Reflecting the stark undecorated removal of God from their holiday so well.
Posted on 11/15/2024 11:52:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Oh the weather outside is frightful — enough to kill off Christmas trees.
Yuletide firs are dying from a severe drought that’s plagued parts of the Northeast for weeks — with some farmers losing 25% of this year’s crop and predicting a future shortage, according to WBZ-TV.
“They’re all yellow on the inside. The needles are falling off,” said Chris Moran, who runs Vandervalk Farm in Mendon, Massachusetts. “Without water we can’t grow anything.” Dry weather killed roughly 500 of his 2,700 Christmas tree seedlings — fragile, 1-foot-tall babies — after they were planted past spring, he said.
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Climate change is now endangering Christmas Trees.
Add this to the list (long list) of insane liberal theologies.
Celebrate Christmas right, kill a tree!............
Translation:Hold on to your wallet.
Too many hikers and S’more fans peeing on them. The new SUVs should come with a small trailer with a Port-a-potty on it. People are still in the Dempanic “vacation” mode and spending all their time in the National Parks and National Forests. They’re loving them to death. I read a weird post -Trump reelection article yesterday where a schmuck came up with a good idea of getting rid of the National Park Service and turning them over to venders to run. Motel owners, Restaurant, etc. What a jerk. You aren’t going to find a Denny’s or Motel 6 franchisee who is going to want to plow the snow and pump the crap out of the restrooms up in Yellowstone or Grand Canyon.
Reflecting the stark undecorated removal of God from their holiday so well.
Balsam Fir trees are grown in northern NH, VT, ME, NY and Canada.
They cut the trees starting the last week in October. They are cut on TREE FARMS where they have nice neat rows of trees that have been pruned to that perfect conical shape since they were a year or two old. It takes about eight to ten years before they are cut.
Then they load about 700-900 of them on a flatbed truck and send them south to the cities. There is a lot next to my office here in Nashua. The same guy rents the lot every year. He owns a tree farm up north. He lives in a camper right next door the whole month of November. He started setting up a couple weeks ago. As of today he is ready to start selling.
Far out. I starting using a real looking fake tree a number of years ago. Not to save da environment but so I can keep it up until June if I feel like it. I do love real trees though. I use a fake one for my own convenience.
There hasn’t been any significant snowfall here in the
Northeast for the last couple of years.
Marko
Obviously Trump’s fault...
About eight years ago I threw in the towel and bought a 7.5’ fake tree at Lowes. The old lady had been pushing for it for years.
Now, I pull it out of the bag(lights still on it) the Friday after Thanksgiving and leave it up until some time in January.
Notice these are seedlings. Conifers have a tap root that will always reach water. Mature pines here in NC are not affected by drought like other types of trees.
That’s where I’m at. I’m not against real trees. I just like the fake one for the convenience.
I have a ten foot Fraser Fir out in front of the house.
I put lights on that too around the same weekend.
The issue now is that it is a little too tall for the string of lights. Plus I only have an eight foot step ladder to reach the top.
Democrats will try to find a way to make it his fault.
That’s one department I wouldn’t have a problem keeping and making more efficient.
What worries me is the law of averages.
We have some pines on our property, true Charlie Brown Christmas trees.
Last year we set one up ad decorated it. And laughed about it.
People could always set up a nice manger scene for Christmas. Keep the real reason for Christmas front and center.
We had real trees from our 7 acres. Mostly pine, and cedar. My gran favored cedar while we went with pine trees. It was just in the last 20 years that we switched to an artifical tree. Every year I would get a cold that would sometime turn into bronchitis. Turns out I’m allergic to pine trees. Go figure I’ve lived in the Pine Barrens of South Jersey all my life.
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