What a super cold day! We finished up with a blizzard-like snowstorm late last night, but now that the snow has ended, we are left with a bitter cold wind. Still, we all bundled up in our snowmobile suits and heavy gloves to head to the woods to find a tree. One of our boys took a snowmobile ahead of us to break a path through the snow because it was so deep, then followed by Farmer Rick with a plow on the four wheeler. Behind them followed mom with the horse harnessed up and ready to drag the tree back. Even with the path broke by the snowmobile and four wheeler, both horse and driver were huffing and puffing, dragging ourselves through the very deep snow! Farmer Rick ended up picking up stragglers along the way, piling them on the back of the four wheeler, as they were getting quite tired from trugging through the snow! Luckily, I had been in the woods before the snowstorm hit to pick out a tree. Two days prior, I took one of the geldings to the woods to scout one out so that we could save time and energy since I knew the storm was coming.
We quickly spotted our "Charlie Brown" tree and one of my boys cut it down. I attached it to the logging chain and away we went, dragging the tree behind us, right up to the back door of the house! Boy, am I ever glad we had that tree picked out ahead of time! ALL were cold and wiped out from trudging through the snow. Even though the tree is rather thin, these have been pretty much the norm throughout the years and our family is used to them. A very "spacious" tree harvested from our swamp, but loved by all!
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