A year comes to a close

Christmas 2013 has gone and it will be a new year in a couple of days.  This was not a bad year for me. I went to a couple of Jonathan's races to cheer him on.  I am truly amazed by how he can run so far and for so long.  He has determination that is for sure.  The Boston Marathon was one race no one will ever forget. Jon's achievement was lost in the smoke from the bomb, but he will always know he ran that race in under three hours.  As for Christmas, we did sell trees in Leominster again this year.  I think we sold all but two that we left there, and two Bart gave away.  This year we were down the road from 900 Central Street in a parking lot.  Bart and the guys put up a thirty foot greenhouse, we had lights and heat.  Only Bart could fix up a greenhouse to provide us with what we needed to stay warm.  I will not ask what it cost us to do all of this !!  Anyway people were wonderful, and it almost made me cry when they would say "we were their tradition," or "where would I go"? "I was afraid I would not be able to find you".  Some of the customers we have had been coming to Bart's for thirty years, some for ten, or some for three, but they all feel the same way.   I told them we had them covered, because for the next two years we would be at Sholand Farm selling trees, and teaching the people up there how to run the business like we do. Bart and I spoke to Joanne Dinardo and then we met with the Board of Directors at Sholand.  The have agreed to take our tree business when we are done, and we will give them all of our equipment.  They also asked if they could use the Barts Farm name, and of course we agreed.  What more could we ask, to have our business continue and to have our loyal customers taken care of.