A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-15,16,17-06....T.G.I.F. at the Finest

15 December 2006 | billie

[JustAmy]

Good morning, Basheva.

Welcome to FReeRepublic and a Finest Welcome to the Finest.
Looking forward to some of your stories.

Have a Finest Friday and a Wondeful Weekend.

[JustAmy]

Beautiful reply, Meg.

[JustAmy]

Thank you .... I decided to check old folders this morning.

[Kitty Mittens]

Wearing Red in Support of our Troops! Thank you for the Thread, Dear Dolly, and Welcome to USMCWife6869 and Basheva! Finest Hugs to All.

Miss Kitty

[ConorMacNessa]

HAPPY FRIDAY TO THE FINEST!

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Wearing Red to support our troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan!

[Mama_Bear]

Welcome to our humble cyber-home at FreeRepublic! Happy to have you join us, Basheva.

And, Happy Hanukkah!

[Billie]

Don't forget to wear RED today!

[Billie]

Heyyyy! Nice Christmasy touch to the opening post!

[Billie]

Ohhhhhhh! I like this! The grey backgrounds are so classy with the red camellias!

[Billie]

Love your new hair style, Luvbo! :)

[La Enchiladita]

Shabbat Shalom and Happy Hannukah. Tonight is the happy night, right, that starts Hannukah...?

You will learn many things here, always.

[La Enchiladita]

Thank you everyone for the festive pings... TGIF.

For our Finest Troops and Supporters:

A Christmas Rose

Each December near my home
There blooms a CHristmas rose
Unharmed by snow or bitter cold
This lovely blossom grows

I know not why it does not die
When wintery breezes press
I only know a brighter world
Comes from its loveliness

A legend says that Christmas rose
Came that first Christmas day
So that a child might have a gift
Before her Lord to lay

May God's rich gifts be your today
His blessings fall anew
And whether skies be dark or fair
May roses bloom for you ...

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks for opening the doors today, Dolly. Have a great weekend.

I am wearing red for our troops. :-)

[Mama_Bear]

A Christmas Rose

Lovely sentiment. Thanks, dita. May roses always bloom for you as well. :-)

[Billie]

From USMCWife6869: "Just a quick question. this is my first foray into a FReeper's Finest thread. What sort of things do we post in here?"

From Basheva: "I very recently joined and am still learning how to navigate this site....forgive me....I'm a retired ballet dancer/teacher and computer stuff is another world far removed from barre and studio and stage.

I am also a writer - with a specialty in dance: critique/features/interviews. But I write lots of other things, too.

This site was sent to me by someone I sit next to at Torah Study every Saturday morning. There are a few of us conservatives at our Temple. I have two conservative bumper stickers on my car and it sits in silent acclamation of my beliefs in the Temple parking lot.

This evening at the Hanukah Sabbath Service, I shall indeed be wearing red. Red - in gratitude to our brave military and our wonderful country, without whom I personally would not be alive."

It's so nice to have both of you join us, both at Free Republic and here at The Finest! Thanks for checking us out, and hope you'll want to come by every day. We have sort of a regular routine here each week:

• Mondays we pay particular attention to our military (called Military Monday),
• Tusdays our threads are whatever the hostess chooses to feature,
• Wednesdays our regular threads are geared towards cute, sweet, warm, fuzzy stuff (Warm Fuzzy Wednesday),
• Thursdays are usually a satire by JohnHuang2 (John's Two Cents),
• weekend threads (T.G.I.F. at the Finest) are a hodge podge of whatever and whenever anyone wants to post!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Okay, I got my red on... ; )

[Billie]

A Christmas Rose....

Dita, that's such a beautiful poem. Wouldn't a rose blooming in the snow be a wondrous sight - you'd have to believe. Have a wonderful weekend - we'll probably be Christmasing all next week here at the Finest.

[Lady Jag]

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

[Billie]

Fabulous!

[La Enchiladita]

Watching the Farewell to Rumsfeld now ... POTUS is speaking.