A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day - Weekend....12-21,22-02

Billie and Mama_Bear

[Aeronaut]

I was about ready to put out an APB on you. You are usually the first poster on the thread. :-)

I went to do the marketing with my bride. Did I mention we are having Christmas at our house this year? I was informed as we drove out of the store's parking lot that we weren't done yet. The tab was $223.xx. All told, I'd rather be flying air cover than shopping on the saturday before Christmas.

[Mama_Bear]

I'm cleaning the chimney, gonna set out milk and cookies for him...hoping that a bribe may get me that Red Ryder BB Rifle...)

You're so cute! I love the way you get into the spirit of things around here. I hope Santa is extra-specially good to you this year. :-)

[LadyX]

When you were filing past the casket in D.C., Mama_Bear, I was in Fairbanks - and four months later went through the Good Friday Earthquake.

Then living in town in a two-story house with basement, I had to sit down on the kitchen floor and put my baby in my lap, the whole house rocking like a ship on a very high sea!

Decision Time - flee before the house caved in on us - or go outside where it was in late March 20 below zero?!!
Ah, those 'choices' - I just knew there was a chasm out there with My Name on it, waiting to swallow me!

When the snow finally melted off the ground in late May, there was a two-inch crack all the way across the yard, parallel to the house.

Yep - sometimes we are absolutely right going with feminine intuition - LOL.

[Libertina]

What a beautiful Saturday morning! That looks like a fine breakfast there Lodwick, but Mudboy will be happy to know I had GRITS this morning! :) My tiny Chickadees are also having breakfast at my suet feeder - seems they enjoy "pork (beef?)products" as well as we do! LOL Days are counting down until Christmas. Tonight I am going to see the Living Christmas Tree with my brother and his wife. I've never seen it before so I'm excited. My Christmas shopping is mostly finished, and I plan to bake cookies tommorrow. Fun! You're all invited over for cookies and milk later. :)
Good Morning to all!

[Mama_Bear]

Lori, may I put in a plug here for Aquamarine's Special Christmas music thread on Monday? She tells me she is saving her "best" music for then.

ABSOLUTELY!!

Thank you, aquamarine, for gracing our thread with beautiful music (and graphics) all season, and especially for your special music thread gift to us on Monday. I can't wait!

[LadyX]

Monday will be such a treat with the efforts you have put into a special Day of Music.

We don't often enough say on threads how much we enjoy them, but appreciate and never take your hard work for granted.

{{{{{ Hugs for Hostesses and Helpers !! }}}}}

[Libertina]

What absolutely stunning photographs. God really knew what He was doing, didn't He? :)

[Libertina]

there was a two-inch crack all the way across the yard
Of course your female intuition was on target, LadyX! It was warning that your delicate, female shaped person might be in harms way! :)

[Mama_Bear]

You're all invited over for cookies and milk later. :)

How sweet of you! Are you sure????? LOL

[LadyX]

Good Morning (Afternoon here), Libertina!!

Love how we can identify you in any group of persons by your 'colorful' personality..:)))

[jwfiv]

Thanks, Mama_Bear...I think that Santa is one of the original compassionate conservatives, and is, as Dubya described himself, with tears in his eyes a few days after 9/11, "...a loving guy."

He knows better than me what I really need, so my bribe might not bring that BB gun, but whatever he leaves, I'll surely be grateful for.

Hope you're having a good day, taking care of what need doin', but also finding time to rest and enjoy the view.

[Aquamarine]

I was all through with my grocery shopping yesterday and now Mr. Aquamarine comes home and tells me that I'm supposed to cook a brocolli casserole for the Fire Station. They are having their Christmas on Monday...so I have to go back to the grocery store (on the Sat. before Christmas) and restock. Not to mention that I will be cooking Sun. night. Crunch time!

[jwfiv]

God really knew what He was doing, didn't He?

Yes, I agree, and have often had the same thought, marveling at the ordinary beauty around us.

All the Universe is His Sistine Chapel.

[Mo1]

[Mama_Bear]

Crunch time!

Yes, indeed! I have a couple more pings to answer and then I HAVE to take off out of here.

Hang in there, Aqua, everything will get done that needs to get done......that's what I keep telling myself. ;-)

[Mama_Bear]

All told, I'd rather be flying air cover than shopping on the saturday before Christmas.

LOL!! I don't blame you. It's crazy out there!

[Mama_Bear]

Hi, Mo! Wonderful to see you this Saturday before Christmas. Happy Winter to you too!

[JustAmy]

Good Morning.
I missed the FReep last night also, but I didn't have a good reason. Hope to see you there next Friday.
Today will be slow for me on the threads. I still need to get to a couple of stores to finish up my Christmas. I guess that I'm trying to help the economy. LOL

[Mama_Bear]

I absolutely have to get off this thread and start working my way through a long "To Do" list.

Talk to you all later. Stay safe, have fun!

[Mama_Bear]

Hi Amy, you caught me just as I was leaving. You still have shopping to do?? Well, you take care out there.

Yes, we are going to try to make it up there next Friday.

Merry Christmas! TTYL. :-)