Last week I wrote these lines: “I had not looked forward to the job.  In no way had I wanted to go through all the bother.  But the Christmas spirit finally kicked in, I did it!  Oh, and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it might be to put up the tree.”  Then I posted a picture brazenly lifted borrowed from the Internet of a pine air freshener.  It didn’t take long for the usual suspects to get on my case over that.  And I thought it would be funny like this pic is funny.  Don’t you agree that this one is funny cute?

We lost our kitty, Midnight, this year.  So we knew it would not be fun to put up a big tree with shiny temptations ornaments.  Also come Christmas Day there would be two of us to share the day.  So out came Granny’s (Sylvia’s mom) tree.  It’s nice . . . at least I think it is.

This was taken at night using flash.  Usually a walk past the tree after the sun has set looks more like this:

The Christmas spirit is alive and well and illumines the dark places.  I’m ready to celebrate Christ’s birth.  Are you?