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December 23, 2012

the tree

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Sorry I missed posting anything yesterday. I was caught up in the holiday: doing some Christmas shopping, going to parties, and anticipating a bit of vacation. Today A.J. and I got our tree, and we’ve just finished decorating it.

Most years, we walk the three or four blocks to our local garden shop / Christmas tree place, pick the cutest, littlest tree left on the lot, and carry it home. And we usually do this on Christmas Eve. But we drove by there this morning, and all their trees were gone. So we ended up having to drive to the next nearest tree lot to bring home a BIG tree instead.
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I’ll be taking a break from posting for the next couple of days.

I’m intending to post a few things during the week, but I’ll actually be on vacation … so we’ll see.

If you celebrate Christmas, I hope yours is merry!

 

December 21, 2012

old Christmas cards, day 5

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This old card is probably my favorite from among my small (but growing!) collection of antique and vintage Christmas cards and postcards.

On the front, a bright yellow Deutsche Post mail coach is trundling through a snowstorm, and dropping Christmas packages along the way. The printed text in the lower left says, “Merry Christmas!” in German, and it’s signed “Jens, Else & Heidi.”

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The interesting thing for me, when I turned the postcard over, is that the addressee lived in Mainz, which is where I lived many years ago. There’s also a lovely old stamp, obscured by the postmark. And both the “departure” and “arrival” postmarks are a bit difficult to read … but the card arrived in Mainz on Dec. 25, 1906.

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December 18, 2012

just one more week …

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The big day is just week away, and now that the January issue of the magazine is at the printer (yaaaayyy!!) I feel like I can, um, start to get ready for Christmas!

In honor of the season, and because I don’t have anything else to post here at the moment … here are the Muppets with a couple of classic songs for the season. Enjoy! 🙂

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If the embedded videos won’t work on your computer, follow these links to go straight to YouTube to see the Swedish Chef, Beaker, and Animal performing the Carol of the Bells and to see the chickens performing Joy to the World.

(And as a bonus, even though it’s not Christmasy, have you ever seen Beaker performing Ode to Joy??)

 

December 14, 2012

old Christmas cards, day 4

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Today, we have another undated card. This one was signed “From Jennie” … and, no, that’s not me.

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Stay tuned for my favorite of these old Christmas cards, which I’ll post next Friday.

 

December 13, 2012

old Christmas cards, day 3

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Today’s installment in our quick run through my (small) collection of vintage Christmas cards is this lovely, but undated, “Coaching Scene in the days of Longfellow.” It’s hard to read the coach’s name, but it look like it was perhaps the Commodor and that it traveled between Boston and New York.

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