Indoor Plumbing?

There is a big tree in the corner of the house. It is some kind of pine tree and smells  quite nice.

 Seemingly the idea was to bring a little bit of the outdoors inside. I assumed at first it might be my new leg-lifting area. That only seemed fair since the cats get to do their business inside, perhaps I was no longer going to have to brave the cold outdoors to accomplish my duties.

 Slowly something very strange began to occur.
 The barren tree grew lights and started to twinkle in the night. Later the tree sprouted an angel on top and glorious orbs of wonderment appeared on its branches. As the days progressed more and more of the little items showed up on the limbs. There were cats and dogs and birds and butterflies and moons. I began to notice a theme, the decorations ( these are what I have learned they are called) all seemed to be smiling. Many of the hanging objects have faces and all of the faces are smiling. Bones calls it the face tree, Deb calls it the happy face tree.

 I wanted to call it the lift my leg tree but it turns out that is not the case.

 Don't tell anyone but I have seen Murphy do thinks to the tree that are inappropriate. Murphy has carte blanche so all is fair.

What ever you believe in, how ever you celebrate try to put aside your differences and let some light shine to your fellow man. We are still at war ,many of our young men are in places so horrible that a thing as simple as a happy face tree would seem like a marvel to them.

To me this is a joyous time.  It sounds corny but count your blessings show some love to those around you and share your feelings. I still want to lift my leg on the tree but now all those faces are watching.

Hugs from the valley:   Cash Fargo Bellinger