The Beginning of the End for Christmast Trees 2008

After the trees have been unbundled

Looking toward the cashout booth

Lot as the trees are coming in

Cecile & Betty keeping the count

Yes, we got the entire truck load

We have been very neglectful of this blog for the last two months. We have been busy but the biggest reason is that nothing much has been happening with us. We have been parked at the Pumpkin/Christmas tree lot since late September. Pumpkin season was, as usual, pretty boring...although we were busier than last year. Since pumpkin season finished we have mainly been working on setting up the lot for Christmas trees and doing the finishing work on our pegs and jokers sets. Sales have been fairly brisk for the pegs & jokers. We have been having a tough time keeping up with the demand for the standard sets. If we were not going to be busy running the Christmas tree lot for the next three weeks, selling a bunch of P & J sets would be a very good thing. We will have to wait and see what happens with the sales.

On Tuesday, Nov 25, we received our first load of trees...650 altogether which represents about 20% of what we will sell all season. The trees look much better this year than they did last year. It probably has to do with the fact that they have had more rain up in Oregon over the past twelve months. Hopefully people will appreciate the improved quality. Today was our first day of business. Still not very busy but sales were up from last year. We sold several of our big trees. Most of the big ones will be gone within the next six or seven days. Since the season is a bit shorter this year, we are expecting much busier weekends. That's a good thing as it makes the days go by so much quicker. I look at today as the beginning of the end...of the Christmas tree sales season, of course.

Tonight we go over to the owner's main lot at the San Mateo Expo Center for a Thanksgiving dinner put on for all of the managers. I say I'm not going to stuff myself but I probably will anyway. I do like a good Thanksgiving meal!

Happy Thanksgiving to any and all who read this!!!

Gary & Cecile
ain't life grand!!