minorthird

so…’tis the season to take down all of the Christmas decoration, lest ye be known on the block as “that house.”

Erika is truly amazing! In addition to taking care of a ten-and-a-half month old that might be teething, might have a cold, definately has as much energy as his three-year-old cousins, yesterday she painted the back door and stripped the Christmas tree and put it out at the curb, and still was looking especially hottt (yep, three “t”s, uh-huh, that’s right) when I got home.

The disrobing of the tree meant that I needed to keep up with my end of the deal: getting up early and taking the tree to play with all the other trees at the park.

Our town doesn’t do curbside tree pick up, so they designate a park in each neighborhood for everyone to pile up the trees. The idea is that they’ll get picked up every few days, but there was about 100 trees there when I showed up — most of them were well-behaved, waiting their turn for the swings and slide, but of course there were a few Blue Spruces acting like they owned the joint — I think they cut might be better served turning the site into a compost pile.

so…there I was at 5:00 am, driving down the street, with a tree on the top of the Jeep. I would normally feel odd about being the spectacle, but let’s face it, nobody was awake at 5:00 am and I was tried enough that I wasn’t feeling much.

Funny thing about people not being up at 5:00 am: the police take notice of you if you’re double-parked in the middle of the road, circling your vehicle. Sure, I was at the tree drop off, but wouldn’t that be a great alibi?

I still have that bright spot in my field of vision when I look up from the spotlight when they creeped by…(nothing to see here, move on).

No harm, no foul, no early morning trip to jail, and I get the joyous smell of pine to take with me through the workday.

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