I have a dream every holiday season. It's Christmas Eve, and I'm sitting in front of a roaring fire. Christmas carols are echoing through the living room. Faithful friends who are dear to me gather near to me. The scene is something out of a Hallmark card.
Now if only my fireplace would co-operate.
Unfortunately, the fireplace in my house may as well have been stamped "For Display Purposes Only." The fireplace seems to have been designed by people with only a passing familiarity with fire safety codes. It's built shallow and the hearth is practically non-existant. What I'm trying to say is, one spark from the fireplace and my Christmas tree will be lit up all right, but probably not in the manner that local fire marshals would find advisable. So like millions of apartment dwellers or people who live in fireplace-free homes, it seems that I'll be dreaming of a Yule log-free Christmas.
That is, unless I take this holiday traditional digital.
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