The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer

Anyway, I carried that tree with all of the lights still on it down the stairs and stuck it into a big closet. Last year, I removed the ornaments the third week in January, because the home teachers were coming, and I would have felt ashamed to have the tree still standing there in my living room. I used to think Thanksgiving weekend was too early, but now I see that it is becoming traditional to put the tree up that weekend, especially if the tree is fake anyway. I want to slap people who put up a Christmas tree before Thanksgiving. Now I’m back to that skinny synthetic tree (see above) and I load it with ornaments, meaningful kitsch I have gathered over the years from various places: Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Prince Edward Island, Maine, Vienna, Holland, Japan and New York, where I bought some really gaudy stuff at Tavern on the Green when they went on sale.

There was no way I was not going to buy one of those trees. Then we moved to New York City for a couple of years where I bought real, dead trees again, because seeing trees on the sidewalk in New York was magical. I held on to real, dead trees until the year 2004 when we bought an elegant but small condo. But they smelled like live trees for a few days and then they dropped needles all over the carpet, because everybody had carpet in the old days, post World War II old days, I mean. These were real trees, not synthetic trees. They bought fat, bush-like trees where ornaments hung on the outside of the tree like refrigerator magnets.

Tom’s family waited to buy their tree until the day before Christmas, because they were cheap. We had those colored candle-shaped lights that bubbled. Our tree was skinny so you could hang ornaments inside the branches. My family put it up the week before Christmas and Mother took it down first thing on January 2 nd. OL4137256W Page_number_confidence 92.86 Pages 198 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210906063349 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 354 Scandate 20210831083337 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780375895210 Tts_version 4.In the old days, people put their trees up much later than they do now. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:05:36 Boxid IA40228915 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer