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Monday, December 8, 2008

Keeping Chrstmas 'Christmas' may not be about keeping the faith.

I've thought for a while that the folks who bridle at the secularizing of the holiday greeting were maybe mostly the pathological Christians who can't tolerate anyone else celebrating their own season as overtly as Christians do Christmas. But I'm thinking there is a different spirit operating here... There are a lot of people who are not especially full of Christian fervor who call it Christmas and celebrate it wholeheartedly with all the traditional trimmings, and who are entirely content to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Rocking Rector tells of a recent hunt, red jackets, dogs and all...

But the foxes are off the hook, legally protected from these human shennanigans: the dogs follow a scent trail of aniseed oil, she says, laid out by some foxy-clever individual who probably knows how to make it interesting. Perhaps at the end, the doughty dogs are rewarded with licorice...? I'm glad to hear that the foxes are no longer the target--though, acknowledging that there was a time when foxes ate into a crofter's livelihood, and control of their population was a necessity. The thing is,... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Remember that para-Mormon bigamist colony...?

I just learned something that helps me clarify in my own mind how I feel about this group. I try to keep in mind always, when inclined to judge anyone, that I don't know what it is to be them, don't know their whole story, nor what lies and inaccuracies have been reported about them; and that in such a state of ignorance, I should not form any conclusions. But I am coming closer, in this case. It seems since the recent legal difficulties, a number of the residents of the compound have been... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

What are gas prices doing in your neighborhood?

Lowest around here is $1.68 (rounding up that final tricksy.9) Charlie saw $1.65 before leaving Colorado last week. How low will it go, before bouncing this time? These prices are about a third what they were last summer out here. It may not be another check in the mail, but it isn't bad as economic relief. I am considering driving out to visit the lad and bring him home for winter break. After all, I have not yet gotten pictures of the west in snow! How is the economy affecting your daily life,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

If you had a soundtrack behind your life...

What would you include in it? Mine would have some Beethoven in it, and Mozart, and some Tchaikovski, no doubt, and some Simon and Garfunkle, Peter Paul and Mary, and a certain instance of my life recalled in Sunday Will Never Be The Same! Cat Stevens, too-- Wild World closed the relationship that Sunday began... My early life would have some Ed Ames and a lot of Irish music, and I blush to confess, both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, neither of whom can really qualify as music, but there... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

"I saw something awful in the woodshed...!"

Actually, it wasn't the woodshed, it was on TV but it was awful. Not awesome, just awful. Real Housewives of... in this case, Atlanta. These women are some of the awfullest people I have ever seen! And since I have watched some 'reality shows' I do know about how awful people can come across. But these are truly embarrassingly, even humiliatingly horrid! They are not real in the sense of everyday, or down-to-earth women who actually look after households. These are very rich women who hire... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

After reading your most recent post, I knew what to give you.

LONG ISLAND SUMMERS I’d go back for just a moment, perhaps as long as one day and a night, enough, I think, to relish what I loved about Long Island summers: Scents of ragweed, seared grasses, almost-too-sweet roses in the heavy summer air… Glittering waters, hot, hot sand and tiny shells hiding in the drying seaweed margin of the tide… Early mornings sun like a glowing peach soft-lit hazy cool ’til nearly 10… And thunderstorms some afternoons that bruise the air and break the back of humid... Sign in to see full entry.

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Like a birthday present...

For 8 years, GW Bush has been the face of America. He has been the representative of the American spirit, mentality, and value-system. More or less half of America said this should be so, that he was the face they wanted to present to the world. That he represents what we are. Now it will be Barack Obama that is America's face: his spirit, mentality and values that will define America to the world, and to the nation itself. More than half the nation wants America to be seen this new way, wants... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

I saw a turduckhen!

It was there in the grocery store freezer, a lump in plastic that claimed to be a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a partially boneless turkey... with stuffing. For years, choosing a nice all-natural turkey, I have pondered on what would an unnatural turkey be, and where could you get one? I thought of the Hanford Hairless, and the Three-Mile Island Tri-leg... But now I think I have actually found it! And all for only $60! I wonder if I can send someone out into the... Sign in to see full entry.

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