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Pine tree Christmas smell is delightful. Even in January. Even when the trees were left behind over the weekend and I have to go collect them all by myself in the dark after work without even one Boy Scout to help me. They were left behind for various reasons. Mostly customers not filling out the form right so we couldn’t get it, and then calling to complain. Sometimes the tree wasn’t got even though the Scouts marked it as got. Mysteries. Couldn’t solve ‘em. Just got the trees.

One was fifteen feet long, and heavy. I managed. Dropped ‘em all at the vacant lot we used this year – next year that lot’ll be a library, will think of something else. A chipper will grind ‘em up later this week. That’ll smell good too, but with any luck I won’t be there.

Lots of trees down round here. Friday’s storm made national news, which is funny. When most places’ storms make the news, it’s pretty bad. Ice shuts down a city, towns are flooded out, etc. But this is Northern California. Life is relatively easy. We had wind. Lots of wind and our fence went down, and a neighbor’s boat has a tree on it, and somewhere I saw a tin garden shed all crumpled up like sixth grade homework, and some people had their power out, but that was about it. Wind. Big news.