We came here in 1974 and for the first two years we got a Forest Service permit to cut down our Christmas tree. Then we bought the land in 1976 and cut down our tree on the land for 35 years…until the 2011 fire burned all the trees.
Here are a few of my favorite pictures of the tree cutting:
Getting Christmas tree 12/25/1980. Andrew cutting tree
Getting Christmas tree 12/25/1980. Kaitlin checking out Christmas tree
Getting Christmas tree up on land for 2001.
1987 Kaitlin cutting down Christmas tree
1987 Andrew cutting down Christmas tree
Christmas 1987-getting Christmas tree up on land
1987 Getting Christmas Tree-Kaitlin and Andrew
Kaitlin with Christmas tree
We didn’t go for the best looking trees, we picked the ones in spots that needed thinning and we loved them.
November 28, 2021
and That’s exactly what we all LOVE about you and your family!
wonderful pictures of wonderful memories here. xo
Thank you. 🙂
Love how you picked your trees.
It was friendly.
I love this tradition. It makes the tree all the more special.
Yes. 🙂
What a nice tradition.
Yes. 🙂
Love that second picture of young Kaitlin eyeing the tree. Wonderful family tradition!
We have wonderful memories of it. 🙂
What fun! I think my favorite is the first one. What kind of tree will you have this year?
We don’t have one down here any more. Just the one on the roof up there.
In the last picture, it’s looks like Kaitlin is saying “see a trophy” 🙂
what lovely memories…
🙂
There is just something special about going and cutting your own tree!
We agree!
the last one looks like what mother always bought, it had lots of limbs in one place, none in others was never perfect and we loved them. the ones that were not perfect were half the price of the perfect. sometimes daddy would tie up limbs to make them fit and they put the tree with the no limbs side to the corner of the fireplace that could not be seen. when we were done decorating it Mother would sit on the sofa, the same one for my whole life and say
“This is the beautiful tree we have ever had” and we would all roar with laughter
Yes! We did think about how the tree would be placed when we picked it out. Much more fun than getting supposedly perfect trees. I love your mother’s attitude. 🙂
The pictures are so lovely. So sorry to hear about the fire.
Thank you. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem up there and we humans suppressed them for too long. Then when fires do come they are devastating.
We still love the land and have ten more years of good memories.