1036

We have them stacked just about everywhere. Early this morning, we received a truckload of 1036 trees. Good thing because we had sold more than half of the first load we received and we will probably sell over 800 more by the time Sunday is over. The first weekend in December is traditionally the biggest sales weekend of the season. We will probably be out on the lot for twelve hours each day and the time will be just a blur. Unfortunately our bodies will tell us how much we worked. Time is definitely going by quickly. Before we know it, it will be Christmas. Ho, Ho, Ho!

First of the Christmas Trees

We got our first load of Christmas trees yesterday, a total of about 650 trees (we thought it was going to be 850). The trees come wrapped up into nice neat little packages with lots of twine. We spent all of yesterday and most of the day today cutting off all of the twine and putting them in the proper display position in our racks. If all goes well, we will sell about half of them in the next four days. Monday we are scheduled to receive another semi-truck full of trees...about 700 this time. We will be keeping very busy for the next few weeks.

Cecile spent most of yesterday on her feet between helping our unloading employees get the trees to their proper location and doing the cashier side of the manager training in the afternoon. Gary did the training for the guys, dealing with all the outside aspects of the job. Anyway, Cecile was fully expecting a long day of soreness today because of yesterdays activity. Voila, there was none. She's keeping her fingers crossed that it just isn't delayed a day.

We officially open the lot tomorrow morning at 8am and will be hard at it until around 3pm. Hopefully it is very busy and the day goes by quick. Tomorrow night our bosses will be putting on a Thanksgiving spread for all of the managers.

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Christmas Tree Lot - Before

The Christmas tree lot is pretty well ready for the trees which are scheduled to arrive early on Tuesday morning...all 850 of them. Of course this will be only the first of several shipments of trees. When all is said and done and the season is over, we will have sold over 2,000 Christmas trees.

The first picture is of our Santa chair which was badly in need of refurbishing. Cecile put her summer hands-on painting lessons to good use and did a great job of bringing the chair back to life. The Santa chair is a favorite of families for photo memories of their trip to pick out their Christmas tree. When our trees arrive, we will frame the chair with fresh trees which will make for great photo opportunities. The second picture is a "before" picture of the lot without trees. I will post again with pictures after the trees arrive and are put into place.