My son repeated a trick he employed as a university freshman in Honolulu—a Christmas tree drawn on butcher paper, hung on the wall. Back then, all trees shipped to Hawaii were sold.
Now, he said he would help me win the decoration prize for this apartment renter at my old folks boarding house. Kelson cut butcher paper, drew a Christmas tree, and asked his bride to paint a beautiful ornament. He hung the drawing on my apartment door. Hung a sack filled with a dozen Sharpie colored pens on the door knob.
We invited others to add drawings and comments.
‘Nana’ and ‘Bill’ wished a “Merry Christmas”.
An unidentified post read, “Thanx, needed a Sharpie—Kilroy”.
Mary, the lady who usually wins when we play 42 dominoes, placed second in the door decoration contest. She can’t, or will not, tell me who ‘Grinched’ our paper door tree. Some old person printed the face of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas from their computer. Colored mostly green, stuck on top of our paper tree, and inscribed “onery mention”.
