It's unlocked. Now, let's retire it for another year.
edgarblythe wrote:It's unlocked. Now, let's retire it for another year.
Whoa, whoa, just a minute, mister!
I haven't wished you and everybody else an extremely excellent upcoming New Year, with all the best of luck and prosperity, etc, etc.... :wink:
Okay, I'm done now.
Okay, Reyn. Happy New Year to one and all.
Do you do the party hat /noise-maker thing at all?
hehe, Vivienne and I usually end up in bed before 12 midnight.
Somebody put a Jack in the Box new year antenna ball on my truck today. Don't know who. . .
edgarblythe wrote:Somebody put a Jack in the Box new year antenna ball on my truck today. Don't know who. . .
Sorry edgar, that was me. I was just trying to re-live my youth.
You gotta admit that it does look pretty sporty though.
I wear it proudly- -rather, my truck does.
Tis the Season: 2006!
It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you "Be of good cheer"
It's the most wonderful time of the year
It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap- happiest season of all
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When love ones are near
It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When love ones are near
It's the most wonderful time
It's the most wonderful time
It's the most wonderful time
It's the most wonderful time of the year
Wow. A fresh three year old thread.
Happy holidays.
Halloween is history. Tomorrow is the Tomball Thanksgiving Parade, which is closed out by Santy Claus. Face it, the season is here and now.
The parade is not exactly two tractors and the hardware man's pick up truck, but it is nowhere near the lavish display of Houston or New York. There are high school floats, clowns, horseback riders, bands galore, fire engines, antique cars. My boss is going to walk behind a float and hand out fliers.
Hope to see you there- -edgar
edgarblythe wrote:...There are high school floats, clowns, horseback riders, bands galore, fire engines, antique cars...
How do you make a high school float?
Two scoops of ice cream, soda, and a huge glass?
Ahhhh, small town parades. We have an annual Halloween parade, the purpose of which appears to be to show off all the new 2007 car models. This, interspersed with really bad high school bands who have some of the worst woodwinds in marching music , makes for an interesting but kinda amateur display. Our flaots are usually contained within large box hay bale wagons, and the people inside, rather than looking like a classy float, look like some freak show in which everybody is kept in these large red cages
. Yep. its time for the beginning of the depressing time of year. Im hoping this year will be as nice as last year for me and my family. (I was almost not depressed last year). I think my going back and forth to project work in ARgentina after Thanksgiving will help my SADs and maybe get me through Xmas without really messing someone up.
Hope that works out for you, farmerman.
Gonna take some tango lessons while you're there?
Farmerman--
Crossing the Equator near the Dark of the Year provides quality mana.
The parade lasts two hours. First, the military contingent, featuring a few dozen marchers ("Left, left, left"), some jeeps, trucks, and a tank riding on a flat bed. We stood for the passing flag, the wife and I. They moved so fast that the next feature was still about four blocks up the street.
We sat atop the toolbox on my truck, in the CVS Pharmacy parking lot. The sun was warm, almost uncomfortably so. In past years, it has been chilly to downright cold, even drizzly. Mrs edgarblythe says, "Is that Dan Patrick?"
Sure enough, our newly elected state representative, waving from the back of a pick up, passed before us. "I'm not going to look at him," I said.
I kept my head turned, until he passed from sight and the mayor, Hap Harrington, along with city council members, rode by. He waved at everyone, and appeared to be waving at me in particular at one point. I gave him a wave back. Later, he came up from a back route to his SUV, which was parked nearby. A fat old man, he limped, aided by a cane. I often wonder that a man that old, in ill health, continues to serve year after year. I think he must be on his fourth consecutive term.
A few minutes later, the Arabia Shrine people began their passage. Theirs is a long procession. First, the flag bearers. Belly dancers (men with enormous stomachs) Then, a float. Next, little cars circling and whizzing, followed by a different set of cars. Motorcycles came next. Bringing up the rear were horseback riders. I witnessed one of the riders falling off his horse. Paramedics came, and he eventually sat up and we soon saw him sitting on a chair. Another person took his horse and finished his ride.
The clowns are always a riot.
Clog dancers. Did I mention the clog dancing? Two trailer loads of them. School bands, drill teams and the like, interspersed throughout. Also local beauty queens, including Miss Tomball, riding in fancy cars. Most of the floats were trailers, with bales of hay and advertising banners. Ronald MacDonald went past in a car shaped like a red shoe. A Spanish float dedicated to Zorro. A car that has two front ends, two drivers, changing about at intervals. A group of antique cars, firetrucks.
The parade is known to be nearing the end, when horseback riders, the ones who make the trail rides during rodeo time, arrive. The grand finale: Santa Clause on a hoaky float, waving as his elves toss candy at the kids.
Exeunt, we drive off to do our weekly grocery buying.
Member on "Fractured Fairy Tales" from the Bullwinkle and Rocky show, how there would be this enormous parade of stuff introducing the segment. AT the end of which was a street man with a large broom cleaning up elephant doo.?
Your parade sounds waay more entertaining than ours. I failed to mention that in our parade, a "proLife" group had a float and they were tossing out little plastic fetuses. I hope the parade committee will give that a bit more thought when they jury the participants for next year
