Tribune guest columnist Michael O'Brien reports on a family's traditional Christmas plot to 'trap' Santa.
He never succeeded, but he did capture the magic and wonder of the season.Finding a place for Jesus and Santa Claus at Christmastime is challenging.Not in my boyhood home. My Irish-Catholic mother found room at the inn for both.
He used those skills on the farm his grandfather started and later while working at a nearby power plant. Gale’s true passions, however, were the outdoors, his wife, Tammy, their five children and their 16 grandchildren.His identical twin sons-in-law, Clint Morton and Carl Morton, saw those passions up close. They married Gale’s identical twin daughters, Jessica and Jennifer, 20 years ago.
The scheming typically started weeks in advance. Gale would write down ideas and sketch trap designs. On Christmas Eve, he’d caught a reindeer with a rooftop snare and then tied it in a shed to show his family. As he finished, the reindeer kicked Gale in the head and knocked him out. Santa never put Gale on the naughty list for any of these traps but they did develop a friendly rivalry. Santa’s annual notes indicated he understood Gale’s generous underlying motive — helping his grandkids have the best and most memorable Christmas possible.
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