I didn’t take any vacation this summer so I have a lot of vacation days to burn up before the end of March (end of our fiscal year) — my company only allows 5 days rollover.
Two short weeks in a row make for a nice break, though.
Oh yeah, not fully done with the shopping, but young asklet already got his. The PC was supposed to be a combined birthday/Christmas present, now he got a cell phone as well.
The older one will get gift cards from H&M and some books.
on line translators are not all they are cracked up to be. It was suppose to read “Merry Christmas and happy New Year to You and Your Loved Ones.” At least I tried. LOL and you know it was heartfelt if gramatically insane.
Thanks, refinish. Its in a little corner park just down the street from our house. The streets get pretty quiet here when it snows very much. Most people head for home to hunker down next to the fireplace/wood stove.
Morning refinish! Its nice to know we are surrounded by friends at times like these. I’m rather neutral about the holidays. I love visiting the family and the granddems, but I’m always glad to get home where its quiet and “relatively” peaceful 😉
We acquired a new kitty yesterday and the old alpha-cat is NOT pleased!
Since we all know FamilyMan hates to travel and we all would love to meet him in person, I say we have a froggy bottom reunion at the FFamily Estate next year. That small part of ‘Bama would never be the same. LOL
Depends on the type of stuffing and mounting and as I am not a bottom….. ROTFLMAO!!!! I love the way the cafe turns to pure raunch when you and I are together.
The weather changed overnight and it got colder — which wouldn’t take much, it was so warm this week. And it’s gray out. A little snow would help the holiday mood.
while he was ice skating — since he can’t be worse than these kids, he’s going to try to confuse them with kindness. So he bought them all passes to the ice rink, wrote them messages, and is mailing them off. His mood is marginally better.
BTW, he’s never on vacation; he is all kids all the time.
my dad was that way too. It was REALLY annoying when you were his REAL kid and he was still thinking about other people’s kids. I have minimal tolerance for my dad’s former students. Who I run into all the time.
Good morning, Andi.
A good, long weekend it is.
I’m taking 2 weeks off so it’s a verrrrry long weekend.
Did you get neat stuff for the asklets?
That sounds great, I’m glad for you.
I can only maje it two long weekends – off Friday and Monday both of them.
I didn’t take any vacation this summer so I have a lot of vacation days to burn up before the end of March (end of our fiscal year) — my company only allows 5 days rollover.
Two short weeks in a row make for a nice break, though.
Oh yeah, not fully done with the shopping, but young asklet already got his. The PC was supposed to be a combined birthday/Christmas present, now he got a cell phone as well.
The older one will get gift cards from H&M and some books.
Sounds like a nice christmas indeed. I’m sure eldest asklet will have a very good time deciding how to spend her gift card.
inquiring minds want to know the book list. LOL
I wish you all the nicest Christmas!
I hope you have a lovely holiday season.
Thanks, AndiF,
It is a statue of Louis XIV, the Sun-King…
Le Joyeux Noël et la nouvelle année heureuse à vous et votre ont aimé ceux.
Ooh la la! You are so sexy when you speak french!
ROTFLMAO!!!! I don’t speak it just know how to type into a translator.
Then you are a good faker. 🙂
translated back to English:
The Merry Christmas and the new happy year to you and your are loved those…
on line translators are not all they are cracked up to be. It was suppose to read “Merry Christmas and happy New Year to You and Your Loved Ones.” At least I tried. LOL and you know it was heartfelt if gramatically insane.
It was a nice try and I appreciated it a lot.
Cheers, refinish69!
Joyeux Noël to you as well, Melanchthon! Beautiful photo.
Good morning Andi, ask, Melanchthon! Happy Holidays to you!
Another blah day. If we are going to have wet weather, it would be nice to have some snow to make things pretty.
It certainly would. Here’s a memory from a recent Christmas past.
That’s beautiful!!!!
Thanks, refinish. Its in a little corner park just down the street from our house. The streets get pretty quiet here when it snows very much. Most people head for home to hunker down next to the fireplace/wood stove.
Beats the heck out of the mud and mush of this year.
Yes, at least when the ground is frozen I don’t worry about sinking into the mud up to my ankles – or worse – coming up minus a shoe.
Good Morning all!!! Happy whatever you celebrate. LOL
well I belong to the Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic, I limit myself to celebrating days off from work (or in your case days making very good money).
LOL You are a genious at google search Miss Andi… dail up or not
Morning refinish! Its nice to know we are surrounded by friends at times like these. I’m rather neutral about the holidays. I love visiting the family and the granddems, but I’m always glad to get home where its quiet and “relatively” peaceful 😉
We acquired a new kitty yesterday and the old alpha-cat is NOT pleased!
LOL That is one of the reason I enjoy my family living in North Carolina and me living in Texas. LOL I don’t visit at holidays on purpose.
good luck with the new kitty
For those who did not see the link last night, here is my holiday podcast. No Poltics just music and memories and holiday wishes.
Holiday Memories and Wishes
Since we all know FamilyMan hates to travel and we all would love to meet him in person, I say we have a froggy bottom reunion at the FFamily Estate next year. That small part of ‘Bama would never be the same. LOL
I get the big bedroom!
I think the majority of us would be spread around the county at motels. LOL
That’s the one were Mr. Wilson our ghost died.
He doesn’t scare me.
He does me! Just think on a cold and stormy night, the wind howling…..
I can imagine that. For all the overflow we could rent out rooms at the best hotel. The Dew Drop In Tavern, Motel and Taxidermy.
as long as my room is not the Taxidermy room. LOL
You don’t want to be stuffed and mounted? Gee, it actually sounds like a dream of yours.
Depends on the type of stuffing and mounting and as I am not a bottom….. ROTFLMAO!!!! I love the way the cafe turns to pure raunch when you and I are together.
Well cousin virgil gets the rooms mixed up sometimes and he does do cosmetic surgery. 🙂
Cousin Virgil scares me – Mr. Wilson, not so much.
I once stayed at a motel in Clarinda, Iowa whose brochure bragged that they had a separate room for cleaning game.
Mmmm. Not amount of Febreze could mask that smell.
which was way I was grateful for that particular “feature”.
I’ll be sending the dogs ahead so they’ll be the ones to discover all the giant mud swamps.
See ya.
Have a great walk with the pack!!!!
See ya Andi.
The kids and I are taking boxes of clothing and food down to the homeless shelter. Hope everyone has a good day!
And safe driving to all!
Have fun!!!
The weather changed overnight and it got colder — which wouldn’t take much, it was so warm this week. And it’s gray out. A little snow would help the holiday mood.
Is anyone around?
but that close to a round.
Is Jim in a better mood today? Has it dawned on him that he’s ON VACATION!
while he was ice skating — since he can’t be worse than these kids, he’s going to try to confuse them with kindness. So he bought them all passes to the ice rink, wrote them messages, and is mailing them off. His mood is marginally better.
BTW, he’s never on vacation; he is all kids all the time.
my dad was that way too. It was REALLY annoying when you were his REAL kid and he was still thinking about other people’s kids. I have minimal tolerance for my dad’s former students. Who I run into all the time.
What are your plans for today?
🙂
We had freezing rain … and now it’s just rain, but definitely gloomy.
and not let us know?
If I travelled all that way I’d be so excited I would have told ya … 🙂
on getting you to Indiana instead (you can practice saying ‘howdy’ instead of ‘gday’).
did the regular rain melt the frozen stuff?
Still lots of ice about though. But nature is giving us the gift of a full day of sun on the 25th … haven’t had one of those in a long time.
Come pretend it’s snowing out at the new Winter Cafe.
Unless you’re dada — and have all the snow you need 🙂