[JustAmy]

National Popcorn Day









New Friends Day









Robert E. Lee's Birthday (1807)



Robert E. Lee Quotes ...

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.”

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”

“I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing,
than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.”

“In all my perplexities and distresses,
the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.








Tin Can Day








Archery Day







Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday (1809)



Alone (published 1875)
~ Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw -- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring --
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow -- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone --
And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone --
Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life -- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still --
From the torrent, or the fountain --
From the red cliff of the mountain --
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold --
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by --
From the thunder, and the storm --
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view --

[jaycee]

New Friends Day

[Lady Jag]

Got another foot or more of snow yesterday.

About 18" of snow on the ground. All small dogs take notice!

Cats, too!

[Billie]

Oh, Amy, you always have the neatest holiday illustrations - and you always have so MANY holidays it seems. I picked a good day of the week to post the openings - Tuesdays seem generally 'light' in holidays. LOL

I was hungry for popcorn last night and looked on every shelf in the pantry, behind everything that might be hiding Orville Reddenbacher, but alas! I had no popcorn. I do now, and tonight, I will have popcorn while I watch "The Bachelor".

[EsmeraldaA]

A Valentine

For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies
Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure
Divine- a talisman- an amulet
That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure-
The words- the syllables! Do not forget
The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely comprehend the plot.
Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering
Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus
Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing
Of poets, by poets- as the name is a poet's, too,
Its letters, although naturally lying
Like the knight Pinto- Mendez Ferdinando-
Still form a synonym for Truth- Cease trying!
You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

[luvie]

I think the next 4 years will
require much more popcorn! :D