Monday, December 06, 2010

Happy Feast of St. Nicholas!


































Since we'll be at Daughter's for Christmas, we're thinking of not getting an indoor tree this year.
We always hate to cut one down and this year our local tree place is running out of trees!
We may put up some greenery around the livingroom windows instead.
What are your plans? Anything new?

27 comments:

  1. Icy finger waves
    Ski trails on a mountainside
    Howard Dean is First.

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  2. We had some rain this weekend. New inkjet printer should arrive from Canada via UPS tomorrow; a spare to ship Tuesday. Compensated my friend in BC who took care of it via PayPal, and will return the favor with a couple of nut and fruit trays from Vacaville Fruit Company:

    http://www.vacavillefruit.com/

    Prices seem reasonable, and shipping in the U.S. seems to be cheap. They will ship to Canada, price unknown to me at this time. The trays on the ones we got from Costco look nice, too. (They are pretty good sized, and made of correspondingly large withes.)

    We got some of their fruit trays at Costco for holiday gifts, and they look really good. My only complaint is that I wish they had at least some medjool dates instead of all deglet noor. No pleasing some people, wot?

    TTFN--gotta get my beauty sleep. Typical of weekend at Salt Mine No. 2, I didn't get my normal quota.

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  3. So I just ate dinner!

    I forgot to eat as I don't have much of an appetite yet and spent the last 6 hours focused on completing my presentation for the Methodist clergy. I needed to finish it tonight because it's for Tuesday and it sure looks like someone other than me is going to have to present it, as I am still hoarse and still have unpredictable fits of coughing. I feel better every day, but it's still taking a long time.

    Last evening I fixed up our livingroom wall of books! There are now no longer any lying horizontal, a lot of the shelves got dusted, and we put our favourite Christmas ornaments atop some books and hanging from others. Then I hung up my St. Lucia cut-outs in the kitchen, and set the Nativity up, with the Three Wise Guys on the big windowsill. Next I want to put up some ivy around the window with some bows or some such thing. I have our stockings ready to hang too.

    Today I actually left the house!! I got very little sleep last night, and thought I'd get a loved one to fill in for me...going to a nice Christmas play at UVM. But no one could do it. So I went after all and worked hard to only cough when the cast was all singing or a trumpet was playing or something. But I realised I simply HAD to brave it and go when I learned that the folks we were going with had a sadness. It was the mom's birthday yesterday and the daughter's 13th birthday today and sometime in the night the paternal grandfather died. Mom was keeping it from daughter for the day, so she could have a good birthday. I can't tell you how grateful I feel that Hubby and I decided last month to take them to this play as a birthdays gift. They really needed something festive to mark the day, and this meant mom didn't have to think it up and carry it out, since she was on the phone so much to family members. Dad and the rest of the family are currently in CA, NY and CT. It was so good to be with them on this momentous day, to offer quiet support and bring them smiles. ♥

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  4. Take care, Alan. I hope we both catch up on sleep tonight.
    Now I'm craving fruit. :-)

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  5. Ah! Wonderful it turned out so well. Lovely thing to do. xox

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  6. Cold and gray again. Stevie wanted out, so I let him. He stayed a total of three and a half minutes before begging in again, lol! I don't raise no stupid cats.

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  7. Stevie wants you to make it warm outside again. =^. .^=

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  8. Stevie wants you to make it warm outside again. =^. .^=

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  9. the real St Nicholas:
    http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=38

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  10. Hey Hey!!

    I just might be at the very beginnings of being on the mend (she said, hastily knocking mahogany!).

    The throat feels less swollen for the first time since this began two weeks ago today.
    Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope...!!

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  11. I believe you're right. And I want *someone* to do the same, though I don't see Stevie as being up to the task, lol!

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  12. Hoping with you!!

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  13. Hope from here too.

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  14. Back from SMOFcon. The trip home didn't go 100% smoothly, even granting it was a red-eye flight to begin with, but I've had worse. Got home around 9 am Chicago time. Looked at some stuff on-line and checked the mail, then took a nap most of the afternoon. (I was smart enough not to expect any work to get done today.)

    At the meeting I had maybe a half hour of good face time with the department head I will be working for at the Reno Worldcon. Some good insights into where we stand, where we're going, and where I fit. Also got some insights into how high-level con-runners think that may prove useful at some point. But mostly decided SMOFcon is not really for people at my level. I won't be gonig to Amsterdam next year.

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  15. Ally update at baby ~~

    http://eatapyzch.blogspot.com/

    http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys

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  16. Ally update at baby ~~

    http://eatapyzch.blogspot.com/

    http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys

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  17. Telegraph cables, how they sing along the highway, and travel each bend of the road.
    People who meet in this romantic setting are so hypnotized by the lovely

    Snowflakes in the wind
    Blanketing the countryside
    Moonlight in Vermont

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  18. Lots of healing vibes!

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  19. Elizabeth Edwards is the same age my Mom-in-Law was when she died of pancreatic cancer. :-(
    http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101206/NEWS04/101206026/Elizabeth-Edwards-gravely-ill-with-cancer-

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  20. It's a good update, too! :-) Worth visiting three times!!!

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  21. Welcome back, Bill.

    I am always impressed with your ability to size things up quickly, calmly and well.

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  22. Thanks, all y'all!!

    The swelling is definitely not what it was. This is good. :-)

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  23. Thanks, listener. I never particularly think of myself that way. Maayabe because, to whatever extent it is true, it just comes naturally.

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  24. Lol! Well, *I* only posted it once. *IT* just kept doing it's own thang, I didn't scroll up.

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  25. Welcome home, Bill! You've been missed.

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  26. Re: weather. One of the things that made the trip home less than ideal was that the coat that was almost adequate for Chicago when I left and was more than I really needed in California was nowhere near enough for the 12-deg weather I returned to, with the first real snow of the season on the ground. I see it's 15 now and the high today was supposedly 22.

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