Between a compressed work week and holiday activity, I’ve taken a de facto week off. I do want to take a moment to wish you and yours the happiest of holidays. Thank you for visiting with me here and for all your kind words and your interest in Arlo & Janis; I’m very humbled. Now, go and be merry!
Merry Christmas!
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39 responses to “Merry Christmas!”
I’ve always liked an allegedly Native American saying that’s something like “Perhaps they are not stars but rather holes where the love of our lost ones shines through to let us know that they are happy.”
That’s a lovely metaphor. However, they are suns, and those smaller than Sol are the most numerous and also the longest lived. Many have been shown to have planets. It’s easiest to find large planets, but techniques and instruments are getting better, and planets only somewhat larger than Earth are out there, in all likelihood billions of them. Some of those may actually be more suitable for life in the long haul than Earth is. [We have less than a billion years left.] Good article in the January ’15 Scientific American on that. Which reminds me, it needs a Letter to the Editor on one point.
Peace, emb
Jackie, now you are the rock and eagle for your daughters and their children. Take your example from Mike and do your best. And as Spider Robinson wrote, shared joy is increased and shared pain is lessened. So don’t let your pain box you in, but talk to people when you need to. Especially when you don’t feel like it!
Jackie…I left you a message at the end of “Fool me once” strip/blog.
love, debbe
Good morning Villagers…
I wished all a Merry Christmas at the “Fool me once” strip/blog.
But it is a great gift JJ gave us…a special Christmas day retro…I love it.
Today’s real time strip is me at the kitchen island, preparing lunches or such, and my black and white cat…big boy Buddee….just sits there and meows until I throw him a sliver of something. He sniffs….and then little Goldee snatches it away from him….snooze you loose I say to him.
GR 😉 did you also play Brenda Lee’s “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree”? I did. And I think you did too.
And it’s “Boxing Day” in Canada….just what is “Boxing Day”?
Ya’ll have a blessed day……
🙂 http://cheezburger.com/8328707328
Happy Boxing Day to all – this is the day when the “Staff” (think upstairs = downstairs) got a day off and received their Christmas “boxes” from their employers. The staff also had the opportunity to visit their neighbors to collect additional Christmas boxes and just generally have a good time. It’s an English thing, but the Canadians (being so close to America) have stretched this into Boxing Week with sales and festivities. In England, we are more likely to keep it to this day when businesses and shops/stores are closed … but alas, we are also learning from America, and the stores takes advantage of sales offers for the whole week.
Debbe, it is exactly the situation we had with our big orange and white cat, Bama. My ex liked the peel and eat kind of shrimp that you get frozen in bags. She would put it a colander and thaw it under running water while shaking the colander. Bama would come running and yowl like somebody was pulling his tail till he got his share.
My cats will not eat “people food”, with one exception. At 10 pm (and she knows when it is 10pm as much as she knows when it is 5:30 am) Cilla will come to me and politely ask for a small squirt of Reddi-whip on a saucer. No store brand or lo-cal version accepted. Twice a year, when the time changes, it takes about a week for her to adjust to the new time.
Debbe 😉 Really, hon? An R-rated cheezburger? Really? Expect a call from A&J Standards and Practices.
When it comes, tell them that Ghost said, “We can has sexually-themed cheezburger if we wants.”
Reminds me of a joke. (I know, what doesn’t?)
Q. What are the three worst words in the world you can hear while making love?
A. “Honey, I’m home!”
Today is also the Feast of St. Steven (from Royal Oak). Although I believe that I have over feasted since Monday (my birthday) Stepen was a great martyr of the very early church and deserves a special day.
Also, I have never quite understood the spelling of Stephen. My Mom named me after her Grandfather who spelled it that way. When asked for the spelling on the birth certificate, she said “with a “v”” as she did not want my name to be Steffen.
Happy Boxing Day! I am paying this morning for the over indulgence of yesterday.
Here’s hoping my Hb A1C reading next Monday won’t suffer too much from yesterday’s overindulgence!