Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for December 18, 2012

Here, people can get their Christmas trees from under the power lines where they won’t be allowed to grow big anyway.

I can see the “You Might Like…” suggestions, but I might prefer to see the cartoon.

When you talk about your cats, I always picture your household. Now I’m laughing picturing 5 cats in a tree.

Fortunately most Christmas trees are grown just for that purpose like cows are grown for beef. I remember when our company went ‘paperless’ – we generated more paper than ever – sorry trees.

One of the reasons that we use more paper in the computer generation is that computers have accelerated the amount of work that can be done in a fixed amount of time. The bulk of that type of work is to be documented and shared. It easier to print out 20 sets of drawing plans now that it was during the days of using blueline machines and hand drawn plans. All of this increased productivity requires documentation, which uses more paper.

I’ve hadn’t had a Christmas tree at my home in years, and I miss it.

We have the capability to fill all our paper needs without cutting down one tree. That this may never happen is a testament to human ignorance.

Do it on the computer and zip it to an external hard drive. One terabyte should be enough.

As for Christmas trees, our trees are collected and taken down to the coast to help fight erosion.