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So, it's Christmastime.  I have vowed this year to NOT watch any themed movies this year.  No It's a Wonderful Life, no Christmas Vacation, no flicks with Scrooge, Kurt Russell as Santa or "He/she saved Christmas".  Nothing.  Is it my mood, maybe.  Or perhaps it is living in a place where you can count on it NOT snowing.  This is Kitschland, the place where folks throw lights on their palm trees and shop in shorts and 2012 Bike Week T-shirts.  I refuse to put a ribbon on a pig and call it a Holiday.  In Dante's Inferno,  he describes nine concentric circles of Hell.  Surely, Florida is one of them.     

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I don't think we ever had these types of lights, but I think my grandparents did.  




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As they say in a gynecologists office, posts will be spotty for the next couple weeks. 


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For all of you who are sending letters and postcards wondering how Whizzbang is doing, she is fine and has 2 packages ready to put under the tree.  One from Bark Box and the other from Bullymake.  




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Biden and his "Challenge me to do pushups, Man" is embarrassing.


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Temps are going to drop to the 68 degree-ish area next week.  Can't wait.  Down here that is equivalent to a 12 inch blizzard up north.


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While back North last month I got a call from Kenze asking for leaves - good old Northlandia leaves for an art project.  Here is a portion of them drying for transport.
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