Choose & Cut

Tuesday we decided to get a Christmas tree. We drove about an hour or so northeast of Asheville to Linville Falls. That's where most of the Christmas tree farms are except they don't call them Christmas tree farms here, they're known as a "Choose & Cut." Very simple. You choose and a Mexican cuts it down for you. All they have here are Frasier Firs. Aka the Cadillac of Christmas trees. The Frasier Fir trees only grow at high elevations so if you bought a Frasier Fir it probably came from North Carolina. Only they chose AND cut and YOU paid top dollar. Not trying to rub it in or anything but it was really strange going to cut down a Christmas tree and we had the air conditioning on in the car and we were sweatting as we walked around to choose so they could cut. It was over 70 degrees! Last time I went to a Christmas tree farm I nearly froze to death and had to carry Erin around (she was a bit smaller then) and I vowed I would never do it again. Come to think of it, a Mexican guy cut that tree for me, too...