Leica 'Tis the Season

You guys are making me laugh - yet that's quite a view for anyone or anything. Beautiful, Duane. Probably a good thing it's not a real tree since it has to hang in there until maybe January 6th?

I hope you're going to be home for a few weeks nonstop, Duane.
 
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I hope you're going to be home for a few weeks nonstop, Duane.

I wish! Things have changed with the job due to a merger with another one of our operations. I'm junior on my fleet and now that I'm union seniority is everything. I will never see a Thanksgiving or Christmas at home. Before you worked Tday and had Xmas off, next year the opposite.
 
Ah, I used to live in the ground as random ores and petroleum. Nah. This is why chemists don't do poetry.

Let the chemists and the engineers tweak this.

The Lay of the Aluminum Tree

After millennia of frozen sleep,
wrested forth, shattered, gloriously flowing in ruddy streams,
cupped, rolled, formed, tweaked,
adorned for a few weeks, festive in the glittering sunlight and caressing houselights,
cast in a carton to brood for long months
before being welcomed once more into the heart of the family,
glad in their gladness,
dreading the long darkness to come.
 
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