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Darter50516 66M
5669 posts
12/24/2022 12:24 pm
Seasonal Advice



Quite often we are given hints or advice as to staying on the right side of Santa.




However; as you can see just which of Santa's lists I am on...




A Merry Christmas to all our friends from JD, Ruby, Rosie, Ronnie, Pumpkin and your's truly... Bret.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/24/2022 2:13 pm

Our Friends can't get out of Chicago and will try to get here tomorrow ( Sunday ) I am going to roast a goose with dressing, sweet potatoes, baked beans, dinner rolls, pasta salad, and a Jello salad. Gawd what a mess the weather made this year. We are just getting dug out here too with traffic slowly getting back to a normal winter driving condition. Currently partly cloudy 10 F ... -12 C here with a steady wind.


serendipity_2012 74F
190 posts
12/24/2022 2:28 pm

MerrChristmast, Darter and to all your family and friends your Christmas dinner sounds delicious here we are doing the traditional turkey plus all the trimmings weather report here is 0 c blue skies and sun and a lovely warm wind lol going to get the tank top out and the flip flops lol take care


StarCandy1 69F
1796 posts
12/24/2022 2:34 pm

Have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year to all there ! HUGS


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
12/24/2022 2:39 pm

Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

Stay nice and toasty! Hope your friends make it there safe and sound!!


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/24/2022 3:19 pm

    Quoting serendipity_2012:
    MerrChristmast, Darter and to all your family and friends your Christmas dinner sounds delicious here we are doing the traditional turkey plus all the trimmings weather report here is 0 c blue skies and sun and a lovely warm wind lol going to get the tank top out and the flip flops lol take care
JHaaaaaa Flip Flops and end up on your rump here! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/24/2022 3:20 pm

    Quoting StarCandy1:
    Have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year to all there ! HUGS
Thank You Mmmmm. I hope Santa finds your family on the "nice" list leaving you a big pile of Christmas items.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/24/2022 3:23 pm

    Quoting Nileyears:
    Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

    Stay nice and toasty! Hope your friends make it there safe and sound!!
Our Christmas gets delayed a little bit; however, the roads were blocked, the airports could not keep the runways cleared, and <Max can't get our plane out of storage to fly here.


maudie1957 74F
1262 posts
12/24/2022 4:37 pm

A very Merry Christmas to you and yours. Hope that awful weather improves soon. Stay safe.


Hungr4Yungr 75M
803 posts
12/24/2022 5:51 pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS Bret, JD, MUTTs Inc, Pumpkin, Max and Alex. I do hope that M & A can manage to fly out of Chicago sometime during the holidays, and especially be around to celebrate JD's birthday with y'all. Hopefully your weather will continue to improve. Here we hit an unexpected high temp of 43F with a brisk SW wind. My driveway was snowed shut, so I spent 90 minutes behind the snow blower, and got soaking wet from the snow blowing all over me. Had to put my clothes in the dryer when I was done and put the snow blower back in the garage so it could melt down.

I had a nice Christmas Eve turkey dinner with most of the trimmings. I am going over to the neighbor's place for a visit and glass of wine at 7:45 pm. The coffee cooker is programmed to make a fresh pot at 7 am Christmas morning.

Merry Christmas to everyone that reads this blog.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/24/2022 5:52 pm

    Quoting maudie1957:
    A very Merry Christmas to you and yours. Hope that awful weather improves soon. Stay safe.
Just stuffing the Goose, made the scalloped corn, getting the potatoes peeled for the roasted garlic potatoes. May You have a Joyous Christmas with your friends and family too.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/24/2022 5:56 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    MERRY CHRISTMAS Bret, JD, MUTTs Inc, Pumpkin, Max and Alex. I do hope that M & A can manage to fly out of Chicago sometime during the holidays, and especially be around to celebrate JD's birthday with y'all. Hopefully your weather will continue to improve. Here we hit an unexpected high temp of 43F with a brisk SW wind. My driveway was snowed shut, so I spent 90 minutes behind the snow blower, and got soaking wet from the snow blowing all over me. Had to put my clothes in the dryer when I was done and put the snow blower back in the garage so it could melt down.

    I had a nice Christmas Eve turkey dinner with most of the trimmings. I am going over to the neighbor's place for a visit and glass of wine at 7:45 pm. The coffee cooker is programmed to make a fresh pot at 7 am Christmas morning.

    Merry Christmas to everyone that reads this blog.
MERRY CHRISTMAS ROGER !!! MAX & ALEX are on the way. Max hates to fly bat night but they got the plane dug out gassed up and they are on the way./ No idea when they will get here... Al;ex will call so we can go pick them up.


Hungr4Yungr 75M
803 posts
12/24/2022 6:02 pm

I'm happy to hear that Max and Alex are on their way. Hope they have a safe flight. Christmas is going to be good at your house. Enjoy!


myseek1 80F
1376 posts
12/24/2022 6:35 pm

Wow, you are roasting a goose, my traditional Christmas dinner, when in Germany! We serve it with potato dumplings and red apple cabbage. Our temps here are -6 C....brr.
Just got an alert that we might have a blackout as too many users are overloading the power grid.

I wish you a Merry Christmas! Stay warm and comfortable and enjoy the time with all friends around!


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi


Steamboy_2472 64M
410 posts
12/24/2022 7:10 pm

Well look at that I made the top of the naughty list 😂😂😂😂

Steve and battle buddy say Merry Christmas from Cali


looklook 84M
3925 posts
12/25/2022 3:19 am

Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year to you and yours, Darter. Enjoy the Dinner.


StarCandy1 69F
1796 posts
12/25/2022 7:55 am

I've been exceptional nice ! LOL No lumps of coal for me this year ! Got to get to cooking the and add finishing touches to a banana pudding pie. I need to make some air fryer potato Christmas trees still


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/25/2022 2:22 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    I'm happy to hear that Max and Alex are on their way. Hope they have a safe flight. Christmas is going to be good at your house. Enjoy!
They got here about 7 19:00 ... 13 F... -10 C here.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/25/2022 2:25 pm

    Quoting myseek1:
    Wow, you are roasting a goose, my traditional Christmas dinner, when in Germany! We serve it with potato dumplings and red apple cabbage. Our temps here are -6 C....brr.
    Just got an alert that we might have a blackout as too many users are overloading the power grid.

    I wish you a Merry Christmas! Stay warm and comfortable and enjoy the time with all friends around!
JD & Max went hunting and got 3 Canada Geese I did it up with a celery/onion dressing heavy on the sage. Even MUTTs Inc got in on the goose.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/25/2022 2:27 pm

    Quoting Steamboy_2472:
    Well look at that I made the top of the naughty list 😂😂😂😂

    Steve and battle buddy say Merry Christmas from Cali
YEP !!! You are above me on the naughty list. Pumpkin sends his season's meeeow to Battle Buddy.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/25/2022 2:28 pm

    Quoting  :

Best of the Holiday Season to you too.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/25/2022 2:30 pm

    Quoting looklook:
    Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year to you and yours, Darter. Enjoy the Dinner.
The Best to you too LOOK. I will try to get the explanatory blog posted ASAP If Alex assists me then a broader viewpoint!


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/25/2022 2:32 pm

    Quoting StarCandy1:
    I've been exceptional nice ! LOL No lumps of coal for me this year ! Got to get to cooking the and add finishing touches to a banana pudding pie. I need to make some air fryer potato Christmas trees still
Oh Yes I can easily tell you been so good unlike STR who has an entire Coal Train devoted to his house.


TwilightSpirit 56F
1243 posts
12/26/2022 5:44 am

Hope things get all worked out! I am late but Merry Christmas. My family is all coming tomorrow, which worked well since it left me on doubles through the Holiday at work, but it made things smooth,


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
12/27/2022 1:52 am

    Quoting TwilightSpirit:
    Hope things get all worked out! I am late but Merry Christmas. My family is all coming tomorrow, which worked well since it left me on doubles through the Holiday at work, but it made things smooth,
We have so little family left we have to rely on friends to fill the gap