#thisdaysjoy: finishing a hard thing

November 20, 2023

Okay, it may not be “hard” like threading a needle in the dark hard.

But getting the Christmas tree up and its lights on is easily the least fun job of the season.

After an emotionally scarring experience with a pre-lit tree and half a tree’s worth of lights that went out and never came back on.

Ghrrr!

I vowed “never again!” and each year I do it by hand…