This is my tree, the first one I have ever gotten in New York City. Although it is just over seven feet tall, it is slender (like me) and I carried it up five flights in one hand, with the shiny new stand in the other.

This is what it looks like in my small apartment from my couch.

But this is the sweet view while lying prone beneath the evergreen.
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Two fun things this weekend, Mary and Aaron’s annual Holiday Drink Up and the Bar Mitzvah of the son of a friend of Ildi’s. Both good stories, soon to appear here. Now I’m on my way to Boston for the night. Cheers (the salutation, not the sitcom or bar).
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Site of the Day:From the Thigh Master, Scared of Santa. Just wonderful.