Posted on 12/24/2023 3:10:51 PM PST by Skooz
Depends on the day.🤣
New York finally catching on.
I understand, happy wife happy life.
A couple of raccoons came out of the woods and up to the deck in the wee hours, looking for something edible. What they found was a new, unopened 10 lb bag of the food-grade diatomaceous earth I use for organic/natural control of bugs, because this is a rural area with wildlife, and the river is just yards away-poison use is a definite “no”. The raiders tore into the bag, scattering white powder all over the deck from back door to the steps, leaving only their pawprints in it as they departed. So I had a productive morning, sweeping up as much diatomaceous earth as I could, then putting that and what was left in the bag into a plastic bin with a locking lid. At least I won’t have any insect pests around the area or house until Spring or later...
I’m not doing turkey for dinner-just a healthy, organic unprocessed meal-grilling a thick-cut grass-fed ribeye steak very rare, steamed fresh brussels sprouts with butter, baby greens, onion, avocado and tomato for a salad and a glass of Merlot...
Merry Christmas, y’all who are alone, and those who are not-we are all God’s children and deserving of His love...
Looks like I’m posting number 285 — so, there’s quite few of us, it seems.
My soulmate, “Eda”, passed away of very bad cancer on August 29th. 43 years. We are both 79.
My first Christmas alone. “Lonely” has an all-new Meaning to me now.
There’s Fred the cat (and love sponge. Thank God for him...) American shorthair “tuxedo cat. Eda picked him out at the rescue center.
One day at a time...
I hope Heaven is a place of endless forgiving and love, and we’ll be together again.
Else... What’s a Heaven for?
May God bless and sustain all who read this.
“Fred the cat (and love sponge. Thank God for him...) American shorthair “tuxedo cat. “
I’m glad for you that Fred is a tuxedo; he will help you. Our tuxedo, Fiona, was my favorite cat. They seem to have a special way of bonding.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas
DH and I had pneumonia together one year, and if it weren’t for having to keep the animals fed, we’d have just curled up and died. So I guess the animals saved our lives in a way.
Do you have any lifeline through family or church in this emergency? Just in case?
“Massachusetts Puritans didn’t celebrate Christmas. “
Right. They were very anti-Christmas, mainly because the “mas” = “mass”. They had extremely unkind things to say about the pope.
Sweet story.
And if you think those 80-year-old men were badasses, you should see their wives. Those are the ladies who taught Sunday School, and some of the nun schoolteacher stories I read here remind me of them.
Next time she goes galavanting she'll be using this, 1% povidone iodine nasal spray.
I guess in the spirit of things I might post a poem I did a while back:
A Poem by The Big Boo
The Night Divine
It's a traveling night
I said to my companions
We have to make tracks
Be there before the sun is back.
So we followed the brightest star
Shinning against the shimmering snow
Looking for the little town
And manger in the valley below.
You were dreaming she said
As I awoke in a start
Mumbling about peace and joy
And the birth of a little boy.
Yep, I said, seems to happen to me
About this time every year
Then I see you and realize
That Christmas is already here.
So to you and your loved ones
Whether they are near or far
We wish you a merry Christmas and
Blessings of peace throughout the year.
The Big Boo and Boo
“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Merry Christmas FRiend. I was with family both nights, but perhaps you might find a good audio book to help in breaking some of the silence, when the movie concludes.
We made this. An FR original.
https://librivox.org/life-and-times-of-joseph-warren-by-richard-frothingham-jr/
“Right. They were very anti-Christmas, mainly because the “mas” = “mass”. They had extremely unkind things to say about the pope.”
I don’t know how disliking the Pope had any bearing on the Puritan’s Christmas-hating.
The Protestants of Virginia and the rest of the British Colonies shared an anti-Catholic sentiment but they happily celebrated Christmas, unlike the joyless witch killing weirdos of Plymouth.
Moreover “Massachusetts” is an Indian word and totally unrelated to the Catholic “Mass”.
I have lived in MA my entire life….I never heard anyone thinking Mass was in any way related to the Catholic mass .
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You need to bone up on that history, and then you’d know the significance (insignificance?) of the pope to them.
The Protestants of VA, and sects in the Colonies, are not the Puritans. The topic here is the Puritans.
So you’re saying that Puritan hatred of the Pope was their reason for hating Christmas?
Did the Puritans hate the Lutherans and Anglicans and other Christmas celebrators too?
Well actually they probably did, since banishing people who weren’t in complete agreement with Puritan doctrine was one of their practices.
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