December 6th Candy Canes
I can (and do) watch hour after hour of How it’s Made; here’s their segment on candy canes… BONUS FLOTSAM: Candy Cane Facts — memorize a few for those lulls Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: Christmas
Festive Flotsam Series!
I’ve missed a few days, but I am going to try to dig out something festive every day for the rest of the month — whether it is an ebook, Continue Reading →
Festive Preparation
I took a break from the computer today — I’ve been juggling a bunch of projects of late, but one large one in particular has kept me working well into Continue Reading →
Uncluttered Gifts
What do you give the person who needs nothing? Whether gift-buying for a one-percenter or someone who has simplified to the point that they need no new gadgets or media Continue Reading →
Kiddo’s Christmas Giving
I really want to give massive kudos to my daughter. A few years ago, she started to feel really overwhelmed at Christmas — as an only child, she was getting Continue Reading →
Christmas evening.
Christmas went well this year. We didn’t leave the house but hosted two gatherings: my Mom and Aunt in the morning and a houseful of Mike’s side of the family Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas
Enjoy the LOG, until YouTube deletes it…. and then, may I suggest bopping over to the Internet Archive for a viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? Yeah, you know Continue Reading →
The Week Before Christmas
Here’s a little ditty to describe our week, with apologies to Clement C. Moore (regular readers will recall another version of The Night Before Christmas that I posted in 2008) and to Continue Reading →
Twelve Days
It’s a sign of just how far Christmas has strayed from being a religious celebration that most people have no clue that the Twelve Days of Christmas actually start on Continue Reading →
Deck the house with lights a-plenty
Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la. We used a total of 5 strings of 70 white LED lights plus one string of 70 LED icicle lights for the front of the house — two Continue Reading →