O Christmas Tree

The bulk of today was spent trimming the Christmas tree. This doesn’t sound strange, until you consider the fact that I have a fake tree.

See, when we bought the tree three or four years ago it came with white lights already attached. All we had to do was buy a couple boxes of colored lights and wrap ’em ’round. When it came time to pack the tree away neither Peanut nor I felt like dealing with the logistics of taking off the colored lights and disassembling the tree. Fortunately we had a lot of extra closet space, so we just dragged it out of sight and left it set up. This system worked pretty well for us.

Well, this year most of our colored lights weren’t working. We decided to replace them with white and blue LED lights, which have a softer life to them, but these lights clashed pretty badly with the hard, bright, almost-yellow glow of the attached bulbs. So someone got saddled with the chore of going through and painstakingly cutting each individual bulb out of the tree and then detangling the whole mess.

So it came to pass that I spent hours this afternoon trimming a fake tree.

On the plus side, our white and blue lights are now strung, and the tree gives off a faint purple glow. Now to weigh it down with tinsel and Batman ornaments.

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