Happy Boxing Day!

hippiechk · Dec 26, 2013

Hi all;

My holiday spirit is still intact and I'm still in full seasonal celebrate mode. In Canada, and parts of the rest of the world its still a statutory holiday! The party/family celebrations continue...

Only retail, and sadly its the biggie retail "sale day" in Canada, and essential service type places are open today.

Actually in a lot of Canada many independent business'/professionals and a lot of the manufacturing sector will shut down from the 23rd of December through to reopening on January 2nd.

There are in addition to the celebrating winter chores to get to in a majority of Canada... should shovel the snow load off the roof ... ditto for relocation for the started out the season a bit lazy pile that grew somewhere inconvenient for a puddle in the spring... vehicles to finally get fully winterized, probably including getting the winter safety gear into the vehicle ahead of the January storms, but that's only for the vast majority of Canadians huddled near the southern border...everybody else had to do it over Labour day because they have been digging out for a while now, and well its way to late to swap to your winter tires by now because you'd already have a legal problem with insufficient equipment...Bless the all season tire although I'd still have to carry chains in the "place where they send my mail"!

And some people ask why I am south for the winter *laugh*...

Back to the Merry Making for me...its getting quite light here in Texas and the day is much warmer...

Hugs and I believe the mistletoe is still up!

wagoneer · Dec 26, 2013

Your up early, someone told someone else I was in the Long John market, well I no longer have just one pair. colors to choose from as well, Stay well.

caseyc · Dec 26, 2013

Happy holidays to you! Gonna crash the stores today for doing returns and exchanges?! I rarely buy gifts anymore. Pretty much the only person I've been buying gifts for is the GF, other than that, my family and friends don't expect or want it. So that's a good thing. We usually eat a lot instead. On Christmas eve, I had a juicy prime rib dinner with some family members at a popular restaurant and the bill came out to nearly 4 Benjamins. Rather expensive for prime rib, but it was all about the ambiance, quality and socializing, so it was worth it. I sometimes miss the whole holiday joy spirit that I used to have when I was a kid. Nowadays, the holiday season simply seems to me like a "nice" time of the year, but not necessarily extra special. Maybe I'm just getting old(er). Oh well, such is life. Bah humbug, by the way. Juuuust kidding!