The week before Christmas we had 14, yep that's right 14, trees delivered. I'm not talking little 4 foot things you can get at Lowe's. These were 15 to 20 foot 200 to 300 lb trees. Five Natchez White Crepe Myrtles, 4 River Birch, One Laurel Oak and 4 Maples. They are all beautiful trees that we got a GREAT deal on from a tree farm in Columbia. But they arrived the day before we were to have 20 people over to our house for a Christmas party, it was COLD, and it was raining cats and dogs. Yes, a recipe for disaster! The tree guy delivered them in a car-type trailer that had pull out ramps. So they (the tree guy, Andrew and Andrew's Daddy) were rolling the trees down the ramp into place around the property. About 6 trees in, the ramp fell off the trailer with a tree on top of it as they were rolling it down...right on Andrew's foot. Believe it or not, they finished unloading the trees. Then we went to the emergency room. Big toe broken. I was a little relieved it wasn't worse. Andrew has broken a toe before so to him it wasn't that big a deal although it looked horrible. So the next day he was out in the freezing rain putting those trees in the ground. Now that's dedication!
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