Our newly flocked trees, getting the tree ready to put up in the lot, and decorating the shed

For those of you who remember what our tree lot looked like last year, this was hardly anything compared to the trees we got last year. I looked at that pile and thought, it won't take any time at all before we go through all those...little did I know how few we would really sell...

Our first load of trees

Looking at our lot from the driveway going into the church parking lot

On Tuesday, we left for Pleasanton, CA, which is in the San Francisco Bay area. We kind of slipped in at the last moment and when we got to our lot, there was a crew offloading all our trees. We went about getting set up in our new spot where we'll be for the next 5 weeks. After we did that, we lost no time getting the lot in shape. My job was getting the cash register, fax machine and credit card machine set up. I also got the decorations all out and started decorating in and around the shed. The big tent was already up, that was where we were going to put our flocked trees, as well as the wreaths and garland to protect it from the weather. The 2nd day we were there, Ron helped get all the trees up on the lot for our opening day which was the day after Thanksgiving. I think we sold 3 or 4 trees before that day ever arrived. One of our sister lots, down south in Saratoga and being managed by friends, John & Cathy Robnik, sold a lot more than that!

We met with friends, Ken & Sue Pace, who were also close by attending a chapter outing at a nearby RV park