Christmas Is Back In The Basement

Well the holiday decorations are safely tucked back into their respective boxes. We dismantled the tree today. After which it dawned on me that I never bothered to take any pictures of the thing as it stood for the first time in our new house. I'm getting lax it would seem. The thing did not go down without a fight though and for the briefest of moments, was actually winning. We prevailed over it finally and were able to wrestle it back into the basement, though we came away with scrapes and gashes of verious sizes and descriptions. That is typical of our christmas tree however and we have a long standing history of such encounters. Usually all ending much the same as this one did.

Now what remains to be taken down are the decorations on the outside of the house. I must be honest when I say that I am in no hurry to scale a ladder in snow and ice, and pry out staples attaching heavy cords to the trim two-stories up. Moreover I am vehemently opposed to falling from such heights. I always end up atop the ladder with no one holding it. They all cut bait and run on the off chance I should drop the hammer. Do they not realize that I'm a much larger weight to fall on them if they don't hold me steady? Jeepers. I don't want to leave the lights where they are until spring because they are large and I don't want to chance them being stolen. I also don't want to have people think that I am tacky. Not to mention that the lights actually belong to the neighbour, so they aren't even mine to keep. I suppose then that I'll just have to wait for a nice day and head up that bloody ladder with a set of pliers and a prayer. It's not something I look forward to in any case. Anyways, wish me luck. I'll write again soon.