Yesterday, Steve from Royal Oak immediately picked up on the same thoughts I was having as I dug up this old series, specifically how difficult it was, in my youth, to get to know a girl over the phone. Or at least how difficult it seemed! I think I launch far too many old-fogey threads as it is, but I think it’s a worthwhile subject: what is it like for kids today, who are connected, individually and collectively, to one another on a constant basis? You want to talk about a societal ground-shift. Or maybe it’s just as difficult today to cold text that cute young thing in third period algebra.
181 responses to “The Christmas Caller II”
It is just now 6:58 and I am going for a nap. Then I get up and stay awake until the new comics come on, go back to bed again.
Of course I have to throw the clean clothes in the dryer, the dirty ones in washer and make the bed up again.
Of course I could just fall into the dirty sheets full of cat hair.
Love, Jackie
@Jerry in Fl
You probably saw the space station going over.
That was my guess. Would that be the right direction? Hostage situation in Sydney, Australia. Until he quit his job recently my son was frequently near that location.
Except for the bldgs., I expect this is what N. MN has looked like for the last 3-4 days. Not much topography to stick up through the fog, except up in NE MN. It’s especially flat over Lake Agassiz.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dense-fog-brought-dallas-standstill/story?id=27482764
Also, day highs in the 40sF, most snow on the ground is gone. Snow that will stay may show up before 25 Dec.; at present, we expect ‘wintry mix’ [= one or another irksome combo of rain, snow, and sleet]. No wind, though, when it’s foggy.
There are worse things than below 0 temps.
Peace, emb
Jerry in FL, good catch. Should have written If, like me, you are fans of a certain cantankerous duck…
Thinking that spy (excuse me, surveillance) satellites use polar orbits, thereby covering the entire Earth as it revolves.
Jackie, you are the first person I’ve known to operate on Comics Standard Time.
And another carol to add to the list. I love this particular version, especially the camels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIFTtW1pko
Ghost Sweetie, that’s one of my favorite Christmas stories!
With five inside cats and four outside ones, and all but two of them kin, I have one black cat (Malkin) several black and white ones, and two black-and-gray striped ones with cream undersides. Of the other two, one is orange with gold eyes (Pumpkin) and the other-Toby-is a Tuxedo cat, but instead of being black and white, he is dark gray and white.
I didn’t want to risk Moderation Heck, so this one has it’s own post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTnTVdEe_3M
Ghost Sweetie, you’re almost right. It has to be Sunbeam bread!
Sunbeam white bread, mayo, but is the baloney fried?
Fried is for breakfast only. Otherwise, it’s bologna tartar.
Trapper Jean, thanks for the claymation Christmas link. Never saw that one. You’re right, the camels really make that version!
I went back outside and saw one shooting star. I found the object that I saw before and kept checking on it. At the same time I was watching a DVR’d episode of How the Universe Works, picturing the perceived motion of the stars as the earth rotates and at the same time picture in my mind an object in a set orbit and how its perceived background will move and all of this while I’m trying to wrap my mind around quantum mechanics. All I can say is too soon old and too late curious about things that my younger mind might have grasped, but no longer. My problem is that I never focused on one thing and now I know a little about many things but not a lot about anything.
So much to learn, so little time.
Trapper Jean – That is from the California Raisin Christmas Special. One of my favorites. The best part is the reoccurring gag with the two “hosts.” The one slowly loses his cool as various other characters mangle the lyrics to ” Here We Come A Wassailing.” The whole thing is on YouTube.
Fell asleep on the couch right after work yesterday. Woke up at 1:30 this morning. Guess I will go in early.
Good morning Villagers….
Indy Mindy, you must have been one tired puppy when you got off work…do take care of yourself, Blacklight needs you.
Is this one on your play list GR 😉 ?
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=you+tube+brenda+lee+christmas+songs&ei=UTF-8&fr=chr-greentree_ff&ilc=12&type=714647
And it’s Monday….
ya’ll have a blessed day
Well, technically, it’s Claymation Christmas, but yeah. If you have a half hour to kill, here’so a link to the whole thing.
CALIFORNIA RAISINS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: http://youtu.be/Q9qfSpwLsf8
Debbe – Being nocturnal with a day job does that to you. And yeah, I think you set the most consecutive posts award. 🙂 Yay Monday! ( YUCK! 😛 )
Mondays?
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3144/2753176276_588f693923.jpg
Debbe, Trapper Jean and Mindy from Indy, here’s a nice song about the changing seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUPYg-Sa5IQ
OF blowing, I think; wind is toward the cam.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
New camera operator doing OJT, perhaps?
Well, my internal alarm clock messed up and my six o’clock nap ended at about two something in morning, so I said what the heck? and went back to sleep. I got the sheets changed before I fell into the bed with cats and dog but they aren’t washed, still on bathroom floor and the blanket was in the washer so I ended up sleeping in my clothes with no blanket! This confused animals, who ended up mostly cuddling all night which helped.
Picking up where I left off, it rained seriously here last night and I see the stone mason helper out with a shovel, so I am assuming the leaves from all the neighbors are down in the new drain to the ditch! This is why the new ditch has no ponds nor waterfalls nor recirculation features. We will be lucky if leaves are all that go in, usually there are a lot of beer and soda cans, fast food cups, and similar debris.
That and fact Mike observed early on that any carp would be washed into the lake with first big storm.
Love, Jackie
Mark, thanks for the link! What a neat song!
Mindy, yes, I just forgot to say Claymation or California Raisins. I beg lateness of hour. And yes, the “waffling” is always funny. 🙂
Ghost Sweetie, how about this one: fry the bologna without cutting the edges and it makes a little cup, then put a good spoonful of mashed potatoes in the cup, and one of green peas over that. My mom used to do that for her canasta parties.