Christmas 2020

Krampus- Karol of The Bells

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It would not be Christmas without Krampus.

So today, to start off the Season, here’s a little tribute to my favorite Christmas legend.

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Children take care!
Please be aware
All that you’ve done
Will come to bear!

Have you been good?
Behaved as you should?
Those who have not
It’s understood

Krampus will come
Looking for some
You are not safe
Best that you run!

You’re on his list
Not what you wished
This Christmas time
You will be missed!

There is someone watching over all that you have done this year
Every little boy and girl please listen… Keep Christmas spirit alive!

If you believe
Given reprieve
Don’t lose your faith
Next Christmas Eve

Christmas is real
Show how you feel
If you forget
Your fate is sealed!

As you grow old
You have been told
Stay warm of heart
Keep out the cold

Now that you know
Reap what you sow
You have been warned
You have been warned!

All of you naughty children best prepare for some yuletide fear

This will be a very scary Christmas
If he finds you on his list
This will be a very scary Christmas
Quiet now I think he’s here!

 

Let’s Christmas This Blog Up!

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It’s going to be a long Thanksgiving weekend, so this is how I thought I would kick it off-

With a random fun post of course!

 

First off- some jokes:

 

What do you call Frosty the Snowman in May?
A puddle

 What’s red & white and red & white and red & white?
Santa rolling down a hill!

 What do you call Santa if he goes down a lit chimney?

 Crisp Cringle

 

And some music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAk-oiw5uWQ

A picture of ‘vintage’ ornaments. My Grandma had boxes of ornaments like these and they were the ‘fancy ones’ she hung up high on the tree.

 

Here are some ghost stories that are PERFECT reading for chilly winter nights and in case it’s not chilly where you are I included a GIF for you to enjoy at the end.

The Kit Bag

by

Algernon Blackwood

Christmas Reunion

by

Sir Andrew Caldecott

Listen to

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. JAMES (1862 – 1936)

Let’s Hear It!

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The only thing I love more then Christmas music is Christmas music that magically sounds better the louder you play it.

The ones that feature electric guitars are a perfect example.

Here are three of my favorites.

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But I Was Ready

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RDP Monday: EMERGE

 

I thought- back in September that for the Winter holidays things might be a little more

normal and that we could have a little  fun- if we were careful.

 

And then Halloween rolled around and that was fun

and then the election happened and that was loads of fun

and then we heard, what anyone who had been watching the Covid- 19 numbers saw,

that those hopes for a sort of normal, kind of fun Thanksgiving and Christmas was

probably  not  going to happen.

 

That sad fact became official here in Washington state over the weekend.

 

When I heard the news, I felt like a kid running up to the height chart in front of a

carnival ride and standing straight as I could but to no avail. I  missed the mark by a

hair- maybe two hairs.

 

One hair or two it did not matter because I was not going to get to strap myself into a

car, or a basket or teacup  and have the time of my life for a few minutes on a

crazy ride with lights and music and screams and laughter with the smells of food

hanging around my head like a dark  winter cloud.

 

I guess I’ll just do what I’ve been doing sine March and wait for my next chance to ride

the rides at  the carnival-

if it’s still there.

 

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