Well, my wife and I have fed big groups three times this Christmas. Mostly kids, spouses, grandkids and significant others. I think the big oak extension table I bought for $4 at a Sportsman's Association auction 49 years ago, seated 13 the first night, nine the second and 14 the third.
We are still debating whether to invite them all back for a New Years Day dinner. New Years Eve we are reserving for ourselves.
I did cut a Christmas Tree. Aside from yule festivities, the tree farm provides and annual check of my lungs that were seriously damaged by a heart medicine I was told would keep me well.
Good news. I made it up a steep hill dragging a 7-foot fir tree a bit easier than last year. But these things are relative. Last year I was wading through a foot of snow. This year there were only a few inches.
I used to harvest my trees on a more accessible woodlot that I owned. But I had to sell that to pay bills and to eliminate the mortgage on a house I had built for a son.
Extra good news. Half the wood lot I sold is being donated back to my town trust. The town land trust lands are where I spend most of the time these days, building and maintaining trails, except when I'm raising money for the Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust.
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Originally Posted by Ron Haven
