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The Aluminum Tree

By Jimmy Johnson

December 22, 2018


OK, I know this series is only two years old. Like me, you will remember it as if it first appeared yesterday. That’s how two years seem at our age. Still, I enjoyed telling this Christmas story, and I enjoyed it again when I reread it this morning. I reason that if I enjoy it, you might, too. I hope I’m right. Now, if you will excuse me, I have Christmassy things to attend.


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120 responses to “The Aluminum Tree”

  1. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Happy New Year to the Village. I have to say it now, because I’ll be doing my Darth Vader imitation courtesy of the CPAP at midnight. Still have to be up at 530 in the morning to work. At least it’s my 6 hour day.

  2. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    This just in from China: The Committee on Renaming Asinine Zodiac Years (CRAZY) has unanimously voted to retroactively change 2020 from “Year of the Rat” to “Year of the Dumpster Fire”.
    Happy New Year, everyone.

  3. Oldbear Avatar
    Oldbear

    More like “The Year of The Tire Dump Fire”
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    I will not jinx it by saying what I am thinking – because it can.
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    Just I praying your 2021 is better than 2020.

  4. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Here we are in 2021 and I sort of slept through the momentous event. Ghost and Dickens made enough nouse to wake me. Only Dickens kissed me.

    Happy New Year’s everyone!

  5. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Been quiet a while and will continue. Managed to jab a thumbnail into my cornea and abrade far too much of the latter. Amazingly painful; not recommended for anyone. Sight gone in that eye for a day or so, very slowly returning. Trying to read eyechart in the ER, I had to admit I could not see even a single letter nor the chart not even the person holding the chart!! Couldn’t even make out the wall of the room…it was all a big blur.
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    Wish you all well in 2021, but I probably won’t be commenting a lot for a few more days. Injured eye is teary and my nearby sinus is sympathetically unloading itself, so it’s tissue city. Hard to read the screen.
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    Humor: with only one eye working, at supper last evening, it took me 3 tries to get my table knife into the jam bottle I was holding in my other hand. Need two eyes for accurate 3-d spatial relationships. Sure felt incompetent.