Category: Holidays – holidaze
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Curmudgeonly Monday On Saturday – Putting The “X” Back In Xmas & My Holiday Theme Song
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22191 – 755: Here’s the haps: Last year on Christmas Day I posted “Merry Xmas!” and was able to reason with the torch-bearing mob by explaining that putting an “X” in Christmas has been going on for a long time and in and of itself is not…
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Some Stuff I Learned And Father’s Day
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I get a lot of good things by serendipity. I was reading that the Dumbest Blogger Ever and he said he was going to start numbering his posts. He said that one of his favorite podcasts does that, too. I know that Bruce over at Weave A Web does this…
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The Anniversary Present
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A few days ago I told you about my wife’s favorite tool, her trusty rusty smoker/grill/fire pit, and how she finds it relaxing to have a fire. Son, Tong, had given it to her a few years ago and she has made it earn its keep around here. In that…
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Treasure Hunting
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One of the things we enjoy doing on our adventures is treasure hunting at thrift stores, second only to dumpster diving and curb surfing. Well, to define dumpster diving a bit, if we see something that is potentially valuable in a dumpster we will pull it out and take a…
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Fraying Society’s Edges
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And now Rocky Raccoon, he fell back in his roomOnly to find Gideon’s bibleGideon checked out, and he left it no doubtTo help with good Rocky’s revival From: Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles …it included Gideon’s Bible, which I’ve seen in every hotel I’ve ever been in. You open the…
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Back To The House
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For our 40th anniversary, we were originally going to go somewhere out of town but not knowing what might be opened or not, we decided to avoid potential disappointment and play the tourists in Colorado Springs. We got a cheap room to avoid the distractions of being at the house…
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Mischievous Shenanigans
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I have a few incidents to chronicle from our little get-away of the last few days. Even though we never left Colorado Springs I don’t think it’s exactly a stay-cation because we didn’t stay at the house. We went and got a cheap room because if we would have stayed…
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40th (Ruby) Anniversary
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It is a nice feature of WordPress, and, to be fair, most of the other blogging software I have tried, that I can schedule posts in advance. That way I can keep my commitment to posting every day but on some days I can do other stuff as well. This…
