They recently did the annual story on where this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is coming from. It is usually a Norway spruce, donated by a family that has one large enough to spare. And this year is no exception.
The 10-ton 78 foot Norway spruce is being donated by the Asendorf family from Gardiner, New York, a town 80 miles north of New York City in Ulster County. It can be quite rural up there. People go deer hunting.
The Asendorf's were going to cut the tree down last year, but it seemed to have come to the attention of Rockefeller Center's talent scouts, and the tree remained for another year on their property and just just harvested and transported to the City. It's being decorated now, and will certainly be reasy for the tree lighting ceremony on Wednesday, December 2.
As anyone who follows these things might now know, the tree lighting has gone from a fairly simple push of button at 5 P.M. to an NBC variety show extravaganza that puts the illumination moments before 9 P.M. It is no less of a pretty tree no matter when they light it, it's just more evidence that there isn't anything that can't he overdone. And TV in search of ad revenue can certainly do that.
And also as anyone who follows these things also knows, Jose, one of the Assembled, has a thing for numbers, particularly 7/1, 1/7 exactas.
I know the name of the town where Jose lives in Rockland County. I thought it was Gardiner's, making this year's tree a near miss for being 71 feet and fitting into Jose's view of the world.
But Jose lives in Garnerville, invalidating the 7/1, 1/7 numerolgy as it might apply to Christmas trees connected to Jose. That would have been cosmic, to say the least.
Garnerville and Gardiner's. The words are much alike. They still are.
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