Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Well, this morning added to the saga that started with the strange Christmas card we received yesterday. Got a card from a couple who will remain unnamed wishing us a Merry Christmas, telling us they had fun at the party last weekend, wondering what Carl would do with all that cheese, and stating that Jim might know where it went. Interestingly, we were not at any party with a Carl who got a lot of cheese nor a Jim who might know more about it. Called the people in the phone book by that name and they swear to know nothing about the card but indicated that there is another family with the same names as theirs because they used to get debt collectors calling them. We had a similar thing happen with another Loveless that lived here so ???

Anyway, got up this morning, went downstairs, and looked out the window to discover that it had snowed toilet paper during the evening and that icicles were hanging off most of our trees, covered our bushes, and been able to wrap around 0ur cars. Will give whomever credit, they even made a pattern across my camper top which is off the truck right now and had it looking like ribbons had been tied over it.

We do not have a clue who did this and wonder if it was the wrong house since we have a high school teacher living nearby. With no teenagers or college students living at home, it was just a bit weird but exactly like something I would have done or might do again just for fun. Whoever tossed the big roll over the powerline which is about 30 to 40 feet above ground should be recruited by the Falcons since they could use someone with an arm.

Now for the big question. How do you clean this stuff our of the trees? It is simple. Take one each lighter and light the end of a stringer. Stand back and watch it flame like a fuse and disappear. It had rained last night so could not do this immediately but did a few of them tonight and it is almost as much fun as setting off fireworks. There are no leaves left on the trees and the paper burns so quick that it can't catch the bark on fire so there is little to no danger.

We were able to recover the plastic back that the paper was brought to the house in. I have given that to a good friend in the local police department who is going to have it scanned with the new technology using laser and infrared that makes it easy to identify fingerprints on materials that are otherwise difficult to lift prints from.