Valley View Christmas Trees - Pantano Lot - Tucson

Originally, we were going to set up the register at the RV under the awning like the other lots, but we soon decided that our 28' Trek awning wasn't nearly as big as their 40' 5th Wheel awnings, so we set up a small spot in the tent.

Surrounded by Trees

We got a few wreaths to sell as well

A new thing they decided to try this year was Flocking Trees. They wanted us to put out 10 trees to be flocked but we weren't sold on the idea and only gave them 6. 2 weeks later we ended up selling the last 4 at less than the regular price of an unflocked tree. My question - why Flock up a perfectly good Christmas Tree??

A whole bunch of Flocked up Trees.

Frosty at the Gate is a big hit he gets his photo taken a lot

Just when you think you have no more room for trees a semi tractor pulls in.

and gives us more

We just make more piles.

After our 1st big rain my table was directly under a major run-off from the tent roof so we decided to move it over the corner where it would be more protected and closer to the cutting station.



One morning I woke up and had to go outside to reset the breaker that had tripped. There were several cars in the lot. At first I thought we had a bunch of early shoppers but then saw the Radio and TV trucks and the Bus. It was a "Stuff the Bus" location a food pantry drive

We offered them some coffee and then gave them a couple of our trees for decoration and $5 off coupons for people that donated food.

Here's an 11 footer getting loaded up. Wish I had gotten shots of the 12 and 13 foot trees that went out the door.

They were going to put it on the roof of their car but Gary convinced them that they should use a truck if they had one.







The Crew. Chris, Fred, Mario, James and Brian (and Frosty). A really good group of guys.