Return-Path: Received: from A.SEI.CMU.EDU by A.CS.CMU.EDU; 6 Dec 85 17:59:26 EST Date: Friday, 6 December 1985 17:57:39 EST From: Sara.Moss@a.sei.cmu.edu To: bovik@a.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Christmas Tree Farm Message-ID: <1985.12.6.22.54.55.Sara.Moss@a.sei.cmu.edu> (This is forwarded from Tom Lane.) We always get our tree at a tree farm north of Butler (maybe 90 minutes drive from here). You scout around on their hillside, choose your tree, cut it down yourself (bring your own saw!), and lug it back down the hill to their bundling station. (Better bring a friend too, unless you want a real tiny tree.) They bundle the tree for no extra charge, making it much easier to tie to your car roof (or whatever). Prices are by height, and vary since they just judge 'em by eye. We usually buy about a nine or ten foot tree, and usually pay ten to twenty dollars if I recall rightly. Take Route 8 north to and through Butler. Not far north of Butler, you will pass a large shopping mall (Clearview Mall) on the right. (Like most new malls, it's hard to see from the road due to landscaped hills, but the signs are clear enough.) Just past Clearview, the road forks; Route 8 veers to the left, and a smaller road goes right. There's a Perkins Pancake House in the fork. Take the right-hand road. Proceed for two or three miles until you come to the tree farm. I don't recall the name of the place, but (at least on December weekends) it's readily identifiable by the vast quantity of cars parked along the sides of the road. The farm buildings are on the left, but the main tree areas (at least in past years) are on the right; the bundling machines may be set up on either side. (Last year they were at the buildings, so you had to carry your tree across the road... not the best layout.)