Speaking of holidays — what’s your holiday weather like?
One of the interesting things about writing a blog is that you find the most fun people who live in the most fun places turn up to read what you’re writing.
I know for a fact that we have visitors here from most states in the U.S., from many European nations and Asian nations, an occasional visitor from Central or South America, and really just about every nation from A to Z (what would that be — maybe Aruba to Zambia? whatever).
So what’s the weather like for the Christmas/New Year’s holiday season where you live? Snowy? Sunny?
Let’s do a little “roll call” — sort of sound off and let us know where you live and what the weather’s like there between now and New Year’s? I have absolutely no prizes or rewards to offer, and this isn’t any sort of contest. Just drop a comment and tell us about where you live and how your weather is.
Simply for the fun of it!
Yikes! Plumbing repairs never brighten holiday season
I was just recalling last winter, and thinking that things around my house are a bit better this year than last.
My wife and I are very thankful as Christmas approaches for our old home — emphasis here is on OLD; built around 1907-11, I think. From time to time, we’ve had to make repairs or pay to have ‘em done. (I’m a most UN-handy handyman.) And not so many holiday seasons ago, we had to have work done on an upstairs bathroom. We needed to replace a sink.
I recall a friend helping me work on the old sink up there. Believe me, that sink was created and installed “on the cheap” when we had the house worked on just before moving it. It was no American Standard sink or something comparable. As I recall, we bought it from Acme Plumbing, speaking with a representative I believe was named Wylie E. Coyote.
(I apologize for such a terrible pun. If you aren’t paying attention, that was a lame reference to those marvelous Warner Bros. “Road Runner” cartoons of my childhood.)
My buddy and I referred to ourselves as the “Laurel and Hardy” of home repairs. I know little or nothing about what I’m doing, especially with plumbing, and he knows just enough to get me through it.
But it made for some fun holiday memories. A simple sink installation that wouldn’t take plumbers more than 20-30 minutes took us something like 3-4 hours. (I had no idea how those things are mounted to the wall. Who knew??) Still, I’m perfectly happy just to share those memories with my buddy by phone now and not need to call him in for any plumbing repair work this holiday season!
Holiday decorations or serious security measures?
What’s going on at your house this time of the year — holiday decorations or serious home security measures?
Coming from someone who grew up in a small town where we literally didn’t lock our doors — me — that’s a question which is hard to ask. But given the news these days of everything from burglary to armed home invasions, maybe wireless security systems are more logical home decor for the holidays instead of bright strings of lights.
No, I refuse to get that cynical. And I hope you’ll not be that cynical either.
Sure, bad things happen. They happen at shopping malls, convenience stores, and, yes, even in our neighborhoods and our homes. But we simply must “press on” and go about the holidays with joy and fervor. If you want, think of it in terms of “good against evil,” or “light against darkness”: Let your life reflect the joy of Christmas and good will toward all.
Maybe it’s even appropriate to say, “What goes around comes around,” or whatever that saying is. In biblical terms that has to do with “sowing and reaping.” Do good and ultimately good will come back to you.
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