Wonderful to have you show up here to read messages from my chilly fingers…
Between hustle-bustle and get Christmas things in mind… and my memory seeming to take a vacation – I spent most of yesterday getting lights to burn on our ‘pre-lit’ Christmas Tree. I thought was an extravagance seven years ago when we bought it locally. Grumbling and grousing about it… my wife said she was ‘tired’ of putting lights on a tree every year and she’d seen these trees and liked them… and wanted us to get one. So what’s a husband to do anyway? Pick up his ax – which he broke the handle out of the head last summer…? Buy a new ax to do something his wife doesn’t want him to do anyway…
No… you stand firm… and do exactly what she wants! THAT’S THE WAY to keep peace in the family.
But I have to admit… although I enjoyed feeling the lumberjack in me – and going to look out after a Charlie Brown scrub pine was NOT the most odious job in the world… still… it was nice to unpack the tree… once I got the hang of it… and it did look nice – even though there was a $300+ pain in my wallet. (Then when I was out looking for bulbs locally the other evening I saw a 10ft. + tree in a store not two miles from home for $800…. ) The pain in my wallet toned down a little.
However... we were faced with the fact some of the strings of ‘pre-lit’ lights were not lighting….When I went to the local hardware supermarket without an inkling of what the specs of bulbs for our seven year old pre-lit were … 6volts… 25 watts what???
Turns out the super-duper hardware store about three miles away had sold out of the 2.5volt miniature bulbs the first week in December and were not able to order any more. Arrgggh… Now what? … Over to another “toy” store that had lots of trees (see above paragraph) for lots of money and 50% off all Christmas decorations… but no bulbs. It happened a lady was at the checkout putting her 50 % saving merchandise in bags… and had a box of lights she had purchased at *another* store… and the cashier agreed to ring it up on my bill… I skipped the $40 tester item supposed to make things easier off the Internet ad… because the ‘toy’ store had the *same* item for half the $$$.... Santa… I’m ashamed of you…
Long story has gone on too long… we’ve spent part of three days getting the pre-lit tree in shape to be a part of our ‘easy’ decorations… Frankly the ‘parts’ haven’t cost a lot… just the effort and the time… BUT again… it’s CHRISTMAS… and I’m going to get in the swing of the season even if it makes me ill… which I’m sure it won’t.
The heat on the HILL – I mean Capitol Hill in D.C. – is getting spectacular… it just bears watching because *nobody* can figure out how it’s going to wind down. Just think we now owe several TRILLION $$$ more than we did a couple of years ago… nothing like progress!
Look… let’s forget the Christmas tree problems… Have a blessed season Celebrating the Lord’s birth. He came to redeem us… and He certainly didn’t *have to* -- That’s what I’m thankful for.
God bless you and your family and make it a really Blessed Christmas in the Lord.
Cordially, IN HIM
Barbara and Jack Buttram
Delayed audio link:
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“JUST A MINUTE”
GEORGE “H.W.” JUST SAID – ‘READ MY LIPS…’
Just a Minute: Looks like the Democrats in the Senate have formed up their circular “firing squad” with The President squarely in the middle – but after they get all the ‘hot lead’ out of their system it’s likely to be disbanded.
After the ‘smoke had cleared’ the White House press room Tuesday afternoon – and the President had called his own troops summer soldiers and sunshine patriots in effect – I think we’ll see a significant drop in Democrat tempers. Vermont Independent Social Democrat, Senator Bernie Saunders, came close to frothing at the mouth on NBC last evening as he urged a fight to defeat the legislation his President is proposing.
It’s been noted elsewhere,
Virtually all the predictors and pundits I’ve heard from are scratching their heads over this “quackery” proposal in the ‘lame duck’ session.
<> I’m Jack Buttram.
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