A string of colored Christmas
lights still celebrates the season around
our front porch. They're the only ones
on our street. But, then, they were always
the only ones on our street this season!
Others are scattered throughout our
development and most are still turned on
as soon as it gets dark.
Some of my friends, and relatives,
on Facebook write that they have taken
down their holiday lights.
Some have already been replaced
by Valentine Hearts!
Guess they couldn't fine anything
appropriate for Martin Luther King
Day!
And I've already spotted one
"dead" Christmas tree.....tossed out for
the trash man.
I've been urging everyone to hang
on to Christmas at least until our friends
of the Russian Orthodox Faith have their
celebration this Saturday. Christmas, as
I've insisted before comes and goes far
too fast.
I know the decorations will all
soon be gone in most neighborhoods.
In fact one string of lights on our
small Christmas tree went dark the other
day and we're not about to re-string it
this late in the season.
I believe my wife has already
penciled in a "take down the decorations
day" for next week.
That will mean getting out and
climbing up the ladder! All those
staples we weren't sure would hold,
when we put everything up, will now
fight to the death to stay in place!
It will be cold. It doesn't matter
what day we pick for dis assembly.
Global warming will have no effect!
It WILL be COLD!
And I will bruise. Careful as I
try to be....I will bruise!
I wonder if I can come up with
some rational to make the Christmas
lights a permanent fixture?
Probably not! She's already
marked the calendar! Oh well.
Of course when you get right down
to it it's the "Spirit of Christmas" most of
us would like to see preserved.
Whether your Christmas lights and
decorations are up or down I hope you're
doing your part to remember why we
celebrated in the first place!
That said, I also hope all your NEWS
is good!
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