Northern Kentucky Real Estate Blog

Everyone has a favorite Christmas tree lot. Sometimes it’s the guy in the corner of the parking lot with lights strung up with 2×4′s. It’s been many years but as a kid we used to trek through the hills the weekend before Christmas until we found the perfect tree. I remember one particular year that Mom, or maybe it was Dad, had the brilliant idea that we would dig one up and replant it in the yard in January. I must have been 5 or 6 years old but I clearly remember Dad loading the trunk with shovels, a pick ax, an old tarp and mom filling a thermos with hot chocolate and one with coffee. So Dad and I set out in the 1968 Oldsmobile Delta 88 on a Saturday morning adventure. Of course the frozen soil was has hard as concrete, a natural grown pine tree has extremely deep roots, and a 6 foot tree always turns out to be 10 feet when you have the root ball attached at the bottom. (insert scene from the movie Christmas Vacation here). It was way past dark, a full 6-7 hours after we found the perfect tree when we arrived back at home. Mom was ready to send out a search party and was none to happy until she realized that Dad was way past the point of totally losing his temper. Knowing fully, by this point, that the perfect tree was never going to fit in the living room unless we… yes, you guessed it. We took a saw and cut the roots off. I learned some new words that day that Mom was none to happy about. I think that was our last “live tree”. After that adventure it was quite obvious that paying the extra for a tree lot tree, cut or live, was worth every penny.

Those childhood memories were great for reminiscing but we’ve created new memories at a great little local Christmas tree lot where selecting a tree is easy, the folks are friendly as family and your shouldn’t have to worry about your toes being frost bitten. Our favorite Tree lot the Deaton’s Nursery and Florist in Independence, Ky, just north of Simon Kenton High School.

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