Posted on 12/01/2025 5:54:31 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Nice to see you and sorry you have been sick. I have escaped it but many around town have it whatever it is. Merry Christmas to you!!
We all have our lumps and bumps brother. I don’t know that you have been ornery. And I doubt anyone else here has noticed. Feel better soon! It’s Christmas! Joy to the world and you.
Merry Christmas, all.
I wish somehow the northeast could get some of those nice temps......
Sorry to hear you have the ‘lingering crud’. It’s definitely no fun. My brother getting it surely messed up our plans for last night & today, but mom is 92 & we don’t want her getting sick, plus he just felt too awful.
Merry Christmas & feel better soon!
Nacho Potato Wedges / A great super bowl snack
Undercook by 2 min pkg frozen potato wedges. Top w/ 2 1/2 c shredded nacho cheese 1/2 c ea jalapenos,
red bell peppers, green onions, all chopped. Broil til cheese is bubbly. Serve w/ salsa, dairy sour cream
“Lot’s of respiratory ‘crud’ that hangs around for weeks has been going around.”
Beau and I are both dosing ourselves with ‘Emergen-C’ and extra Zinc before we wade into the crowds of germ-carrying (ages 1-6) Great Nieces and Nephews this coming weekend. ;)
Merry Christmas Diana. ❤️
We had a wonderful Christmas Eve service with lots of special music: harp, flute & piano duet, choir, duet by 7 yo twin girls (Away in a Manger). The church was beautiful with candle light, poinsettias, etc. It’s a small country church and the pews were full, which was nice, especially for those who worked so hard on decorations & the music, & the pastor with her message. No one caught their hair on fire when we sang Silent Night holding candles (happened at my old church). The service was over before we knew it, but that seems to happen with very special occasions. I really enjoyed talking with folks after the service as we left - the people are so very nice and friendly. I am very happy with our move & glad we did it. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
That sounds absolutely beautiful! I really need to find a church home. That’s a goal for 2026. I may have to relent and join one that is not EXACTLY what I want - which is Missouri Synod Lutheran (’Give me that Old-Time Religion’) but I need to get on the stick about this.
Thanks for the reminder. Merry Christmas! ;)
Steers are MAGICAL animals that give us steaks and hamburgers and pot roasts...they can do anything! ;)
Merry Christmas, Gundog. Keep on hunting! :)
We are Missouri Synod but all the Lutheran churches around here are ELCA. Our Pastor sticks to the Bible & the services are traditional ... there is some reference to ecology, environment, social justice, & equity mentioned in the prayers (prepared by ELCA for the bulletin). If I disagree, I just stay quiet instead of affirming that particular part of the prayer. The pastor herself is wonderful - very caring & a good shepherd to her congregational ‘flock’. Coming from a church where the pastor gave great sermons but the sick, elderly, grieving & dying receive no pastoral care, I will take our ELCA pastor any day. The pastor visited my cousin regularly when she was in the hospital for 2 months & when my cousin finally came home, the pastor visited with homemade food & flowers. After church services, you are as likely to get a hug as a handshake ... she’s just a wonderful person & her husband is a great guy, too. I actually enjoy going to church now & that hasn’t been the case for decades.
Merry Christmas!
Here’s what I want : an early spring with NO HAIL (we had to get new shingles and siding for damage this year).
My little seed geranium seedlings are doing well, and quite a few amaryllis have sent up flower stalks, one of the cattleya orchids I got at the February orchid show in Madison this year has bloomed. Lots of my moth orchids have sent up flower stems but are not ready to bloom yet.
I didn’t buy a poinsettia this year (I have too many plants) but I toured the poinsettia crop at K&W Greenery in Janesville just to see all the different varieties. It has been many years since we grew poinsettias. They were a pain, but it sure was beautiful and got you in the Christmas spirit to deliver them all to garden centers.
Merry Christmas to all the Gardeners!
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Merry Christmas !
Thanks!
I’m seemingly a bit better today, but skipping a Christmas party this afternoon so I don’t bring along an unwanted gift. Wifey and daughter-san are going tho’, so maybe they’ll bring back some food — there’s almost always lots left over at the get-togethers. :-)
I’ve been blessed with a “home” church (ie., my denomination, Missouri Synod) with pastors who are pretty much traditional Missouri Synod, but super active with pastoral care, too.
My wife is Catholic so we end up going to her church more - I’ve adapted by similarly to you “skipping” the occasional thing I cringe at a little, although in the Creed when we get to “We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.” I substitute “Christian church”. At Communion I just go up for a blessing with the arms crossed bit - something I didn’t do for a long time because it reminded me too much of Worf’s “discommendation” scene in Star Trek! But, I finally decided that didn’t apply...
The priests are also very good on the pastoral care end of things too, so I respect that a lot. :-)
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