The tree is down. A progressive three day task. Starting Tuesday (as I helped the Buckeye Garden Club take down decorations in the Reading Room) Bonnie H had herself perched on top of the ladder removing icicles. She spent Wednesday morning up there as well as she was step one in an assembly line, in which ornaments came down to me (at the bottom of the ladder) and were handed off to Carol S, who sorted into boxes, which were taken into the workshop where Kay Hostetler and Judy counted and wrapped. Bill Collins said by Carol S sorting the decorations as we took them off the tree it made the process much smoother this year. Then came the lights. Glenna Sheaffer sure knows how to put on 7,000 lights making the tree beautiful and a challenge to undo. Lights were wrapped around every branch and wound through the tree. We made it through the bottom half of the tree that day. Little unknown fact is that there were actually 6,900 lights on the tree, but is sure seemed all of 7,000 as we took them off.
On the third day, Bonnie worked on rewrapping lights, connecting the ends and boxing them up as Judy and Kay continued to work with ornaments. I helped Lee and Shawn McClain with the remaining top half of the tree. We were discussing how many lights were used for the season. Shawn was calculating linear footage to come up with a number that I cannot remember. He took into account the trees in every room, outside decorations and the crab apples. Discussion was to put more lights on the crab apples next year. Kay left me a message on Thursday at 5:00 that Bill and herself just packed up the last box and with everyones diligent work from the last few days, we wouldn't need to come in on Friday. So for our part, by January 6th, Kingwood Center Christmas 2010 was officially over.
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