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To anyone here from the southern hemisphere who might be reading this:
May you enjoy your sweltering Yuletide. I wish I were there.
I have always wanted to face the direction of the course of the sun and see it rise on my right hand and set on my left hand --- as Herodotus reported.
" The Phoenicians sailed from the Arabian gulf into the southern ocean, and every autumn put in at some convenient spot on the Libyan coast, sowed a patch of ground, and waited for next year's harvest. Then, having got in their grain, they put to sea again, and after two full years rounded the Pillars of Heracles in the course of the third, and returned to Egypt. These men made a statement which I do not myself believe, though others may, to the effect that as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya, they had the sun on their right - to northward of them. " --4:42
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I received a message from Humphreysmar today, asking me to let you all know that she's spending the holidays in the hospital. I'm sure that she'll be in touch here as soon as she can.
Mellowicious
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A 45’s quicker than 409
Betty’s cleaning’ house for the very last time
Betty’s bein’ bad
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Thanks, Mell. Martha, Get well soon. I hope this is just a little glitch. Merry Christmas anyway, my friend. My brother, a long-haul truck driver, called me from someplace in Mississippi this morning to wish me a Merry Christmas. While we were chatting he told me he'd been driving through a town in Western Georgia the other day and stopped at the local Piggly Wiggly for a cuppa. As he waited in line to pay he glanced across the street and saw the life-size manger scene set up on the front lawn of the courthouse. What surprised him was the fact that the three wise men were all dressed in firefighter turnout gear.
He asked the woman at the cash register what was up with that and she scoffed at him. "Ya'll Northerners don't read your Bible, do you? It says right there that the three wise men came from a far."  We knows ar Bible herebouts thets fer sure. Snowing like a son of a gun here. What??? Might be my first white Christmas. Are you kidding me? Blek. Merry Christmas RR friends. I've been a wandering and haven't been around much. I hope you and yours are having a good one.
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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Good to see/hear from our wandering women today. And to Martha quick return home.
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
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Ah, wandering women indeed. Guess I can join that list.
Am only here for the moment...to say I posted the new opener and will leave this one as is for now.
It's early in the evening to post it, I know, but I have to be up way too early tomorrow to drive to Monroe, NY to help my son and d-i-l with my new grandson, Carson. He was born Monday. I was there for that but returned to VT for my son's birthday (yesterday) and Christmas with my two beautiful granddaughters.
Nor'easter expected tomorrow down Monroe way, so I hope to be on the road before dawn. (Yawn.)
Happy Holidays to all my RR friends!!
Vivian
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." ...Albert Schweitzer
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Goodness gracious Viv! I've had a mighty busy week but nuthin' compared to what you're doing.
Yall drive safe now!
My very best wishes to Martha and hope she's back on her feet(so to speak) soon.
Hi Julia! It's mighty good to see your face(so to speak) hope you'll come hanf out with us again someday.
Snow? In Athens? Crap. That means it gonna be colder'n a witches bosom's here tomorrow.
This Global Climate Disruption thing is a major pain in the wazoo.
Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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