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<\/p>\nLast year was the end of the road for our Tree. He was with us for 14 beautiful years.<\/p>\n
I am notoriously picky about Christmas trees, so this year we ended up borrowing my dad’s tree. Same height, same width . . . but more branches. I knew this would be an interesting lighting setup this year.<\/p>\n
And so, I now present to you The Tree, 2018:<\/p>\n
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The kids’ trees are in the dining room as usual.<\/p>\n
Number of lights on the tree: 3,730<\/strong>! That beats the past record by 750! Of course, different tree, etc.<\/p>\n I’ve got to figure out how to do less lights. It’s getting a little ridiculous.<\/p>\n Times cat has eaten the tree and barfed: 0<\/p>\n Ornaments broken: 1<\/p>\n Trips taken to Lowe’s to buy more lights: 2<\/p>\n Amount of lights purchased: 1,600<\/p>\n Percentage of lights that are LED: 100%!<\/p>\n Cookies Carrie has made: 85<\/p>\n ______________________<\/em><\/p>\n A short epitaph for the original Tree:<\/em><\/p>\n “There is no death in dying “So let this last leaf fall Last year was the end of the road for our Tree. He was with us for 14 beautiful years. I am notoriously picky about Christmas trees, so this year we ended up borrowing my dad’s tree. Same height, same width . . . but more branches. I knew this would be an interesting lighting setup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere is so much life in life.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLet the last bloom dry.
\nIn my dying,
\nI am more than alive.” — <\/em>Ishrath <\/span>Humairah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"