Thanksgiving and Christmas tree harvesting

Well, we did it...and we are still doing it!  Eating turkey I mean!  We had a nice, very small Thanksgiving with Paul, me, Bean and Grandma Kurtz.  The food was all delicious and we had a nice time visiting.  We missed having other family join with us, but Covid-19 has made lots of things different than we hoped for this year.  

Afterwards we drove up via Parowan to Cedar Mountain.  We made it up to the end of Brian Head before we had to turn around because the road was icing up.  The wind was blowing snow flurries sideways.  It was beautiful, but not to be driven in.  We were looking to see if we'd be able to come up the next day to get Christmas trees.  

Luckily today's weather was much improved, and we did make it up and did get a tree for us and for Grandma.  (She got the better tree I think.)  It wasn't without excitement...kind of as usual.  We were able to drive up a little side road since not much snow at all is on the ground up there yet.  But as we came over a rise we went just a little too far and started down the other side where there was more snow...and got promptly stuck in our weak, not 4-wheel drive little pickup.  Paul tried pushing while I drove backing up.  Didn't work.  Then I got in the back to add weight...didn't work, he got in the back...didn't work.  We put towels under the back tires for some traction...didn't work.  The we got lots of dirt and put it under the back tires...didn't work...until Paul went forward just a bit then hit reverse hard and we hit that dirt and moved back several feet.  We added dirt again and made a trail back with it and did the same again...and we got out!!!  Thankfully those prayers came through.  Sometimes I don't really feel too good about asking for help when we are just kind of dumb and get ourselves into these fixes.