So yeah, it snowed early early this morning, and it's supposed to snow again this afternoon, and then turn to freezing sludge overnight--and yeah, that completely doesn't work for me but oh well. It's gonna do what it's gonna do whether I rail at the skies or smile into them, so...smiling's good ( Read more... )

I didn't tell my parents what they were having for Christmas dinner. I just asked them if they had plenty of napkins and a bottle of ketchup ( Read more... )

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Forever and for always, Honey.

I just got finished baking the lemon meringue pie for tomorrow. It looks yum, if I do say so myself, and it was easy peasy, and even the meringue came out perfectly--washed the bowl and the whisk with white vinegar, remembered the cream of tartar this time, added the sugar slowly. It's all foofy and pretty on top, with those little points of ( Read more... )

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Finally got myself together enough to crank the clootie creation this morning, so it's now down there steaming away, as it will be until about 2 ( Read more... )

One of my favorite Christmas carols, sung exactly the way I like a Christmas carol sung--a capella...

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In our spot on the hill, there is one Saturday afternoon, right before Christmas, when the whole area sounds like we are enduring a massive conflagration, with sirens blaring and whooping so loud that you can hear it bouncing off the mountain as well as right up in your face ( Read more... )

All the cookie boxes are packed up, all the reindeer food is jarred up, everything is in readiness for gifting tomorrow ( Read more... )

The annual abduction of the Baby Jesus has occurred at the Nativity display on Independence Mall....

Let the festivities begin!

:-)

It just isn't Christmas until somebody kidnaps a plastic Jesus.