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<\/a>I wasn\u2019t really snooping, but as I went out into the garage to pull down the boxes with all my outside Christmas decorations in them and I heard voices. I stopped, leaned forward and listened. Indeed, there were voices coming from the boxes of Christmas decorations<\/strong>. I creeped a little closer and put my ear up to the holiday box.<\/p>\n\u201cOK, you over there, spin around and climb through here; you, twist around a couple of times and do a summersault through here. You over there, back up through this hole and hold hands with her.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Yes, it was just as I suspected, each year I carefully take down and tie my Christmas lights into a nice roll, label them as to where they came from and place them gently in the box. When I go to get them the following year, they are all knotted up with each other and in complete disarray. How does that happen? I was about to learn; I listened further.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need a couple of volunteers again this year; one to climb out of your socket and hide somewhere where he can\u2019t find you. We need a second volunteer to wriggle out of your socket just a little, so you light up when he tests us, but not when he put us up. Walter, I think you were close to the top of the roofline last year, so you\u2019d be a good one to volunteer for that. OK, thanks. Those of you who are close to that label he put on us last year, let\u2019s get that off as soon as possible; if you can put it on another bundle of lights, all the better. Don\u2019t forget, if you feel like you\u2019re going to go out this year, wait until you get up on the house and then go out. And listen up everyone, what happens when one of us goes out? WE ALL GO OUT! That\u2019s right, we\u2019re a team, we need to stick together so he has to test each one of us to find the one that\u2019s actually bad. We\u2019ll also need a volunteer to give one up for the team this year when he lays us out on the driveway, someone needs to roll under his foot and get crushed. You\u2019ll be remembered as a hero to all of us. <\/em><\/p>\n Deer-in-a-Box<\/p><\/div>\n Meanwhile, in the box next to it, I can hear the lighted reindeer talking to himself, getting ready for \u2018his gig’.<\/p>\n \u201cMan, it will be good to get out of this fricking box and get all my pieces put together. . . hopefully correctly this year! How hard is it to put my tail on the other end of my body from my head? I don\u2019t know who I pissed off, but I spend 11 months with my head up my ass in a small box and then I gotta stand out on the front lawn with a smile on my face, freezing my ass off, looking all Christmassy for the next month \u2013 no food, no water and my antlers will probably be facing the wrong direction again this year. Wish I could poop all over his lawn; actually I just wish I could poop.\u00a0 I know I look transparent, but I’m feeling a little blocked up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The artificial Christmas tree resides elsewhere in a storage shed. Yes, I lost the battle of \u2018real\u2019 tree versus \u2018artificial\u2019 tree, last year when my last \u2018real\u2019 tree had a small fire that was put out fairly quickly, albeit after a good deal of water settled into the carpet and the walls became a bit ashy. I mentioned to Linda that the fire retardant actually looked like snow on the tree, but she failed to see the humor in that.<\/p>\n As late afternoon brought darkness, I headed out to the street in front of the house to admire my work.\u00a0 Of course, the highest string of lights on the house was out, but I know just where to look for the culprit.\u00a0 No, all the lights didn’t all come on at the same time, but that’s an easy fix.\u00a0 So I’m feeling pretty good until I look at the reindeer and wonder if those antlers are on correctly.\u00a0 Then I notice something under the reindeer that looks an awful lot like reindeer poop.\u00a0 No way!\u00a0 It turned out to be just a leaf, but I thought I noticed a smile on the reindeer’s face.<\/p>\n May all your lights stay bright.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow I wasn\u2019t really snooping, but as I went out into the garage to pull down the boxes with all my outside Christmas decorations in them and I heard voices. I stopped, leaned forward and listened. Indeed, there … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Reindeer-in-parts.jpeg\")
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