Christmas comes but once a year---or so we were told many years ago. But it seems with the ever-increasing rate at which we proceed through the days, weeks, and years of the calendar, Christmas must now come twice a year. Looking around on December 23, it appears that we have taken down all the Christmas decorations and stowed them away for another year. But no, that can't be true, it must have been that we never dragged the decorations out of the closet and put them on display. Display, display, that's the key word. We recall that we were going to decorate the gate at the road front but decided against this display because so few travelers or neighbors come down our dead-end street that it would not be worthwhile. Must be the same for all the decorations in the house because they never made it out of the closet this year. That sure makes putting them back in the closet mid-January an easy task. When visiting the surrounding towns, it is apparen...