| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
|
Locked on 01/03/2008 6:41:54 PM PST by Admin Moderator, reason:
Please direct your comments here: |
Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
We’ll be having a Domestic-Diva-Lil’Freeper-Is-On-Strike Christmas this year. Past couple of years I’ve pulled out all the stops on Currier&Ives/Burl Ives-type Christmasses... to a lukewarm response. I’m sick of making goodies for family and friends only to have them take the plate of cookies to work and leave it in the break room at work the next day - *every* year. So this year I’m going on strike. Family gets a single cookie and a Target gift card (no bow, I’m debating even about an envelope). Local friends will contemplate life with no cookies. Harumph. The Christmas tree is going to be the ultimate symbol of my rebellion: a non-traditional crazy color scheme based on the wonderful, fun, Oaxacan theme tree in the La Posta Restaurant (Las Cruces, NM) last year. It should raise some eyebrows. Ayi-yi-yi-yi!
OB just reported that one of the local weatherweenies said, in response to questions about the storm “Well, I sure didn’t see that one coming”. LOL
LSA
I think that a good idea! You sure knock yourself out every year, and, if it’s not appreciated, well, you know.
LSA
Woo-hoo! You go! Make sure you have fun too!
Cookies....mmmmmm...
Well Merry Bah Humbug to you too!
Actually, I applaud your attitude. We’re already in over our head for Christmas. Yes, I know, I know, I know. But it’s what we do.
We’ve been added as group leaders this year and had our third meeting for the show already this past Monday. And, as if that isn’t enough, the choir is recording a Christmas CD. So, when normally we don’t return to choir rehearsal until after Labor Day, we’ve already started working on that.
I told the Mrs. that we have until Labor Day to get organized/house clean, etc., etc., etc. or I’m dropping out.
Mmmm...cookies...
Ungh...I’m chickening out on riding in today. Having trouble getting a move on.
Maybe I’ll make myself an omelet instead. That’s logical, isn’t it?
Heh, sounds GREAT!
Good morning, HH.
Is it a good morning? I hadn’t decided yet.
It must have been disturbing to whoever found it!
Yah...and I’m not sure what the text means, but it can’t be good...
In the living room we had a reclining love seat with a matching recliner, a little wooden book shelf, a full sized student classroom desk, a little "elementary sized" classroom desk, a lamp table, an entertainment center and a 92" couch that I had when I was a child and went through the Deluge of 1979. It had holes in it! It sagged almost to the floor! It was admittely a very comfy couch to sleep on.
I got up and proceeded to drag that couch out into the front yard.
Steve started protesting..."Don't get rid of the couch! I love that couch!"
"Put it in the shop then, I don't care! It cannot be in this house one minute longer" replied I, heartlessly.
He put it in the back of the truck and hauled it around and put it in the shop.
He didn't speak to me for the rest of the evening. Heh heh!
I also got rid of the lamp table. Put the lamp on top of the little book shelf.
There was a little hint of fall in the air this morning, I must say! We’re putting the remaining sheathing on the back wall of the kitchen today, and will start the installation of the double window and the french door. Don’t know if we’ll get both in, but we’ll try! It is SO bright in there right now!
We have an antique rocker that wife doesn’t want to get rid of, that’s in the way and keeps getting moved. Then there’s the poster sized framed print of Jesus (the one from your Sunday School class), that Nana and Papa had in their house. How do you get rid of that?
And don’t get me started about Nana’s recliner...
But, we’re in the process of buying/building an outdoor storage shed. Hopefully I’ll have that in the next few weeks.
Well, I thought the temperature was going to get up into the 100s today and now they’re saying only 95. So far it’s starting out to be a good day!
“Only” is not a word that belongs in front of “95 degrees”, unless you’re talking something other than weather.
I'm sure that after we move back to MS, our Christmases will be a lot busier. I'm used to just doing for our kids and us, as far as decorating and gifts are concerned, and frankly, the kids enjoyed this Christmas, when our big tree was packed in the trailer, and we only had a little tree in a wooden container, and I could only put about 8 ornaments on it, because that's all I had that were not packed. ;o) #2 son said he was glad they didn't have to help decorate the tree with my 6000 ornaments. Smart alek; I only have about 1000!
The biggest difference will be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. For the last 10 years, we've sung Midnight Mass with the Festival Choir, and after Mass, we always have a party down in the Parish Hall. Usually, we make it home about 3 in the morning, do St. Nick, open a gift, then hit the hay. We typically roll out of bed about noon, then we open the rest of the gifts, I put "Messiah" in the CD player and start cooking.
I don't think SirKit's brother does Midnight Mass at his Parish. I think they do a 9pm Mass, so that folks get home before midnight. He also likes doing it that way, so he doesn't have folks wandering in drunk after a Christmas Eve party, which is what used to happen at my home parish. Folks can also bring their kids, who will inevitably crash after Mass, and the parents can do their St. Nick thing, and the kids are less likely to wake up at 5 am!
But we'll have family close by, so we'll be doing more Christmas Day dinners, which I'm really going to enjoy, since I haven't had to do them for the last 30 years!
*snort*
It’s already 95 here. But we’re “only” supposed to get up to 99. With a heat index of 110.
That wasn't very nice.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.