The 12 Posts of Christmas, Day 1: The Hillbilly Christmas Wreath 2023

Inside: Our favorite farm tradition is back again in 2023–our Hillbilly Christmas Wreath!

Tractor tire decorated like a Christmas wreath. — Here she is!

The Hillbilly Christmas Wreath 2023

Welcome again to our favorite farm Christmas tradition, 2023 style–our Hillbilly Christmas Wreath! If you’re one of our faithful audience who stops by this time of year, you might notice we are using the same colored bow as last year. New bow–I bought too much of this material a few years back. Next year we’ll likely change the color. This is our seventh year decorating the tractor tire wreath.

On a warm day–and we’ve had quite a few of those–we bungeed our bow into place after touching up the paint a little and stringing lights–which are admittedly not straight this year. But the lights are fun, blinking in different patterns. Our favorite is the twinkling mode! Incidentally, we didn’t turn on the lights until the day after Thanksgiving. We’ve learned that getting everything ready when the weather is good isn’t betraying Thanksgiving.

And speaking of Thanksgiving and being thankful, I am thankful this whole tire wreath decorating has gotten easier with the years. Why, it’s only taken us seven years to figure things out!