Don't you just love Xmas

Finally got the Xmas lights hung, and the tree decorated.....
It's not easy being me....
But there is a bright side...The Candy Cane Fairy comes by every year

Here's my thought on holidays:

Rather than stressing over the expense and preparation for each and every holiday we celebrate throughout the year, I would rather see this consolidated day of festivities (I call it Alan's 1 Day Holiday) which would go something like this:

Family and friends gather for a visit at a designated location.
They all sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner of roast turkey, roast beef, baked ham, and with all of the trimmings. And while seated dressed in their Halloween costumes,they 'trick or treat' for the prepared food at the table. Later in the day, they all go outside and watch fireworks, grill hamburgers, hotdogs, and eat desserts while singing "Happy Birthday" to all of the relatives, the dead presidents and Martin Luther King. Afterwhich everyone goes back inside to exchange and open any Christmas gifts. When all done, they open a bottle of champagne or drink, play with noise makers, sing Auld Lang Syne, wish everyone a "Happy New Year" and go the hell home to bed.

Vince,
I see you've been reading the Martha Stewart book I sent you.
Your decorations are spot on.

I guess I'm the only one that sets off mortar fireworks at Christmas...

Jeez. No wonder all the houses around me are for sale.


angela

Alan, I would go along with your schedule as long as the Candy Cane Fairy is still involved somewhere in the day...

Angela,

Your not the only one, we set them off over the canal behind our home at midnight Christmas Eve, neighbors just love the fact that we wake the kids at midnight, helping them to be awake to listen for the reindeer on the roof and the jolly fat guy to come.

We host a neighborhood open house a few days after the 25th and someone always brings up the topic of finding out just WHO is setting off fireworks at midnight christmas eve, and yes, we play dumb.

I once set the mortars off thru the chimney. thought I was being clever. Oh yeah, real clever when the living room fills with SPARKS and the damn mortar blows up in the chimney!

I think, secretely, I am a closet pyromaniac.

angela

No need to wake the kids at midnight any longer

FESTIVUS... for the rest of us!

~WB

Alan, if you add "feats of strength" while gathered around a big bonfire I'm in !

You mean like tossing the cabor? Just please, please , PLEASE don't make Vince wear a kilt.

Not on your life....mine be draggin

Being in a festive holiday mood, our city council has just removed all the fire rings from city beaches due, they say, to the unavailability of funds to clean them (two guys - full time - plus equipment). That, coupled with a new alcohol ban on most beaches, has had the immediate impact of dramatically reducing the theft of hardwood pallets from local businesses. Can you say spin city?

Angela:

I was just thinking about that the other day (no, not you being a pyromaniac) when we stopped at one of those places just off of I95 that sell Florida oranges, pecans and FIREWORKS!! Saw some nifty "celebration-in-a-box" thingies where you plunk down about $100 bucks, take home this microwave-sized box, set it your back yard (or nearby canal, if you're Jeff), light it and run like hell.

I brought one for Chris a while back and it went for over five minutes; mortars, rockets, pinwheels, cherry bombs, airiel clusters, you name it.

hmmmmmm......maybe I can get another one one the way North!!

gn

All said and Done In these hard and trying times..

I wish you all. good health. Peace, and a lots of happyness in the coming weeks and New year'

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

p.s. I'm Scott/Irish. But you'ed never get me to wear a kilt!!

Same to you, Barry. And thanks for that last bit :-)