With, it seems, everywhere on earth being involved somehow in the game of human violence, and with the weather itself being so hard on the country, and with the economy in such a fit that most people are either badly hit by financial concerns or trying to avoid them, you would think Christmas would have been a disaster. But, around here, we got so much good news from people and so much chance to be with friends and family, this Christmas could not have gone better.
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TRASE and LIAM:
Two more:
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Some News TRASE - coming home this morning from the hospital with new kid!
SPARTY - says all new babies look like Winston Churchill.
SCOT - says the new kid "... spends a great deal of time sleeping peacefully so far, but he also has shown a good appetite. He has bright eyes and a good grip. Everyone agrees he's far more handsome than Dad, for which Dad is thankful. Dad is on Cloud 9."
He can say this stuff because he's the Dad. This is what happens to new fathers. They assume a self-deprecatory role, find themselves on strange terrain half the time, and begin speaking in odd declensions.
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IRISH MIKE - was the big winner at the euchre tournament he dominated, and he now promises to spend all his money on beer for friends. (Part of this might be untrue).
IRENE - and her family were in the U.S. - in fact in Michigan - and her kids are now thoroughly familiar with snow. The best part of snow was the sledding. One of them said, "That's the most fun I ever had in my life."
FELIX - has been writing up the adventures of 10-years ago when he had the greatest adventure a hiker can have: The Appalachian Trail from end-to-end. We have shared some of those adventures here on BIRCHES.
BRENDA and STEVE's new house: winter
MARSHA - is home in S. Carolina, for a few minutes or hours, before she has to go off to Tampa with her favorite football team. She is healthy and way-y-y too busy!
WOLVERINES - The University of Michigan Wolverines won the Great Lakes Invitational hockey tournament this week, a nice pick-me-up for fans who have suffered through so many bad news days in football season.
SANDY - had her whole family home for Christmas.
What some people are chuckling about:
JERRY:
158 years ago, California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
So basically, it was just like it is today,
Except the women had real body parts and
The men didn't hold hands!!!
BILL from WNNCO:
The bailout, a different perspective:
Back in 1990, the government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for
tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it
closed.
Now, we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nitwits
who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze?
2 comments:
Heaven knows the business community is doing such a fine job that we should keep the government as far away as possible. They might screw up the economy.
from Alice to Sparty: In this case it could be true since we're from the Spencer group as was Churchill. Still trying to prove it.
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