Here come the killers

Up where I live near the village of Red Feather Lakes, there’s a phenomenon now going on that happens every year  starting the day after Thanksgiving and continuing almost up till Christmas Day.

I call it the invasion of the tree killers.

Caravans of pickups, SUVs and vehicles of every description head up County Road 74E from U.S. 287 and point south.

Passing them coming down that same road are lines of the same type vehicles heading back south. But tied in the pickup bed or strapped to the top of virtually every one of these…