We have about 6000 trees today and are going to plant 500 this spring. It takes from July 1 to August 30 to prune the trees in my spare time. Next comes painting which is about 3 days of Leprechaun clothes and green underwear. The stain is permanent. If it dries for over 10 minutes it will only come off with sandpaper of a sand blaster. I have one John Deere mower that is tree green, not John Deere green but that's OK, its the one Tootsie ran into the REC pole and had to go to the Redneck Body Shop.

Mowing takes about 18 hours with 2 mowers. I have built most all of the equipment that we use to take care of the trees. We have implement carriers mounted on the back of the mowers to carry sprayers, a home built air mist sprayer to cover each tree with insecticide or fungicide which has to be done at least 3 times yearly. We also have a tree shaker made out of fence row materials that works as well as there $3500.00 ones and I have $60.00 in mine.

I don't know how many more years we will be able to take care of the trees but you can bet as long as we can we will have a ball and provide the community with a little piece of the Christmas Spirit that is so important to us.