There'll be a party at Number One Observatory Circle, which housed its first full time, residential vice president when Minnesota-born Walter Mondale moved into the residence in the 1980s. It'll take 18 hours and 19 minutes to drive the 1,184 miles, according to Google Maps. Under the buzzing saw of Tony Bacon, Happy Land's field and shipping manager, the anointed tree was felled Friday afternoon. "The VP's Office requested a 10-foot-tree." When the vice president calls, you generally listen. "It's a very beautiful color - silvery blue on the bottom," Myra Olson of Happy Land Tree Farms said. In a year in which two turkeys from Minnesota will travel to the nation's capital for formal pardoning on Thanksgiving, a 10-foot Fraser fir from Happy Land Tree Farms near Sandstone will travel, by temperature-controlled van, to the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C. A tannenbaum from Minnesota's north woods has never stood in splendor in the White House or Vice President's Naval Observatory - until this year.
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