Happy Festivus for the Rest of Us!

Today, December 23rd, is Festivus!

Get your Festivus pole out of the closet, prepare for the feats of strength,

get ready for the airing of grievances, and most of all,

expect a Festivus miracle!

(Glaedelig Jul is Danish for Merry Christmas,
which actually isn't as creepy as this guy makes it look!)

"Green" Christmas

Some people just seem to have a clever way about doing things.  I envy that!

Take a look:

A cleverly wrapped Christmas gift from a friend of ours. It's sitting under our Christmas tree and it is my understanding that it contains homemade vodka infusions. (That much was divulged because we were supposed to be sure to keep it upright; she wasn't sure about the cork reliability factor!)  The flavors of said infusions remain a mystery. Oh, sweet anticipation!

Funny, I don't remember them going to Cozumel....

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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same.

Giving and receiving -- not giving and taking.

                                          --Joyce Grenfell

Merry Merry Merry....

Some people are so darned creative....a little holiday music for you!

(Will you be able to watch this only once?!)

Good grief, it'z blizzarding outzide! 

Here'z what it lookz like, only minutez ago:

Pardon the picture quality...taken with phone.

Sure, yesterday it was nearly 50 degrees, and today it's in single digits, wind howling, snowing horizontally.

I make fun of how much we Midwesterners are willing to talk about the weather

...geesh, it's something to talk about today!

Luckily, this stack is out of the blizzard and well on its way to California! Hooray!

(Note Christmas Story paper on top!)

Now it's time to have more of those
Black Walnut & Golden Raisin Cookies
I've been obsessing about (and eating) for days!

Cheers!