Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah! :0) (dog, fruit, season)

[countrylv22]

HELLO EVERYONE!!!


I got a GREAT VISIT from the CHRISTMAS MOOSE!!

THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE!!! THE CHRISTMAS WARTHOG!! THE CHRISTMAS

LEPRECHAUN!! ALL IN ONE!!! WOW!!!!

THANK YOU GUYS!! FOR MAKING ME SMILE, LAUGH, ENJOY this forum so

much!!!

Thank you for your kindness & warmth, and all of the amazing wishes!

HAVE AN AMAZING NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION!!!

And may 2008 be a very BLESSED YEAR in every way possible!!!

THANK YOU ALL!!! YOU ALL ARE WONDERFUL!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

CHEERS!!!

Take good care!

Countrylv22

[moughie]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Thank God huh! Mine either! Did get those short whiskers right in the middle stuck on the tab of a soda can one afternoon though. Ever hang a full 12 oz soda off those babies? If not, trust me, pass on that trick!

too funny!!!
I must share with dh- he has a "stach" and goatee.
Maybe a new thread for mustache/beard tricks???

[moughie]

Originally Posted by quiet walker

. And also to one who sent a Christmas Kiss (!!) Oh My! now that one is _very_ interesting to this old (and available) bachelor

Thank You Everyone

How sweet quiet!!!
Perhaps there are available bachelorettes ( what a politically incorrect term:, I fear) on this forum???

[elston]

Originally Posted by moughie

How sweet quiet!!!
Perhaps there are available bachelorettes ( what a politically incorrect term:, I fear) on this forum???

LOL sounds like the old quizz show.......what screen are you behind????

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by moughie

How sweet quiet!!!
Perhaps there are available bachelorettes ( what a politically incorrect term:, I fear) on this forum???

Well the older term "spinster" is even less politically correct <g> but were I one, it is what I would call myself. Instead I am a divorcee... but never use that one either. But then I am not "looking" either. Strikes me there really are only two relevant forms but not good shorthand for either... "available and looking" and "not available and/or not looking" I guess that could be AL and notAL? or would that latter be ØAL?

[forest beekeeper]

Spinster is a good phrase to use.

We should use it more often.

[elston]

Is "Spinster" equally applicable regardless of gender? Of course not! "Spinster" implies that the person somehow missed out and is defined by their lack of a husband. I wonder if it has to do with someone who has all the time in the world to sit and spin and weave and churn butter and do household chores. The male equivelent, "bachelor" implies he is still "on the make" and "hasn't settled down" hasn't limited his options to just one mate.

"Divorcee" also seems to be more frequently used for females....and has an implied threat to the married ladies similar to the "merry widow". "Widower" is also much less often heard than "widow".

What any of this has to do with Maine beats me unless we turn it to the discussion of Widow Walks where the seacaptains wife, kept vigil for year after lonely year, watching for a sail on the horizon.

[Eastport4me]

A widow's walk (or roofwalk) is a railed rooftop platform, typically on a coastal house, originally designed to observe vessels at sea. The name comes from the wives of mariners who would watch for their spouses to return. In some instances, the ocean took the lives of the mariners, leaving the women as widows; who would often thereafter gaze out to sea wishing beyond hope that their loved ones would return home and hence the name widow's walk was born.
Also beyond their use as viewing platforms they are frequently built around the chimney of the residence creating an easy access route to the chimney. This allows the residents of the home to pour sand down burning chimneys which would otherwise burn the entire house down.

Anyone have a sea captain in their ancestry? Peaks my interest.

[Huckleberry3911948]

happy new year, health and prosperity!

[elston]

Originally Posted by MEnME

A widow's walk (or roofwalk) is a railed rooftop platform, typically on a coastal house, originally designed to observe vessels at sea. The name comes from the wives of mariners who would watch for their spouses to return. In some instances, the ocean took the lives of the mariners, leaving the women as widows; who would often thereafter gaze out to sea wishing beyond hope that their loved ones would return home and hence the name widow's walk was born.
Also beyond their use as viewing platforms they are frequently built around the chimney of the residence creating an easy access route to the chimney. This allows the residents of the home to pour sand down burning chimneys which would otherwise burn the entire house down.

Anyone have a sea captain in their ancestry? Peaks my interest.

Yes, at least I think so according to family history as borne out by some artifacts. Captain William Hart was a privateer in the Revolutionary War.

(Privateer was a nice term for captain who supported the colonists, by attacking and sacking British ships. It was patriotic and dangerous, but it also had a profit motive.)

We have a large oil painting in the family of Captain Hart in a military style uniform. He later became a successful contractor and lived on Hanover Street, in Boston. My grandfather points out "being a fine residential street at the time."