One of my most favorite places around this time of the year to visit is the Fort Atkinson Nursery. Now it isn’t fancy and doesn’t have anything but just what they need, but it’s pretty cool. If you’re not familiar to where it actually is located in Fort, you will first see the signs on the main highway. Then after a couple of turns and more signs through the small town, you’ll come up to what looks like a private work shed. You might not know if they’re open or not, but then the ‘OPEN’ sign will catch your eye and you know that your in luck and head to the door.
The picture above is only 1/2 of the building, but it gives you the idea on how informal the nursery actually is. Once you open the door the smell of fresh pine trees just hits you. It’s a great smell and this time of the year it instantly brings back tons of memories on past Christmas’s.
Wreaths range from a couple of feet wide to a huge size that fits on a large building.
They flock a lot of Christmas trees. Some white and I’ve seen burgundy and red ones also
But now that I was inside, I couldn’t really find anyone around, and after walking to the back room I did find someone who worked there that could help me. When I was commenting on how great the place smells the helper just half smiled and said that he really couldn’t even smell it anymore. He was putting up some more cut Christmas trees in the back room and knew exactly what I was after. I ordered some garland again this year and was ready to pick it up. I order garland from this business every year not only because they have the best price, but also I just plain like this place a lot. I knew that the garland would be ready to go today because I had ordered it on Thursday in the afternoon and they said that I could pick it up in a couple of hours. On Thursday! This nursery does a lot of work during the summer and if you visit them then, you’ll see rows and rows of trees planted just waiting to go to landscaping in someone’s yard or maybe a new windbreak for a farmer. While I was paying for my stuff, the garland was loaded in the Pacifica and off I went to get some groceries. I left the garland in the car until late that night just because it smelled so good. It sure beats the heck out of those little green tree air fresheners that some people put in their cars 🙂 Now that William is home for the week, I’m looking to see if he’ll help me put it up on the porch.
I also started to work on the Roadhouse tonight. It’s not bad and only needs to be vacuumed and organized. After giving it some heat with a Nipco and our heat stand, it was nice and toasty in there. And that’s where the trouble began. Reno was hanging in there with me and when I came to the house, I couldn’t get her off the couch. Literally! I threw an afghan on the couch and there she laid for a couple of hours watching me. But when I wanted to shut off the lights and call it a night – she wasn’t going to budge. She just looked at me and then pretended that she was sleeping. Finally I had to have William go out and see if he could get her out of there and into the barn for the night. He had better luck than I did, and it wasn’t long until everything was closed up for the night. William had brought home his projector from college for the week, so after Reno was locked up, we spent the rest of the night and into the morning watching movies.
Daryl is feeling better every day and it was just a really good Saturday!