I love Christmas time

**BmillsSkier** · 12-05-2019, 07:21 PM

If I had just one Christmas wish...

All that junk about the kids, wait...

**BmillsSkier** · 12-07-2019, 11:37 PM

SOLID Bro-in-law present:

Nieheus book and an annual National Parks Pass

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**BeardMech** · 12-07-2019, 11:39 PM

Fantastic gift for a skier. I would love to get that book

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**huckbucket** · 12-08-2019, 08:02 AM

I gave that book to my boss on the way out the door. The job sucked. The boss was worthy.

**BC.** · 12-08-2019, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

SOLID Bro-in-law present:

Nieheus book and an annual National Parks Pass

Damn...winner!

*update...

-ordered NP pass for my wife (going to Zion/Bryce this summer)
-ordered Nieheus book for my ski bro...and myself...lol

**cinnepa** · 12-12-2019, 04:35 PM

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**BmillsSkier** · 12-12-2019, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by BC.

Damn...winner!

*update...

-ordered NP pass for my wife (going to Zion/Bryce this summer)
-ordered Nieheus book for my ski bro...and myself...lol

Nice work.

Originally Posted by cinnepa

Dogs love napping in front of a tree. Convenient they just look good doing it too.

KQ · 12-12-2019, 06:28 PM

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**buttahflake** · 12-12-2019, 06:44 PM

This years tree.

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**Peruvian** · 12-12-2019, 07:18 PM

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**AK47bp** · 12-12-2019, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by KQ

Philly huh.

KQ · 12-13-2019, 11:00 PM

Behold the Spode guest bath in its full glory!

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**BmillsSkier** · 12-13-2019, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by KQ

Behold the Spode guest bath in its full glory!

NICE!

Our Christmas China and glassware is a perfect match.

Last weekend at the actual Christmas Story House

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**TBS** · 12-15-2019, 04:30 PM

**riser4** · 12-15-2019, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by TBS

You snagged one? Cool.

**Tech Tonics** · 12-17-2019, 07:05 AM

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**Meadow Skipper** · 12-17-2019, 06:39 PM

^ That’s pretty cool. Making it into Xmas cards?

KQ · 12-24-2019, 12:24 PM

WooT! Last Amazon package just delivered!

**BmillsSkier** · 12-24-2019, 02:13 PM

Lucky you. They won’t stop here.

**iceman** · 12-24-2019, 02:15 PM

They throw the stuff out the window as they roll by?

**riser4** · 12-24-2019, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

They throw the stuff out the window as they roll by?

Wasp nest too close to driveway.

**BigDaddy** · 12-24-2019, 03:51 PM

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**BmillsSkier** · 12-24-2019, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by riser3

Wasp nest too close to driveway.

I think we solved one of those two problems.

Thanks to y’all.

KQ · 12-25-2019, 09:36 AM

Sept 21, 1897, The New York Sun:

DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.