Looking at the calendar seeing November rapidly fading I can almost hear the gears begin to shift into the high glee of the Christmas spirit. With my vantage point, I can see the traffic congestion, thousands of cars filled with happy shoppers waiting for hours to save 5 bucks on a four-slice toaster.
But this blog ain’t about the lead up to Christmas, it’s the after effects of the holiday season, or more precise, the tradition of taking down the tree.
(Rest assured, there will be a very soon blog on the tradition of putting the Christmas tree up, from the old days of going out and cutting down a fresh tree to the current artificial tree scenario we have right now.)
Happy New Year!!! Yes January 1st is here and the tree is still in the corner. Our two wild cats have already picked it clean of all their favorite baubles and trinkets leaving a smattering of tidings and joy scattered throughout the house. You haven’t lived until you see silver tinsel in the cat box. And it didn’t fall in there either. Yet I digress yet again.
The dismantling of the tree and storing it away was always a chore. Taking down all the ornaments that the cats didn’t like and putting them back in their boxes, unwrapping the garland strings and folding it ever so nicely back into its boxes, unwinding the several thousand lights that when at full illumination, burned my retina’s out and I couldn’t see for two full days.
And yes, the lights always seem to get tangled into a big ball and it takes quite awhile and plenty of patience to get them all wound up in the right coiled position so next year when they are unpacked, they are not in a big ass ball.
Finally, the tree is bare and I bring the tree box from the basement and center it in the living room. Taking out the old newspapers from years past that I use to cover the tree,
(I don’t know why I do that) I begin with the treetop and it pops right off. I set it on top of the lazy boy couch.
The tree is in sections and comes apart fairly easily. This part takes all of five minutes. I then pack each section carefully in the box, put the treetop in and the poles and the tree stand. I then put the old newspapers on top and tape up the box readying it for its journey and dormant sleep for another year in the basement.
I pushed the tree box to the kitchen door and positioned it in front of the basement stairs. Gently and slowly I lifted the tree box beginnings its journey down the steps. Then it happened. I guess my tennis shoes were untied for I stepped on the laces and tripped and fell right on top of the tree box. A split second later, I was inside the tree box sleeping with the branches, and a split second after that I was riding the damn Christmas tree down the basement steps.
Thump, Thump, Thump, times 15 steps. My heart was pounding and my mind went blank. (My wife says hard to believe huh?) The ride was over in a nanosecond. The box slip safely to a halt about five feet on the basement floor. I jumped out of that box like a Jack-In-The-Box tightly wound. Feeling nothing broken I started to laugh. I sat down on the floor cracking up thinking that this episode would have been perfect for America’s Funniest home movies. Where’s the damn web cam when you need them?
Later that day I told my wife Patty of my most eventful day. She looked at me in shock, asked if I was OK, and then proceeded to bust out in laughter calling me by her pet name she made up for me. “You idiot, you’re lucky you didn’t kill yourself.” Yes dear, but at least the Christmas tree was stowed away for another year and I got a free ride down the steps.
LURKING ON THE GRASSY KNOLL
LEE LARSON said
LOTGK said
BTW, big foot saw his shadow, that means six more decades of hiding out.
Jim Porter said
Gumby said
LOTGK said
RTB said
A strong argument for ‘Oswald’ as the lone gunman.
But Jean Dixon, an alleged physic, wrote to the president warning him not to go to Dallas.
Why did no one interview her?! Did she dream the assassination? Did she see it in Astrology?
The Germans were very much into Astrology- using light as a mechanism, even though science can prove
astrology is not a science. Its humans that create the horoscopes and decide when and where to act on them.
The archdukes assassination at 11:00 am, June 28, 1914- led to war, wwI
Von Hindenburg’s death eventually led to the annexation of Austria- like the Archduke’s attempt to annex Bosnia + Herzogovina
What go around comes around in theory.. Hitler from Austria- both annexation attempts’ fail.
JFK leads to the escalation of Vietnam.
The houses (astrology) between the Archdukes death and Von Hindenburgs’ death are identical.
On August 02, 1934 when Von hindenburg died, the Sun was 9 degrees Leo, Moon was 10 degrees Taurus-
bouncing light off the moon from the sun in degrees- 9 Leo to 10 Taurus hits 11 degrees Aquarius,
where the moon was when JFK was assassinated.. 11 degrees, 11th Sign
The Prime Minister of England, on Sept 03, 1939- threatened Germany with war at Nine, declared war at Eleven. thus 9-11
Remember, New York used to be ‘New Amsterdam’- maybe that ‘New City’ predicted by that so-called fameous phsyic.
New York, first capital- also the 11th Coloney of the original 13.
Empire State building, hit by B-25 July 28th, 1945- Sunday- the anniversary of WWI being declared in 1914
World Trade Center, 9-11, hit tuesday, looks like an eleven- 110 stories
In Binary, Sunday is (0)1, on 9-11, Tuesday is written as (0)11.
Friday the sixth day of the week- or oswald on Friday, nov 22, 1963- the 6th floor
Can be written as (0)110, the trade center had 110 floors- April 20th Hitler’s birthday is the 110th day of the year
This should be enough for ya’s. Don’t get on started on UFO’s, or “ODESSA”- THE Pearl of the Black Sea-
Like Paraguay is to South America, might be, for escaping ‘Nazi’s.
There used to be a story, saying, that there was a UFO base in Peru- In the 70′s, I didn’t believe that, but then
I found out that the Germans at the end of the war creating, Flying Saucer, flying wings- (Horton Ho-9′s) like craft.
But they were so defeated, they were probably leaving Germany to regroup.
2046, 2047, 2048 are years to pay attention to- USE binary
day 9-11, and day 9-12 are writtten simularily like 2047, 2048.
(0)11111110, 9-11 and (0)11111111, 9-12.. ’2046′-, (0)11111111110.. 2047- (11.1′s)–(0)11111111111.. 2048-(0)100000000000…
WELL ANYWAY..
LOTGK said