Tag Archives: Holidays

Off into the Revelry we Go

December 31, 2008 – 6:02 pm

For several years now, my little bride and I, along with three other couples, meet on New Year’s Eve, for dinner and dancing. It’s pretty cool, I guess. Big Band kinda music, balloons, noisemakers, and the whole shittaree. BYOB - reminds me of my years in “dry” Kansas.
I like the [...]

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A Christmas Trifecta I Could Live Without

December 23, 2008 – 9:03 pm

I love the Christmas season; by the church calendar, we’re still in Advent season, a time of preparation  for the Miracle of the Birth of our Lord. Advent has nothing to do with the singing of Silent Night, The First Noel, and  other Christmas carols. Some of the traditional Advent music is almost [...]

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Fowl Smoking, 2008 Edition

November 27, 2008 – 11:33 am

The turkey has been in our aging Brinkmann smoker since 09:41 EST. A cold, but not too windy day will help the smoking process, and make this year’s bird the best ever. Until next year, that is.
Happy Thanksgiving!
-k-

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Short Week Ahead

November 23, 2008 – 5:04 pm

One of my favorite weeks of the year looms on the horizon: Thanksgiving week. I’ve taken off the post T-day Friday for more than 25 years; at that time, I was an itinerant computer systems installer, and the PTDF was spent, ahem, doing paperwork, as official timesheets will show. Truth is, all the paperwork [...]

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