, it was sunny and kind of warm while we wondered around and tried to find a tree we liked. There was a tractor thingy that was dressed up like a sleigh and it would drive around and pick up your tree if you wanted it. The scary thing was that it was blasting the most neurotic Christmas music, like something out of Willy Wonka.
Once we got the trees in our houses, there were tons of sappy bugs all over it, since these evergreens weren't really made for the warm weather. But bugs be damned! We were going to enjoy those hard won trees!
So, 10 years later, every year without fail, we drive out to find ourselves the best of the weird trees out there! I can't stand to see those horrible Christmas tree lots with cone-shaped trees that all look the same, like they were shaped that way.
We started dragging our other girl friends out with us, and now it's just tradition. Breakfast at he Buttercup Pantry in Placerville, wine tasting, tree cutting at our undisclosed favorite Apple Hill location, beers at Jack Russell and Z pies for dinner.
It is one of my favorite days of the year and always having a unique little sparse tree that I cut down myself has got to be the best part of the holidays!
I know that the more green thing to do is buy a live tree, but our little farm we go to is just a wild bit of hillside that they let grow however it grows! I thinks it's the best of both worlds.
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