Polar bear?  What do you think?

This one is very imaginative.  I think I will do this for a laugh … I can see me doing it on a neighbour’s taxi when he is asleep and just leave it for him to find in the morning.  Ha ha.  I bet you my windows are the first ones he looks at to see if I’m watching out to see his reaction.  Me mischievous… never!  Ha ha!

A fantastic use of the summer garden furniture and one my cousin had a lot of laughs out of last year when I showed it to her.

The trick with this one is to get a child in gloves to crouch behind it and hold the tour brochure while you are taking the photo.  Taking a photo with a lot of giggling going on will be the trickiest bit though … for sure!

Of course some snow people make their own sun… or at least think positive!  Ha ha!

Start of a snow cat.

A good snow cat. 

I’ll be thinking about a new snowman stunt or two and I don’t mean the one with the snowballs (naughty imaginations needed here) as I don’t want to offend people or corrupt children.

Of course there are naughty tricks that people can get up to with snow and the following photo is of a trick which someone I know did on a neighbour who is nicknamed “Stirsy” where the young man’s front door was snowed over and a message left for him on a garden wall while he was out visiting a neighbour.  It is a good thing he has a sense of humour and laughed it all off.  Some wouldn’t. 

P.S.  I’m not putting any bad ideas into your head unless you do happen to have snow fall on 1st of April and think it would be a good April Fool’s Day joke on someone who could see the lighter side of it all. 

An alternative to building snowmen is also to go out mountain biking in the snow. Not for me… but maybe for you?

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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…….(and that beautiful guitar strumming in)

Jack Frost Nipping At Your Nose (strings)

You get the message.  As a child this song evoked some of the most beautiful images in the world. It was a cozy song, happy song, a song filled with so much promise of a good Christmas and Santa Claus himself.  And love as well.  I remember when I was about four years old and my younger sister being two.  This was one of the best Christmases in the world.  My mother had a unique idea that people put up their Christmas trees far too soon, therefore it was traditional for  us to go out on Christmas Eve and get this towering tree.  My older siblings would deck it with Angel hair, icicles, bows, all kinds of ornaments and bells with that top angel on the tree.  We would be so enchanted and happy with this.  And we had a big family and at that time only my eldest sister had married and moved away.  Everyone was still at home; beautiful aromas were permeating the home from the kitchen.

My sister and I were told over and over to get to sleep so that we could wake up and see our gifts that Santa would leave us.  We had a real fire burning fireplace and were allowed to sit a treat of cake or cookies and sometimes ham and potato salad there so that he could eat since his job was so hard.  We wrestled with sleep that night because  we were keyed up so badly…..and then we heard something.  We heard bells and figured that it was Santa and his reindeer sailing over our home to land.  Would you believe that we were ready to take a quick nap then?  I guess in our mind, the wait was over. We woke to half the living room filled with so many presents we couldn’t believe it.  We three younger girls had dolls, my brother a sled, all kinds of tea sets and table and chair, bicycle and books and clothes.  I could cry with the thought of all this beauty and more than anything, the love that was heaped on us.  You best believe we tried to be nice to get a repeat of this, although we often failed.

But that song, called the Christmas Song personifies our Christmases here.  They are oftentimes white just as kids learn to love and they are cold, usually.  It’s funny that Mel Torme, a Chicago Born gentleman wrote the song and a Chicago Born singer Nat King Cole made it so romantically famous.  I think it’s ironic that we have a mean temperature colder than that of Southern Alaska right here.   Our winters can be brutal and I have witnessed countless bad ones.  Still it’s our home and we are pretty well adapted to it.  Seldom do I don a hat or gloves until the temperature goes to the teens.  People wonder why I don’t get a cold and again I say adaptability.  It’s the same as me wondering what people do in the Southern States for the heat.  Again, adaptability. 

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Yes, the Christmas song sort of seems like it belongs to us.  We love it and we loved both the Writer/Singer and the Singer who made it so famous.  They were beautiful, talented men.  Mr. Torme was raised on the North side of town and Mr. Cole, in our Community, the South Side.  I just can’t praise that song without praising them as well.  And for those who celebrate the Christmas season, may I say “Merry Christmas Baby” too, made famous by the late Charles Brown!

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I know children enjoy playing in the frozen soft serve ice.  However, they are just children and don’t know better.  I understand that they don’t quite know that 80 degrees and up is so much better.  

Even snowmen don’t turn me on.  Singing ‘Let it Snow’ just isn’t in my repertoire of Christmas songs.   But, I might break out with a little ‘Frosty the Snowman.’  Isn’t he adorable?

Well, if it Snows a lot where you are or not, just remember to have yourself a great and wonderful Merry Christmas. 

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The spirit seems to be there and alive.  I went light looking tonight.  You go out after dark and view all the pretty lighted houses on the block.  And now it is even great to go light looking during the day.  So many houses decorate for the day time also.  It is fabulous!  I even put up our tree tonight.   And I will make some eggnog tomorrow.  And go to the local church soon to listen to Christmas carols.  And if I am in luck, I will be able to hear the bell choir.  I was in a bell choir as a youth.  It was a great experience to be a part of something that you cannot do alone.

And it required the utmost precision.  I only wish that everyone could have the Christmas spirit all year round.  They truly miss out on the whole meaning if they do not.  Being kind to your fellow human beings when it is the most difficult is something you should strive to do all year round.  Being mean back to someone is just not good.  And not what is intended in the big picture.  This year, my wish is that everyone finds a little bit more inner peace wherever they are.  And then, just maybe, we will someday have peace on earth all over the world.

Tony retailer launched a “12 Days of Gaga” promotion, with different limited edition items ranging from jewelry to candy to toys gagasworkshop.com available each day before opening this week of his boutique stores. 

An acrylic ring set Gaga is priced $ 18, while $ 285 will get you a pair of studded leather motorcycle gloves without fingers. For those in a seasonal mood, there is a 21-inch stiletto boot style holiday stocking for $ 65. 

Buyers who prefer to sail in an actual building can go to Barneys Madison ‘Avenue men’s shop has dedicated his entire fifth floor, more than 5. 000 square meters, to “Lady Gaga Workshop” offering gifts, clothing and art, and until 2 January. 

Buyers have to navigate a huge Lady Gaga erected around the inlet to enter the store 

The diva showed up dressed in Chanel and brandishing customized giant scissors to cut the ribbon opening night. 

Barneys holiday windows have been a great attraction for decades, and the store upped the ante this year with designs inspired Gaga as “Gaga boudoir”, an elegant study in white, ivory and soft gold. The whole thing is made of hair. 

Twenty-five percent of sales generated by the workshop “Lady Gaga” will go to “Born This Way”, the singer of the foundation, which focuses on youth issues such as self-esteem and combat bullying. 

The pop powerhouse will have its own ABC special on the night of Thanksgiving, “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving,” which he also directed.

Lady Gaga also made a surprise for his fans on Twitter on Wednesday, announcing the release of “A Very Gaga Holiday” EP, with live versions of “White Christmas”, “Orange Sky,” “You And I” and “The Edge of Glory” for $ 3.99 at iTunes and Amazon.

Halloween ghosts that are displayed are usually white.  But the real ghosts on television are see through.  Angelic visions and other heavenly bodies are usually adorned in white.  White is a symbol of purity.  Wedding gowns and dresses are most often white to symbolize purity and virginity in days of old.  What about the white sales at the local department stores meant to feature bed sheets and the like of all colors.

Clouds are puffy white when rain or other inclement weather is nowhere to be found.  Cotton balls and Q-tip ends are white and will always be associated with such.  Cotton is snow white after processing.  Lamb and sheep are a share of white.  Poodles and other small cute dogs are sometimes white.  Cats are often white and named snowball or the like.  Snow is pure and cold.  Chickens are mostly while a lot of the time.  And most eggs are white.  And eggs contain egg white.  Egg whites make great white meringue.  Cool Whip and the like are great on deserts.  Vanilla ice cream is heavenly and a great addition to that desert with meringue or marshmallows on top.  Vanilla flavoring is a main ingredient in many recipes, but appears to be a brown liquid in the bottle.  Go figure.  White foods must also include white rice and milk.

White doves are the quintessential white animal representing peace and joy.  Many animals have totally or partially white varieties.  Rabbit, cattle and horses always look great when white.  Snow White is even a famous Disney character movie star.  In the animal world, white can mean sure death.  Albino deer, tigers, and fox are but a few of the anomalies whose coloring makes them an easy target as prey.

My care in Florida was always white to repel the heat.  With the frequent violent thunderstorms, white is the most visible car color in the rain.  And the little white haired partial year elderly visitors could see your car better, even though they were over eighty years old.

1.   Your boyfriend laughs at the stupidest moments.  He thinks its funny to laugh at a person who has diarrhea.

2.   Your boyfriend hogs the bed.  He’ll roll you off the bed in two seconds flat.  When he does fall asleep, he’ll snore like an oncoming train.

3.   Your boyfriend smacks his lips.  He’ll do it everywhere.  If you go see a movie, you can plan on big lip smacking sounds that will drive the other moviegoers nuts.

4.   Your boyfriend keeps his cell phone attached to his ear.  He never puts it down.  You have to take a number if you want to have a conversation with him.

5.   Your boyfriend cracks peanuts and lets the peanut shells fall to the floor.  Of course he expects you to clean the mess up.

6.   Your boyfriend constantly pronounces your name wrong.  Sometimes he just says “Hey you” when he wants to talk to you.

7.   Your boyfriend never flushes the toilet.  He explains that he is conserving water by not flushing it. 

8.   Your boyfriend scratches his head constantly.  He likes to see the white flakes land on his clothes.  He even sings “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” as the dandruff flakes swiftly make their descent.

9.   Your boyfriend sings all the time.  He sings in the kitchen.  He sings in the restaurant.  He always sings the same songs.  He has no ability to carry a tune.

10. Your boyfriend pulls on his left ear.  He even pulls earwax out of his ear.  He has an ear fetish.  He tries to lick your ear when making love, but you take

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out a bull horn and tell him to “Stay away from my ear!”

The offical definition of a White Christmas varies from place to place, some people class it as just 1 flake of snow defines a White Christmas others say that the ground must be fully covered with snow.

You cannot really tell whether it will be a White Christmas or not until the weather people have put out a report. Personally I think that snow at Christmas really adds to the overall Christmasy feel so I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.

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Tree choice is vital. Go for a tree that will retain its needles. To test your tree, gently grasp a branch between your thumb and forefinger and carefully pull it towards you. If a fistful of needles come off, you know it’s going to shed all over your new shag-pile carpet.

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• LIGHT FANTASTIC

Attach the lights first. Pick a green flex to mask wiring and for full effect use around 50 lights per 30cm(2). The current trend is towards

white shadeless lights. And the best effect is achieved by using a mix of static and twinkling lights.

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• BALANCING ACT

The best way to get a balanced effect is to decorate a quarter of it first, then match the other parts to that. If your tree is in a corner, you can leave the quarter at the back, saving time and money.

• ROUND RESULTS

Baubles of all sizes are a must. Cluster of six or seven baubles look great. To make them, thread baubles on fine wire and twist.

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