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Re: Christmas

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 3:15 pm
by Bammer
I’m looking at the corner where the Xmas tree goes and envisioning putting all the decorations away and it honestly feels like I just did that about a week ago. Time flies.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 4:10 pm
by tommy
Bammer wrote:I’m looking at the corner where the Xmas tree goes and envisioning putting all the decorations away and it honestly feels like I just did that about a week ago. Time flies.
Check all of the other corners of your living room - maybe you did do it last week

Re: Christmas

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 4:45 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 5:00 pm
by wease
Ours will be up tomorrow

Re: Christmas

Posted: Sat November 25, 2023 10:28 pm
by wease
Just gotta go get some cable ties for some garland and we’ll be all finished. Christmastime is here.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Sat November 25, 2023 10:32 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Sat November 25, 2023 11:05 pm
by knee tunes
tree_ wrote:odin's pubes!
:haha:

Re: Christmas

Posted: Sat November 25, 2023 11:06 pm
by knee tunes
Ello Sailor wrote:You tell 'em weaImage
:haha: omg the spaghetto !

Re: Christmas

Posted: Tue November 28, 2023 4:01 am
by pepperwhiteMFC
I bought a new tree topper lighted star today. It was 60% off so maybe it was $12?
Then at the checkout they offered me a 1 to 3 year warranty plan on it for upwards of $6.

I mean, I sort of expected I was buying some plastic lighted junk with tinsel on it. If it lasts one year I’m not going to lose my shit.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Tue November 28, 2023 4:03 am
by Ello Sailor
Whew!

Re: Christmas

Posted: Tue November 28, 2023 4:05 am
by pepperwhiteMFC
It was a whew-moment. I wasn’t buying tires, just some cheap plastic lighted Christmas junk.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Tue November 28, 2023 10:08 pm
by epilogue
This new Cher Christmas album is really something

Re: Christmas

Posted: Tue November 28, 2023 10:39 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Started to put up the indoor decorations last night. Hope to get the tree up and decorated tonight after work.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 2:06 am
by pepperwhiteMFC
epilogue wrote:This new Cher Christmas album is really something

DJ Play a Christmas Song is a bit catchy.

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 5:42 pm
by epilogue
pepperwhiteMFC wrote:
epilogue wrote:This new Cher Christmas album is really something

DJ Play a Christmas Song is a bit catchy.
Hell yeah! Drop Top Sleigh Ride is fucking lit, too.

"Tearing up the town on a candy cane high" is the best lyrics of the holiday season! :lol: :bammer:

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 7:17 pm
by epilogue
Spinning my Xmas playlist at work and just feeling all the warm feels :heartbeat:

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 7:36 pm
by bart
epilogue wrote:Spinning my Xmas playlist at work and just feeling all the warm feels :heartbeat:
is tommy doing work for you?

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 7:43 pm
by epilogue
bart wrote:
epilogue wrote:Spinning my Xmas playlist at work and just feeling all the warm feels :heartbeat:
is tommy doing work for you?
I'd happily hire him!

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 7:48 pm
by tommy
epilogue wrote:
bart wrote:
epilogue wrote:Spinning my Xmas playlist at work and just feeling all the warm feels :heartbeat:
is tommy doing work for you?
I'd happily hire him!
What's your bathroom situation?

Re: Christmas

Posted: Thu November 30, 2023 7:56 pm
by epilogue
tommy wrote:
epilogue wrote:
bart wrote:
epilogue wrote:Spinning my Xmas playlist at work and just feeling all the warm feels :heartbeat:
is tommy doing work for you?
I'd happily hire him!
What's your bathroom situation?
The worst