Angels in the snow

It's hard to believe it is almost Christmas, and time for the annual Christmas tree cutting party. We got a little snow just in time to make the event a little seasonal. It's been an extremely dry fall so far, and several of the ski areas delayed their openings due to lack of snow. This year Jaimie invited Shannon Bailey, our Aussie liason exchange student, to go with us. She was pretty excited having never done it before, and also wanting to get up in the mountains to see some snow. She also can wield a mean chainsaw! As always we go up around Central City to some property owned by our next door neighbor Becky. She is trying to thin the trees to help lessen the fire danger around her small cabin so we all cut down huge trees and crop the tops. The rest of the tree is cut up into firewood size logs.

We had a huge crowd this year. Becky's daughter recently moved back to Colorado from DC, and is living with her until they find a house. Also, Steve and Marcella brought their "grandkids".