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http://nypost.com/video/nurses-sing-this-preemie-baby-a-touching-christmas-lullaby/
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Merry Christmas, my thoughts and prayers……
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Merry Christmas Col. I’m off to start cooking.
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A little something to help
maintain the energy level. 😉
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Is that crushed bacon on the second one from the left in the back row?
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Mmmmmm…bacon and chocolate…the only two food groups that really matter.
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Biurbon makes the food group complete.
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That is so sweet. Babe in a [modern] manger.
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Thank you Derk…..
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Wow.
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Chag urim sameach, y’all.
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Gut yom tov
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Always nice when the celebration of two Jewish miracles/gifts coincides.
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Words fail me:
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!
“…German women may now purchase rape-deterrent lingerie that keeps out intrusive culture-enrichers and sets off a loud alarm when any hot-blooded “southerner” tries to get past milady’s sartorial defenses…”
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/12/youve-come-a-long-way-baby/
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Here’s the lingerie:
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Man, I’d like to know the backstory on that.
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I not going to ask……..Nye!!!!!!!
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Beat me to it…
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more effective lingerie…
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Funny, I thought the best rape deterrent was a gun. Silly me.
It would be perfect justice if Angela Merkel was made to live right int he middle of a neighborhood of refugees. But being an elite, she never will.
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no one…..repeat….no one….would rape Merkel……my Lord the thought makes me very ill….
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Here’s some brain bleach for you.
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https://twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/811698001429270530
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Wonder when Jack Daniels
will deliver their first drone slurpee? 😉
Meanwhile, those
enjoying a root canal,
might enjoy one of these. 😉
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Just JD straight, no need to sugar coat……
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Must keep the
sweet tooth happy. 😉
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I’ll take mine “neat”
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what’s with the 2 blunts on the table?
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bill and wha’ts-her-name?
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I had difficulty with getting 7-11 to deliver the gasoline to my auto in my driveway via drone, however.
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Almost 3:00 am and beverages are lacking.
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Thank you, Mary.
Gave me the energy for another log. 😉
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Yes…thank you…Mary…but could I get something a little stronger 🍸
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just for pudding shots… 🙂
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I gotta nice bottle of Red Star 112-proof Guo Tou Jiu baiju, a ChiCom distilled spirit that serves a number of purposes, some of the gustatory.
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does that go down well with Kaopectate….?
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Should, I’ll bet it’ll come back up well too.
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Work before play rule.
So, time for another log…
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Impeach!!!! Local temp is 43*, wind SSW at 5,, rain has moved East. Log rack has been restocked. Couple lumps of clean coal added last night are still glowing. Time to go about the day, after I have a cup of coffee……
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Yah, warmed up here too, Colonel. We’re back up to 20* since a thick cloud cover moved in last night. Prolly means more snow in the near future. Time to snuggle down, light a fire in the woodstove and appreciate all the beautifully wrapped packages under the Christmas tree. No where to be until 9 pm Mass, and unlike Menagerie I’m not doing a mountain of cooking. Merry Christmas, Sir!
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Almost done! Got nothing but whipping the sweet potatoes and cooking the ham and turkey left, and I’m doing the turkey tomorrow. Oh yeah, I’ll bake the bread last thing so it will be fresh and hot and make the house smell so good.
It now approaches that special time before Midnight Mass known as drinking and nap time!
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Put your feet up and enjoy a few of those shots nyet has poured for you down below! Wish I were coming to sample the yummies. Somebody else baking the pies? Surely there’s pie…right??
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I don’t know, I gave the dessert making over to two of the daughters in law. It’ll be the first year in a long time without derby pie, but I’m betting they come up with something wonderful.
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Tundra, to you and Captain, Merry Christmas
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Okay, dokay, then…
Time quench the thirst and
make the sweet tooth happy.
Eat:
Drink:
Be of Good Cheer (Merry):
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Mommy?
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Col Ken will be rising shortly,
Time for the old coffee pot.
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Impeach!!! Thank you!!!!
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A blessed Christmas to all of you. Here is my musical offering for Christmas Eve:
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TY Mr. Mike. Beautiful.
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Thank you ZM, and a blessed Christmas, good tidings for the New Year to you…….
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My favorite Christmas song from my childhood. Still makes me weep.
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You too me too. Been a weepy morning, but a “good’ weepy at that.
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For me too. Some of the songs I listen to just make me feel the anticipation and joy so much. Fortunately, I have my playlist interspersed with Snoopy, Alvin, the Grinch, and Cheech and Chong to keep me from bawling all day.
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Menagerie!!
Cheech y Chong?
SMH.
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I love Santa Claus and his old lady.
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Seen on the web:
Dear Alec Baldwin and other Hollywood A-listers,
You exist for my entertainment. Some of you are great eye candy. Some of you can deliver a line with such conviction that you bring tears to my eyes. Some of you can scare the crap out of me. Others make me laugh. But you all have one thing in common, you only have a place in my world to entertain me. That’s it.
You make your living pretending to be someone else. Playing dress up like a 6 year old. You live
in a make believe world in front of a camera. And often when you are away from one too. Your entire existence depends on my patronage.
I’ll crank the organ grinder; you dance.
I don’t really care where you stand on issues. Honestly, your stance matters far less to me than that of my neighbor. You see, you aren’t real. I turn off my TV or shut down my computer and you cease to exist in my world. Once I am done with you, I can put you back in your little box until I want you to entertain me again.
I don’t care that you think the BP executives deserve the death penalty. But I bet you looked cute saying it.
And you? Really? I’m supposed to care what the director of fluffy tripe made for gullible people thinks about global warming or gun control? Get back into your bubble. I’ll let you know when I’m in the mood for something blue and shiny.
Make me laugh, or cry. Scare me. But realize that the only words of yours that matter are scripted. I might agree with some of you from time to time, but it doesn’t matter. In my world, you exist solely for my entertainment.
So, shut your pie hole and dance!”
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Yes…indeed…
SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE
…and entertain me 😎
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Of course they want tickets
It will be the most elegant inauguration ball…ever
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Yeah Stella!!!! Great line; “I’ll crank the organ grinder, you dance”!!!!!
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or this!
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Dear Alec Baldwin. The only thing you ever did worth crap was play Jack Ryan. That fictional character was the closest you’ll ever come to knowing what being a man is all about. The End.
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I got to get the pooper scooper out again and go pick up the Alec Baldwin left in the yard by our doggies
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Mornin’ kids!
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Good ending for and
good riddance to the
(White)House Mouse.
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Mornin’ Peach!
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Morning to you, too, Ms WeeWeed.
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61F here. Unseasonably warm all weekend.
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30.3 °F
The white stuff is falling.
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Christmas is prettier with snow… as long as it doesn’t pile up on the roads…
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No chance of snow here.
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Mice are objecting to being compared to a Rat.
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I thought the mice were vacationing in Hawaii right now…..
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Rats, RATS! Mice gotta union and we’re gonna start hearing from them soon.
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STUART…..STUART LITTLE……now where IS that child???
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Miss Wee. Settled in here at Rancho el Gordito, after my long winter’s nap last night. Feelin’ refreshed and ready to tackle whatever the young’uns throw at me over the next 4-5 days. Back on the ol’ Commodore 64 with removable floppy disk hard drives, so everything computer is running at a much slower pace. Takes me all night long to do what I used to do all night long. Merry Christmas to you and your’n over dere in Cajun Country. 😉
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Backatcha, T! Good to see you had a safe trip home. 😀 Warm ‘n rainy over here…. it’ll be a weird 75* wet Christmas for us tomorrow…. I’ll take it over 20* anyday.
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My weatherman says it’s 62* here, but then, when are they ever right? 😉
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75*, eh? Guess ya’z got some of that glo-bull warming goin’ on over your way. 😆
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76* – so sayeth the local fishwrapper. It ain’t there yet, though. 😀
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!! Cleaned up from barn detail. Enjoying a cup of coffee. I have a short list of supplies and will venture into civilization shortly.
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Mornin’ Colonel. Sounds like Tex, Sr’s. day. He should be heading into town today, after lunch of course, to begin his annual tradition of starting his Christmas shopping. 😆 😆
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I saw one of those memes the other day, the 22nd. It said “Only two more days until men start their shopping.”
Finding that true at work. Overwhelmingly seems men are shopping most for ladies clothes, which they will all bring back day after tomorrow anyhow. Which is why I love gift cards bestest of all.
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Christmas shopping is much easier today…just to to the grocery store stack of prepaid gift cards and grab up the gifts….just put them in an envelope….doesn’t require wrapping…if they don’t like the present, give it to someone else….heck…Merry Christmas from someone to old to giveadamn about folks not liking whatever free stuff I give them….I smile at them anyway. Ho Ho Ho….
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😆 😆 😆
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Hey Tex, just buying some grocery items, stock up on adult refreshments, have lunch over at Hottie’s restaurant with the usual suspects.
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir! Have a bit of venturing to do, myself….
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Morning Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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A blessed Christmas Eve folks.
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This is so inspiring/transcendent. I am drawn very much to the Orthodox faith because of hte intensity of their personal faith. Christmas for them in 2 weeks on their calendar, I believe.
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The Russian Orthodox church is very vibrant here in Alaska, especially in many of the Yup’ik Eskimo villages. They celebrate Russian Christmas as Slaavik (SLAW-vick) from January 7th to the 13th. Every night of that week is a feast night, and 2 or 3 homes in each village host an open house each night (different homes each night). Every home has a shrine in the living room with icons on the wall and the priest leads long rounds of prayer before lots of eating. A hundred people or more are packed into the small houses for these events. The family empties out their freezers to provide the best possible spread, and it is a great honor to have the priest bless their house. Children receive small gifts every night of Slaavik. People spend weeks preparing for it.
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Love it. Such a vibrant faith community.
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The Byzantine Catholic Church celebrates in much the same way. There are no instruments allowed in the church as we are to remember there is nothing between us and God. It is very beautiful.
“Khrystos rozhdayet’sya” “Christ is born”
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The Russian Orthodox churches I have been to often have a piano. What they don’t have is pews or chairs. The congregation stands for the entire service. And their services are known for being long. Two hours is a minimum; some run 4 hours.
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The Byzantine Catholic Church is what I belong to not the Russian Orthodox Church. The BCC is under the Pope but their practice is from the Eastern Rite. Pope John Paul’s mom was a Byzantine Catholic 🙂 Russian Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic are two separate churches.
No instruments. No statues. Only human voices and icons. The church I belonged to did not have pews but it did have chairs, the Byzantine church in DC has pews around the perimeter of the chapel for the elderly or sick.
The mass in my opinion is simply beautiful. Mass at our church was generally 2 hours but we were mostly young families with young children. After mass probably 80% of the people stayed and we would have a potluck lunch and our children would play together.
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Never mind, I think I misunderstood your post. I have never been to a Russian Orthodox service 🙄, My apologies!
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OK, good; I wasn’t suggesting that they were the same or that you were Orthodox. Just commenting on how different Orthodox is from Roman Catholic. I’ve never been to a Byzantine Catholic service or church.
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Merry Christmas Tundra! Have a beautiful night 🙂
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I belonged to the Byzantine Catholic Church for several years, when we moved there was not one available but the Eastern Rite is breathtaking at every mass. Love to chat about it, right now I’m taking a bit of time to visit nt inter-world friends before my lovelies are all awake and we being our Christmas celebration. A Merry and blessed Christmas to you and yours Mike.
“Khrystos rozhdayet’sya” “Christ is born”
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ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS EVE
…in peace love and hope
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Thank you a beautiful Christmas to you and yours 🙂
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Good morning Lovely,
Stunningly beautiful. Aurally and visually, one could fill a museum with the images therein.
Thank you.
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Merry Christmas Derk, Christ is born! I hope you have a beautiful day 🙂
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Had to google this place. On Lake Ladoga in Russia, right next to Finland.
Interesting to see as well, there is a Ladoga here in California. On the East Reservoir, out in no man’s land, not too far south from where I am. I can see a road trip on the horizon, once the snow has melted.
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Imagine how peaceful it is within their wall and to walk their grounds.
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As they say, “I can’t even!”.
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Morning All!
I hope everyone is enjoying either the first day of Chankah and/or Christmas Eve. Dh and I had a traditional Scandinavian(according to my mother) dinner last night so we started celebrating a day in advance. Gifts are wrapped, stockings hung, bread made, Dh’s pound cake baked. It’s all good.
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Mom made this.
Such a treat. 😉
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Christmas eve day my mother made bread. She did something very similar to the recipe above that involved that candied fruit that goes into fruitcake. I liked the plain loaf myself. She would beat up the bread dough, pick it up and slam it on the board, to get the bubbles out. She would also pound on it with a fist. Bread making was violent! One year I pounded the dough so hard I got bloody knuckles… oops… And she made the rice pudding, dinner was plain roast spareribs. Christmas Eve never changed while I was growing up. I feel better now, I can bring back those sweet memories and embrace them. When you think about it… a memory is a kind of gift. 🙂
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your story of bread making sounds like a BLM riot in Baltimore…..lol
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Funny, she wore a hankerchief to keep her hair back… reminded me of a certain urban fashion.
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Dough is made, gotta wrap the presents, turkey is brining. Got to start the vegetables and the wrapping soon. The ham cooks tonight and sits all night. Tomorrow should be easy as pie. Which I don’t have to bake. 😀
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My bread dough was very soft this year, I am not sure what happened. For tomorrow we have a roast, with baked potatoes. Nothing fancy. No pie, nope, I made a pound cake and that is it… enough for just the two of us. Unfortunately we cannot treat our sweet old dog to any leftover beef, or a bone. She may get really, really sick from it.
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put a few bread crumbs in her bowl and pour some beef juice on it…she can do that and will get the taste….old dogs are a gift from God to tell us how our lives should be honored by those that love us…..Merry Christmas to you, and to your sweet doggie.
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Why thanks! A bit of gravy on some potato, that should be ok..
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Or a bit of gravy on her regular food.
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What abou the lutefisk. Please tell me you are having lutefisk. I actually like it. I also like surströmming in the summer (outside, of course — the smell would strip paint off the walls, but the taste is gorgeous).
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“Little David, Play on your Lutefisk…” WHAT???
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Sorry Mr. Mike. I remember my parents were partial to pickled herring… a special treat was the kind that came in cream. I just never liked it.
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I don’t like pickled herring either. LOL!
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I do!
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But do you like surströmming? That’s the real test!
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I never heard of it.
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Lightly decayed/fermented fish in salt. On bread with onions and butter. Aquavit chaser. Mmmmm.
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The only “decayed” food I’ll eat is chocolate with the bloom on it. If that’s all there is in the house.
Fermented is another story altogether…
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Some like;
some don’t.
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Time to polish my boots and put my spurs on!!!! Ms.WeeWeed, did you see that warrant officer (WO) on the banjo……….. thanks…
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DH and I were not sure of his rank – thanks, Colonel!! 😀
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Ranger??
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No, the silver badge above the medals looks “Air Assault”. Another 3 weeks of my life at Ft. Campbell, Ky.
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That was a treat. Thanks, Weed!
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Good, ain’t they??? 😀
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Not bad for Army!
😉
(Amazing, actually.)
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They are outstanding! DH, the retired Coastie, said “Trump should have them play for the inauguration!” Thanks Wee! I love bluegrass pickin’ and grinnin’.
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Ima tell him to tweet that idea to The Donald.
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Tundra, the Army Band should be there, ,the blue tab on their shoulder indicates “President’s Own”.
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Excellent news! Thanks, Colonel.
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https://twitter.com/Boazziz/status/812679837848662016
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For those with lil ones check out this site to track Santa tonight…it’s how I got our children to bed for many years on Christmas Eve 🎅
Merry Christmas!!
http://www.noradsanta.org/
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Democrat Santa hired Boeing to create a 4 billion dollar stealth sled…..trump sent it back and rehired Rudolph to lead the old one…..
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(RumChata)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Christmas Donuts
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Thank heaven for the second photo. That first photo has only two bacon strips (fake ones, I believe) used as ears on the pancakes.
Merry Christmas and thanks for serving breakfast for all of us all of the time! 🙂
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hashbrown potatoes were invented by terrorist detonating a suicide vest while carrying a bag of Irish Potatoes….
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IRAsemble thst comment
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Say, how many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
None.
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You think they’d have discovered vodka.
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Oh, yeah.
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So, with so many of the Irish over here I guess they had to do something with those surplus spuds.
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Hey, I’m part Irish. I’m allowed.
Fisticuffs in South Boston had joiners walking up and asking, quite politely, and in good faith, “Is this a private fight, or can anybody join?”
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Oyr town was largely Polish and French Canadians so visiting Irish relatives had to fight amongst themselves. .
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Now that’s a tuff decision for me
DONUT or BACON 🤔
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Don’t pick between good things. Have both.
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Exactly….
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Awww. so cute. Have to back the Swiss man on this. Adorable yes but….
Hey, being it is Christmas Eve, have one item I really want. My drink listed above, while cute, and I do get the Cali connection, I have never had one in my life. And I’m from NorCal besides.
So, was asking for a change if you would please. Kamikaze, which better describes my temperment and of which I have had a few over the years. Ok a lot over the years. Can’t beat sweetened up vodka!
Thanks Nyet, Merry Christmas to you and yours up there.
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That looks so good. And, I’m having a cookie for dessert. 🙂 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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I had a cookie for dessert. Positively decadent!!
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🙂
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Santa and Rudolph.
Wow!
Just Wow!
Thank you, Nyet
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Not sure I like my breakfast looking back at me…brings up existential questions I don’t care to address that early in the day.
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Just eat the eyes first, like with trout.
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You’re not helping, nyet.
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chocolate Easter bunny…eat the ears first.
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Is why I stopped eating lobster.
(I’m eating him. At least I think it’s a him. But he’s looking at me. While I’m picking the muscles out of his hands and dipping them in butter. While he’s looking at me.)
Nope. I’m done. Quite delicious! But no. Can’t do it.
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Nye!!!!! Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!! Thank you Nye…..
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Merry Christmas Nyet 🙂
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And speaking of favorite Christmas tunes from misspent youth:
Merry Christmas and rest in peace, Walt
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….Nora’ freezin’ on the Trolley ….Swaller Doller Alagaroo
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…oops, forgot the “Cauliflower”….
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Drives me right back to a 50s Christmas
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I had all the Pogo figures that came out of the laundry soap boxes.
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I have a yellow plastic Howland Owl mug. Somewhere….
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“I GO POGO”………original MAGA
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“Tickle salty boss anchovy…” Remember where that version came from, czar?
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The irony is lost…
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/rogue_ones_rebellion_against_the_white_patriarchy.html
Great review and commentary.
This is why I quit watching Hollywood 15 years ago.
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Hollywood propagandists have been at the forefront of prog social engineering for decades. The value of movies and TV programs as tools of cultural change is well established, just look at the proliferation of 90s programs featuring warm, fuzzy LGBT characters to ease the way for the flood of LGBT legislation. A spoonful of sugar…or a giant wad of KY, take your pick.
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Since Father Knows Best, “Dad” has been the idiot.
It’s been downhill since then.
Highlights were Little House, anything Mayberry and The Waltons.
They nipped that in the bud, as Barney Fife would say.
It was called the “Rural Purge”.
It was done for ideological and programming* reasons.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Rural_purge
*(I mean that in the computer-terminology sense)
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The “rural” shows that were purged were deemed to be programming antithetical to their goals.
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Imagine shows with good humor, drama, and yes, even morals-of-the-story — which every TV show has, now — but all showcasing our morals, instead of those of the Progs.
Those all had to go.
Every TV show now still has a Moral-of-the-story at the end, but that message is now, “If you don’t think like a Progressive, then you suck.”
I figured that out 15 years ago. I was 20 years too late.
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Even in the commercials. If there are two guys in a commercial, one black, one white, who is the dope? who is the preternaturally wise person?
Yup. The white guy has to be the dope. It’s in the rules, now.
Print advertisement for chewable vitamins. Buncha kids running in a playground. Guess who is not allowed to be in front of the line of running kids? White boy.
It’s in the rules, now.
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Progs saw straight, white traditional males as the threat. Merely elevating the status of the targeted oppressed group wasn’t enough, the reduction of the targeted oppressor group to drooling idiot status was necessary to speed the process and seal the deal. Dad was reduced to the buffoon while Mom was elevated to martyr. Later on we started seeing martyr Mom and kids being abandoned to founder on the rocks of cruel reality while feral Lothario dad rins off with Jennifer.
Not having geen satisfied with ruining the black nuclear family the progs set sights on the whites…and here we are.
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Morning Stella and all,
‘Tis truly the season, and I thank you and all who pass through here for the richness you give out during the year or so being here.
Good story thanks to I believe it was Amwick. I shared the coffee thing a few weeks back, how good Starbucks Thanksgiving coffee was, but no longer available, and shown site online to purchase. I did, bought 2 pounds, wrapped one for my daughter and stashed the other in my sock drawer so she wouldn’t see.
Last night she asked if I wanted an early gift, and of course said yes. To my surprise she produced a pound of same coffee! She had been to a random Starbucks and there were 2 left on the shelf! I then went and got hers from under the tree, and we both shared a treasured moment.
So thank you.
Merry Christmas all, have a great one!
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Awesome story, Derk.
😀
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Nice. But I’m really glad I don’t live across the street from those folks.
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Such a nice story, but it wasn’t me that shared a coffee link. Mine was Collins street bakery. 🙂
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FRUITCAKE OF THE STARS…….!!!!!!! Collins Street Bakery….
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Merry Christmas. 😉
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😆
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T’was you!
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🙂
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Al Copeland, orginator of Popeye’s chicken, used to put on a Christmas light show at his suburban NOLA house each year. Year after year it growed a wee bit more largerer until the traffic congestion it caused from people driving in from all over made the neighbors take him to court.
After a few years of legal wrangling, during which time it continued to grow, he ended up taking it to a local park where it could be appreciated for its vastness…and could still be seen from space. It were a critter.
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The French Connection
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Shoulda looked here first. This was the last display before Katrina. Imagine this on a lawn in your neighborhood and hundreds of cars going down your street at a crawl:
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Beautiful story Derk 🙂
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Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!
Now I’m off to slave away in the kitchen. 🙂
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Listen ’til the end. Big speakers.
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And from the heart of the South, number one on the local holiday list:
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Saw this link from Drudge.
http://www.seeker.com/5000-year-old-nativity-scene-found-2161058490.html
He makes the assumption the star is in the east because it’s to the right. I don’t know if that’s a valid assumption, since Israeli maps have east at the top, so the right would be south. East at the top makes sense before the discovery of magnetic north, or observations that the north star stays fixed while other stars rotate around it during the night. East is where the sun rises, so it’s a good reference point. I suspect that historically, it’s not just the Israelis that have east at the top of their maps.
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“5,000-year-old rock art that depicts…” where a really big spider was squashed at the top of the cave, and fed to the baby. It’s just so stupid that people accept something out of context without question.
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SPIDER!!!…..
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Right now, there are people making YouTube videos claiming that both the Russian-ambassador-shooting and the Articulated-Lorry-slaughter were both faked.
I mean, like Sandy Hook Elementary faked. (As it were.)
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At this point, I’m just like: “Hey! There’s some more music I haven’t listened to yet!”
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Why?
This is 7016, yes?
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Mel Blanc, for the win.
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Even Mel Blanc is, although fun to watch, ragging on The Twelve Days of Christmas here, which is very symbolic of truth. Mel Blanc’s version is postmodernism by folks who don’t or cannot understand truth.
Our cultural programming started a long time ago.
(I just created another Jackson Pollock painting! Then I flushed.)
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https://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/TWELVDAY.TXT
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The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith.
The “true love” mentioned in the song doesn’t refer to an earthly
suitor, it refers to God Himself. The “me” who receives the
presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear
tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is
symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury
to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of
the expression of Christ’s sadness over the fate of Jerusalem:
“Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under
my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it
so…”
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the
“Pentateuch”, which gives the history of man’s fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven
sacraments 8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the
Apostle’s Creed.
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Thanks Wooly! I have never heard that before. Somehow doesn’t surprise me.
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Is your Christmas tree Phloxed?
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Tell you what. F’n pot-head.
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Willie rolled up the Frankencense, for sure.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Phlox. !!
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#mrphlox
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Wooly how about some “Elvis”………
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Blue Christmas…
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I’m dreaming… of an alt-right Christmas… just like the ones I used to know…
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Merry Christmas, Col.
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Merry Christmas Wooly! Thanks…..
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I go back like a porch swing.
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One of those gliders, with the all-weather cushions on it.
Way back.
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(That’s a Christian song, BTW. Crypto.)
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Kinda like the Twelve Days song was crypto. And Croissants. And Pretzels. And Hot Cross Buns. And dag-nabbit now I’m thinking about Nyet’s b’fast.
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This one is on my playlist, different artist.
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Got this one too, but I still love the Seeger best.
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Is good, yes.
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It ain’t Christmas without Dean.
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Christ has come into the world…
“Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” [Luke 3:5-6]
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(Posted now on case there’s no time later…)
Christmas blessings on everyone here!!!
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So nice..
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If you click on this, and hit Play, you can’t help but reach out and grab whatever guitar is closest, and just jam. Irresistible.
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“in”. Almost–but not quite–like “there was no place in the…”
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This one is worth watching for the beautiful pictures included. But I’m partial to my former home state a little bit.
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Merry Christmas to All!!! My Christmas wish, and it’s a wish that hopefully we carry thoughtout the year. Please keep our men/women who are serving, have served, retired, and have passed in our thoughts and prayers. Without their sacrifices we as a nation would not survive. My personal thanks to all Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coastguardmens, and Airmen.. God Bless You all.
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My prayers that those all, finally, have an honorable Commander in Chief, who wants them to actually WIN.
Watch the suicide rate drop.
My prayers to the cops. When you see folks waving to you, who don’t even know you, know that we’re on your side, fully. Be safe.
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Merry Christmas, Col Ken.
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Merry Christmas, Col. 🙂
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Merry Christmas. Stellars.
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All adults at home now. Went to Christmas Eve church service, came home and had CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER instead of all the food tomorrow, opened presents under the tree…and gave a bag of goodies to the adult kids and said that would have been in your stocking, so just eat the junk now or in the morning….I am sleeping IN on Christmas Day, other than having to feed the dogs who have no idea about sleeping in when it is time for a good pee and a big breakfast even if there is a hurricane hitting so mostly, Christmas Day is going to be a Day of Peace and Calm and NO HIGH DRAMA going on HERE….Hallelujah….He is born, and I am still napping.
Merry Christmas to ALL….this is such a special place full of all special people.
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ROTFLOL
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Joy, it seems, is the motto for this time of year.
This place has a lot of it.
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He is born, and I am still napping.
Yeah. Story of my life.
I like napping.
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LOL I am getting up early tomorrow morning to drive 30 min to meet a friend and then drive another 45 min to eat with some of her liberal friends at a restaurant in another town that is the same restaurant that I could have eaten at 10 min from my apt. Sounds like fun, huh?
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But, I must say, this is still MUCH better than whatever I did last year when Obama was supposed to be in charge.
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