U-cut

We had planned to go ski today, but despite a fantastic weather over Portland, Mt Hood was in the clouds and a strong blizzard was blowing over the Meadows ski resort where we planned to go to. Additionally it seemed the road was deep in the snow and I haven't purchased chains yet. Instead we decided to stay where the nice weather was and we went to the Beck's farm to get ourselves a Christmas tree. The farm was in a pretty rural area, near Oregon city south of Portland. We started getting a view on Mt Hood as we headed there but it still looked quite stormy over there.


I was worried we would have difficulties finding the farm, but as we were heading off the highway we crossed dozen of signs for various tree farms. Once there we enjoyed the American quality service. They provide you with a saw, a piece of cardboard so you can kneel without getting muddy, they have a machine to shake your tree so you won't spread too many needles, another one to put a net around the tree, and another one to drill the bottom of the tree so you can attach it to a stand (sold on the spot as well).

Once home M started to decorate the tree with whatever we had from last year in Israel. It became obvious quite fast that we clearly didn't have enough. After a stop at Fred Meyer, we had more than enough and she could work hard at it.