Dear Susan Branch

Dear Susan Branch, not everyone who uses your mini calendars, shares your faith.  Those of us who don't, do not want your January art, in our faces, all month.

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So this is how I deal with this situation.  I cut out pretty item pics, from Victorian Trading Co. cataglogue, and paste them over your Jan. art work.

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I'm quite sure, you never even considered such an occurrence happening, among your calendar buyers.  

But it does point out, how everyone does not share the same faith.  Or in my case, does not share any faith at all.  

Happy New Year!!!

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Snow/Ice... At last...

Winter finally came...  Complete with snow and ice and freezing rain.

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Ice storms scare me...   Fear of losing power...  So far, ok...  But the freezing rain continues...

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Time for changes......

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Time to change my blog look, from Christmas Time, to New Years Time.  Changing the look of my blog, is one of the greatest joys of blogging, for me.  Not everyone chooses to.  Which is fine.  But I do....

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Not really ready for the New Year to come, yet.  I prefer to look on this week, the way someone referred to it.....   As the week, when time rather stands still.  A time of quiet, after all the Holiday preparations.  A time to take it easy, and contemplate...  The Season past...  The New Year coming...  The Season of Winter coming...

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So far, our Winter has been unseasonably mild.  But colder weather is settling in.  Don't look forward to the possibility of ice.   But colder would be more natural, for my part of the world.

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"Deep within the winter forest,

among the snowdrifts wide,

you can find a magic place

where all the fairies hide..."

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Now that, is a delightful way, to view the coming real Winter!

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December 26th...

Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Full Long Night Moon, or Full Yule Moon....   All have passed.  No snow or cold weather here, which is very, very unusual.  But no worries about falling on ice, is quite lovely.

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It isn't the New Year yet...  But I'm feeling like posting something here.  As a beginning...  

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Still don't know where this blog will 'go'.  Other than, it needs to be a place, where I don't 'paint myself into corners.'  This happens to me, easily.  But not again.  (I hope!!!)  ...

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Seems a blog should be a place, where we can put photos and words, of our own choosing.  Trying not to be purposely offensive.  But also, not being hemmed in, by having differing opinions.  ~~~   Yes, that sounds like a *Mission Statement*!  -grin-

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(Some of this, would be nice.....)

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reading.... eating.......

one christmas cozy...   one ya book, by a favorite author...   

enjoyed the cozy, with a big country home in the uk, a varied group of guests for the christmas holidays, snowed in of course, and a murder, also of course.  ,-))))

nearly done with the "the fixer"....  as i said above, i really enjoy books by jennifer lynn barnes.  yes, they are ya.  also yes, they are intelligent ya books. 

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-sigh-  i know i shouldn't even show a pic of a home-made fruitcake.  because everyone goes "aaaahggggggg" at the very word "fruitcake."  but if a spice cake mix has candied fruit and walnuts added to it...   and then, it is pricked all over, and rum is poured on it, often...   it makes a nice little treat in the evening, with a glass of port or harvey's bristol cream.   :-)

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and this cake mix, was gluten free!  so i can eat it too!  which is even nicer.   :-)

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Cure for "no snow"

Temps in the 50's!  Imagine that!  Obviously no snow, in our future.  So I get my snow-fix, by watching Hallmark Ch. Christmas Movies.

 

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And baking a Mincemeat Pie, while the Hallmark Christmas movies are on. 

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no snow this year...

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no white christmas here, this year.   but it isn't as if we have not had plenty of them.  yes, it's odd.  but i don't see cold enough weather in our forecast.

for a while i was hoping for snow for christmas.  but now i think it best to forget it.  be glad that it is still so easy to get around. 

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not into excess....

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looking at pretty type blogs.  all the festive sparkle and decorating and food and, and, and.   yes, it's pretty.   but no, it's not where i am, right now.

nothing wrong with having a happy holiday!!!  nothing!  but guess excess, is what it strikes me like, right now.  and excess, just doesn't feel right, at this present moment.

there, i got to write a little bit, about something i am thinking about.  yes, making this place, was a good idea.
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great background

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and i get to use this great holiday background here!  it's perfect!  not obtrusive.  but bright and cheery.  happy, happy, happy.
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