Yummy eye candy served up for Christmas. Enjoy!
Posted on 12/21/2018 10:16:29 PM PST by ransomnote
True. I stood in the window and the reality of it hit me like a ton of bricks. It's not possible to get a good aim from that window. They don't let people get in the window these days so many of the window pics online from a window further south and that window just happens to give a better aim.
Thanks Texokie! The practice is essential. Don’t want to have too many bad notes. When you play lots of songs, there are so many key changes. Last year I didn’t bring music or glasses and many were disappointed. Maybe next year we will have Christmas here. My piano is awesome. Mom’s is the one I learned on and I thought it was nice. Until I played a Steinway. Couldn’t afford one but found a wonderful quality circa 1919 baby grand 5 years ago that was meant to be mine. Little known name these days, a Schomacher. It turns 100 years old soon, looks new. Black satin finish and came with tufted leather duet bench that’s really comfy.
Merry Christmas and a Trumpy New Year!
Favorite song I can sing - Silent Night.
Though (or because!) she doesn't work at the facility, Gisela has been of unbelievable assistance to my mother, whose stroke necessitated the move to assisted living. Mom was unhappy about the move and is often confused due to the stroke. Gisela has often consoled her and guided her. My mother was always the strong one, so my otherwise alert father seems almost oblivious to her weakened condition. Gisela gives her the love and support that she wouldn't otherwise get in their institutional environment.
We included Gisela in our little Christmas celebration and took her out for what seems to be the favorite dinner of Canadian seniors: fish and chips. My parents also gave her a gift certificate for taxi service, as Gisela's biggest regret is having given up her car and driver's license.
Monday morning I got up early and headed for the airport in the Canadian darkness. On the way I listened to a CBC radio "expert" advise Canadians on how to maintain harmony around the Christmas dinner table, even if someone brought up Donald Trump. (Trump lives rent-free in the mind of every Canadian.)
Now I'm back in Arizona. While I was away, my astrophysicist son returned from California for the holidays. He's recovering from the flu, so coughs regularly. About the time he returned, my wife came down with a bad cold, and then they ended up taking one of our five cats to the emergency veterinary clinic for what turned out to be a kidney problem. Fortunately, in the AZLIberty recovery ward, everyone is now getting better.
Despite her cold, Mrs. AZLiberty has been busy in the kitchen with the cornbread, the turkey, and what's known in her family as "cranberry glop" -- a kind of cranberry trifle with marshmallows, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, and whipped cream. When it's served, we top it with chopped toasted pecans. Due to her illness, I was responsible for the early preparation last night. Of course I didn't do it quite right, but it will probably turn out OK anyway.
A year ago, Mrs. AZ brought her mother and brother from Amarillo to Arizona. Her brother suffered a head injury 35 years ago, soon after joining the Air Force, and has been living with their mother all that time. Now 86 and 55, they were unable to maintain their house in Amarillo, and they now live in an apartment near us. They will be joining us for Christmas dinner.
After dinner we will probably drive down to Oro Valley (a Tucson suburb) for a third Christmas, to visit daughter and son-in-law, who have just bought a new house with a beautiful mountain view. They were hoping to host Christmas themselves, but it's just too soon, especially since they're trying to clear out their old apartment by the end of the month. We'll bring them Christmas dinner and spend a short time with them before leaving them to their work. We offered help, but they want to "avoid outside entanglements" on such a delicate task.
The children have been out of the house for a while and we have always lived far away from relatives. But now that we're close to retirement -- and our parents are really old -- it seems that family is become a bigger and bigger part of our lives. Daughter is planning grandchildren, so we're considering moving down their way, bringing the in-laws along. We may get one of those new home-within-a-home houses having a built-in guest suite but separate entrances. Due to health insurance issues, my parents are probably going to have to stay in Canada, but otherwise we would consider bringing them into the picture as well.
What a glorious time of the year! Merry Christmas!
Good article... very practical. Twice GOP leadership have forced POTUS into a holiday decision, and they proved it by passing their CR and then leaving for home for the holidays - presuming they had trapped POTUS into surrendering... which would have likely signaled the end of the Trump Presidency.
The Congress is full of do-nothing carpetbaggers.
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:) !!!!!! Mother of Dragons is the absolute BEST!!!!!
Ohh Good ones. I can’t sing Ave Maria either. Silent Night. Maybe, softly. :)
“””Re God Laughs:
Very special. Thank you!”””
YW.
“Kiss the Son”
Laugh and take part in the Joy today that you are blessed as His own. More blessed are you than Doubting Thomas. :)
#onyourteam
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“””Some beautiful photos in your posts. And the water, it’s like glass!”””
Always drawn to water. Lights on the water. Smoke on the water. The night air across the water. The sound of a slalom water ski cutting across the glass.
Pepes in harmony.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, All!
Oh, Ditto!
Ave Maria, by a mile.
Silent Night, as well. It’s so lovely, however, when it is sung well, I can’t sing it for choking up.
amgreatness is becoming a GO TO site for me. Extraordinary information, and I mean *informed* info, with plenty of RESOLVE going on over there!
Poor DRUDGE is finished. The DS certainly got a hold on him. Matt and Justice Roberts have apparently a LOT in common trying to cut Trump off at the knees. Very disappointing, but they are not on the Trump side of anything.
Bear with me I’m a metal head.
Christmas song I wish I could sing?
This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ps0SdWyNw
Chistmas song I can sing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtn7Y1g209U
-SB
I have to run out> Will be back later to check out everyones songs! Merry Christmas everyone!
Yummy eye candy served up for Christmas. Enjoy!
PAIN?
Bagster
*Arm in arm, mairdie and Texokie walk to the residential quarters of the Qanteen.*
Dude. Is this movie fidna get an R rating, or what?
#MyKindaFlick...
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LOL! YIKES!
um - no.
#G-ratedalltheway
#youKNEWthat!
I keep wanting to post this idea... Congress has oversight, they can do investigations of events, how and why things happened the way that they did --- but they can only make criminal referrals to DoJ.
Of course if DoJ does not respond to Congress, the politicos can DEFUND the DoJ... Right! After Santa fills their stockings by the chimney with care...
I can sing any Christmas song ... I get paid to sing but I am the “third” singer in my band behind the lead singer and the much younger lead guitarist, and the saxophone is my first instrument. My favorite to sing is “Have yourself a Merry little Christmas” and there isn’t any I wish I could sing, but there are a lot of singers who I wish I had their pipes lol.
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