brainsplotch

Hello everyone and welcome to 2013. I hope your new year is going well so far. I am writing this on my/our new Nook tablet. It's quite a nifty device and the kids are not allowed to touch it. We finally packed up the Christmas decorations and took the tree down. As I was wrapping the tree in a tarp, shoving it in the back of the van, and finally disposing of it at the township-sponsered Christmas tree drop-off, I was struck by how odd the whole Christmas tree tradition is. We cut down a perfectly good tree, place a lot of shiny decorative objects on it in our homes and allow it to slowly die (though we keep it on "life-support " by watering it). When our holiday is over, and the tree is as good as dead, we remove the decorative objects and unceremoniously dump the tree corpse in a huge pile of other tree corpses. December and January are months of massive coniferous genocide. *** I'm taking a break from this post for now, but will try and get back to it later....