The End of Christmas 2022

Last Saturday, January 14th, Christmas came to an end here at the Fortress of Ineptitude.  

Below is a photo of our Christmas tree taken at approximately 8 AM Saturday morning.   

By approximately 5 PM, this tree shaped conglomeration of lights, baubles and tinsel was gone, consigned to storage bins and labeled boxes until Thanksgiving when we drag everything out and start the whole damn process again. 

Leaving the tree up until the 2nd week of January is pretty much par for the course around here. The longest the tree remained in place here at the Fortress was probably 2017, the year of my infamous stroke and fall that shattered my elbow and also my mom died. 

The tree was not a priority. 

I think it came down sometime in February.  

I bitch and moan about putting the damn thing up because to be blunt it's a damn hassle. If my daughter visiting for Thanksgiving didn't take point on this exercise, I may never put the fershlugginer thing up. 

But once it's up...

I kind of get accustomed to it, it's rainbow tapestry of light providing a warm glow to an otherwise dark corner of the living room.  

Anyway, the tree must come down and now it's gone. 

And that is the end of Christmas 2022.

Well, not quite. Still come credit card bills to pay from the season gone by.