Pedley's Ponderings

My muted contempt for the Christmas season has not lightened as the holiday approaches. This time of year is hectic for everyone, and it just seems like it gets worse and worse. Maybe it’s just my attitude, which has admittedly aged like milk.

Nonetheless, I did get my lights hung outside a couple weeks ago. Since I had already been up on the roof cleaning gutters the Sunday prior, I put in a subpar effort on the lights. That’s not my grade of the job, though – it’s my wife’s.

There was supposed to be two sets of bush lights that drape over our front-facing vegetation. Unfortunately, my snow b...