Tree-mendous:

Today's Tids Issue 4,540

Ornaments don’t get old.

Ornaments just gather more beautiful memories.

This was the weekend where a lot of people went out to the highways and byways to tree farms, and into the woodlands to cut down a Christmas tree. It was cold, just the right temperature for getting down and sawing. And enjoy hot chocolate bubbling. I remember clearly days in the past hauling a tree across fields through drifting snow to the car; driving home through snowy ruts to bright and happy eyes. And decorating, with special ornaments from the past. Many from those not with us. Yes, I can see families in homes over this past weekend, laughing and smiling together as Grandpa’s favorite angel tops the tree and saved ornaments with memories get positions of prominence. And then the entire tree is carefully filled with glittering balls and fanciful images, all that will become nostalgia again for future generations.

I’ll tell you how out of touch I am with modern society. I always thought Shia LeBeouf was a woman.

I find this time in the Christmas progression rather tense. Well, not that tense, except for the moment when you plug in the Christmas tree lights and hope they all light up.

I’ll never understand why they close Ice Cream shops in the winter. It still tastes good.

If you start hearing chatter from your spice cupboard, don’t worry. It’s just the season’s greetings.

It is not impossible these days to think you may meet somebody who thinks good surf and turf is Kelp and Kale. But, I personally like a good lunch of a Lobster roll and a think juicy Roast Beef sandwich. Maybe with a fry or too.

The Question:

What are the ten Most popular types of Christmas trees?

The Headlines:

--Euro Stocks Flat Lower On Questionable China Data; US Could Follow.

--Volcano Eruption In New Zealand Kills At Least 5; Many More Missing; White Island NZ Popular Tourist Attraction.

--Yahoo Finance Names Target Company Of The Year.

--GOP And Dem Staff Attorneys To Take The Stage At This Morning’s Impeachment Hearings In Judiciary Committee.

--Russia Possibly Banned For Next Olympics Over Total Disregard Of Drug Policy Rules

--North Korea Says Denuclearization Is Off The Table.

--FBI Investtigating PPnnsicola Shooting As Terrorist Event.

I think artists are incredibly talented people. But there are many who snooker the public, especially some of the wealthy who would never want to be known as someone “Not understanding” art.

I think it is a generational plot. Do you know how technology device manufacturers keep oldsters reliant on the youth? Type size. Yes, they print instructions on mini, graphic designer-orgasm creations in 6pt or less type size.

The bandwagon to legalize Marijuana is rolling along through the green, green grass of the highlands. But, do you know why MJ  is illegal in the first place? In 1937 FDR signed the Marihuana Tax Act. (Yes, it was spelled Marihuana.) The excise tax was repealed in 1969 after a Supreme Court Decision on O’Leary vs. USA.

The New England artist brushed it aside when people gave her the nickname Yankee Doodler.

Singer Billie Eilish said that Trump will get elected again because “Some people just love horrible people.” You mean, Billie, like all those Americans who like suspect entertainers. It’s just another way of saying deplorables.

What’s with this new trend of the high and mighty and successful dumping on regular people who won’t be cowed by twinkling starlets.

Debbie Boone is known for her Christmas tree song – “You light up my life.”

You can always tell when an elderly man or woman has been working on assembling or activating a new tech gadget. They’re squinting.

Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin met. Albert to Charlie: “What I admire most about your art, is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet, the world understands you.” Charlie to Albert: “It’s true, but your fame is even greater. The world admires you when nobody understands you.”

Congressman Al Green who wanted to impeach Trump in his first month, has just said that if Trump is found not guilty by the Senate, we’ll just impeach him again, and then again after that if necessary. I don’t think Green understands that The US isn’t South America.

Aarrrrrrrrgh!

Meanwhile back in RI, the mainly lawyer and union official dominated State Legislature will probably be voting on a RI Bar association proposal mandating lawyer representation for both parties at all house closing. Legal featherbedding.

Old Tannenbaum is good chemis-tree fir families.

Yesterday in 1998: “Struggling to stave off impeachment, President Bill Clinton’s defenders forcefully pleaded his case before the House Judiciary committee.” Clinton lost. Trump has declined to forcefully fight the impeachment Judiciary Committee. He will lose too.

What happened to originality on Broadway. Many new shows are movie plots turned into musicals, two on the docket being Pretty girl and Mean Girls. But the laziest editions to the renown street of creativity are merely former singing star reviews, middling satires surrounded by stars hit songs – the latest three being Cher, The Temptations, and yes Donna Summers. Holy John Travolta, Batman.

Yaks are big bison like creatures that can live at altitudes of up 20,000 feet at at temps as low as minus 40 degrees. They have adapted to their demanding conditions by developing extra-large lungs and double hair insulation. So, as the climate cycle changes over time, Americans will too… over about 4,000 years. If their helicopter parents allow them to go outside as kids.

Snakes don’t have arms. That’s why they don’t wear vests.

(Thanks to a good reader and Stephen Wright fan for the above logic.)

I wish I was as smart as all of the people from whom I steal quotes.

“A ship is always safe at shore, but that’s not what it’s  built for.” –Albert Einstein

The Answer:

Number One is the Fraser Fir. That is followed by Noble Fir, Blue Spruce, Grand Fir, Balsam Fir, White Fir, Eastern White Pine, Douglas Fir, Norway Spruce, and the rugged Scotch Pine. Another list I found has it Balsam, Douglas and Fraser.

Never fir-get your Christmas tree.

Oh Tannenbaum. “Your dress wants to teach me something: Your hope and durability provide comfort and strength at any time.” Your needles are as green in the heat of summer as they are in the cold of Winter.