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!
2 comments:
The lot looks beautiful. Would you mind delivering a 2-3 footer to us at Park Sierra!? Just kidding. Well, we are going to look for a little one because I really miss the smell of a tree at Christmas time. But good luck in the days flying by, and Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Happy Thanksgiving...by the time the trees are all gone, you will be ready for a mega rest...come visit us in Florida...We're leaving Maine on the 20th of Dec. and have an extra bedroom ready for you. Pace yourselves...Happy Holidays..
Love,
Joni
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