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Oh, crap, what now? A Christmas Tree shortage? I thought everybody was cancelling Christmas so we should be swimming in trees.

Normally Richard buys an 8-foot tree and spends a week carefully filling it with blinking, flashing, color-changing lights, starting from the inside and working his way out to make sure it is 3-dimensional. Then we add a hundred or so of his hand painted ornaments, carefully hanging the smaller ones at the top to create an illusion of perspective and increased height (this is what happens when you let an MCAD trained artist decorate a tree). At the end I add a few dozen birds, because birds were my favorite when I was a kid. And we pick our favorite dozen ornaments to put on rotators and start them all spinning.

But this year we have cancelled Christmas, so why bother? No singing party, no game parties, no Minnstf meetings, and no grandkids. So we're planning a small table-top tree decorated in Throwback style. He's planning to use the old mismatched lights and decorations that don't fit his fully evolved effervescent tree style. Quiet little snowman lights that don't even change color and that sort of thing. We're planning to go tree shopping tomorrow. Merry Christmas.