Christianity as codified by Church fathers at successive periods of history has very little to do with Jesus, that Jewish guy reported to have said that he came to fulfill the (Torah) law and not abolish it. A true follower of Jesus would be a member of a Jewish sect.
Cats treating the tree as an amusement park or the dog looking at it going "wow! An indoor toilet!" - pick your poison.
Bonus if you use a real tree. Say hello to insects awakened by the warmth, and finding needles in every sock, carpet, the linen closet, your toothbrush and beard until Midsummer's Eve.
God Jul!
Time to go out and light the heat lamp in the chicken house, it's -5F outside and it's dusk already.
I have 4. We lost a cat in October so down from 5. Once they’re old enough, they finally leave the tree alone. Our youngest kitty is 8. I highly recommend non-breakable ornaments on the lower branches for the first few years. Enjoy the new kitty and Merry Christmas!
I’m pretty sure that Steve guy at some point also said “ Lynn, have “we” done our Christmas cards?” Oh, sorry, I’m confusing him with my ex husband...😝
I try not to make “ex” references, but that one was all too familiar to me...preceded by the also redundant “ what did you get for my Mother?” Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!!
God Jul - and whaddya know, spent part of yesterday scraping snow off the yard. Guess what?
The temperatures risen during the evening, so now it's snowing. A lot.
Still, musn't grumble. Reclining on a reindeer-pelt, listening to julvisor (carrols) and nursing a glass of our home-made apple-wine, served mulled and mixed with mead, all of it spiced with cinnamon and cloves.
Don't be ashamed. Christmas cards illustrate one of those natural divisions of labour. The ladies don't have to feed the stock at 40 below, and the male of the species is not required to try to remember all of Aunt Eunice's kid's names. All according to God's plan.
I suspect you're selling Canadian women a bit short, Andy. Women in WA, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Minnesota and the Dakotas definitely feed the stock at 40 below. Your women are just as rugged.
Simply quoting 'the law' as explained by my mother nearly three quarters of a century ago. (As my father was bundling my brother and I up to fork hay off the wagon in the pasture at 40 below). My aunt, in western Montana, (with whom I lived for several years), shared that opinion.
My Dad, and my Uncle, were both strongly in favour of hot meals in warm houses after a January day outdoors in Alberta or Montana. It was a fair trade!
I will never forget shoveling 2 feet of "partly cloudy" off the driveway, with the snow filling in behind us as fast as my brother and I could shovel it off. I could barely keep the horses watered as the water buckets froze up shortly after I had hung them in the stalls, after hauling them from the faucets in the house. The Pacific Northwest gets hit with an Arctic Blast every 10 years or so and we end up with a couple of feet of snow, and everyone loses their ever-loving minds. Oh no! It's Snowpocalypsemageddon!
That's exactly what happens in Scania, the deep south of Sweden. Every ten-fifteen years there's a combination of factors contributing to feet upon feet of heavy wet snow falling during just 24 hours.
And everyone reacts as if it's never happened before.
What's funny about it to me is, that snow generally doesn't stick around for long. The temperature often jumps to +10C during winter down there, so you can imagine what happens when 4' of snow melts over the day, and the temperature then drops to below freezing during the night.
The media usually does their best to amp up the panic too, as always.
I don’t know about now a days…but my husband loved the tradition, had to approve the card, the picture…. Just didn’t contribute to the “ getting them done” process. My comment was that a simple “ thanks Dear for doing our cards” would have been more appropriate than the collective “ we.” Merry Christmas!
My Father and uncle, both Norwegians, always argued whether to say God Yul of Gladly Yul at each Christmas gathering, usually some time after the pronouncement SKOL! which begins the mandatory 3 days of drinking.
Thanks to Lynne for turning on the high pitched shrieking, teary eyed laughter that is so good for the heart. The first read through had me going, and everyone else in the room wondering what the hell was wrong with me! Haven't felt that good in a long while, not since a cartoon titled "When clowns go bad" 😂
Wow. Your Jesus memes managed to offend even me, way to go.
Aren't you glad we Christians use prayer instead of vivisection when our faith is dememed? 😉
Merry Christmas. 🎄
well, i did promise to eventually get to everyone!
merry christmas!
Merry Christmas el gato malo! The Jesus meme was a groaner but you did give fair warning. As a Christian and Crossfit afficionado I appreciated it:)
Merry Christmas gato.
Thanks for helping to keep me on this side of the abyss for three years.
Merry Christmas back atcha!
Catapostasy!
cat-echism.
Incatations!
Incatnate!
The Catican.
I'm going to hell!
The Catitudes, Caturgy,, Holy Catrimony
I'll come down one level and visit you in hades!...lol...;)
the cat-lick church...
Maybe we can meet up in purrr-gato-ry.
😂🤣😂 in a handbasket thst you'll have to fight some giant cat for...
This is the stuff of nightmares!
Cheers I&K!
Cheers and continued Yule Tidings , my friend!
You Christians are great with the sword and the pyre and the wheel, too.
We are?
Jesus Christ preached: "Love thine enemy". Anyone who doesn't follow that teaching shouldn't be identified as a Christian.
Peace.
Christianity as codified by Church fathers at successive periods of history has very little to do with Jesus, that Jewish guy reported to have said that he came to fulfill the (Torah) law and not abolish it. A true follower of Jesus would be a member of a Jewish sect.
Best as I can see, you ain't.
I don't worship or follow church fathers.
So, I guess I don't qualify in your eyes, as per the wisdom of sinful men. Fine by me.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too!
Bueller... Beuller...
Hahaha, someone got it. 😉
Where can I get that shirt? It's perfect ;)
Here is the long sleeve version of the t-shirt. There are many styles.
https://tigersweat.com/product/naughty-nice-on-a-government-watch-list-shirt/
thanks !
The FBI Merch site.
I gave in to a 2nd cat this Christmas after two years of getting our first one.
Do NOT put tinsel on your tree...it gives them catourette syndrome.
Cats treating the tree as an amusement park or the dog looking at it going "wow! An indoor toilet!" - pick your poison.
Bonus if you use a real tree. Say hello to insects awakened by the warmth, and finding needles in every sock, carpet, the linen closet, your toothbrush and beard until Midsummer's Eve.
God Jul!
Time to go out and light the heat lamp in the chicken house, it's -5F outside and it's dusk already.
I have to put a fence around the tree to keep my crazy dog away. Thankfully the cat is too old to care.
Yeah I have two dogs as well.
They're all NEUROTIC
Probably caught it from their master.
Merry Christmas
For sure. I love the little fockers though
I have 4. We lost a cat in October so down from 5. Once they’re old enough, they finally leave the tree alone. Our youngest kitty is 8. I highly recommend non-breakable ornaments on the lower branches for the first few years. Enjoy the new kitty and Merry Christmas!
Great recommendation. Thankfully my kids are now just getting old enough to help with the pets.
Now the struggle with fur in everything will never stop! Can't win that one.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, to you and your family, Rikard! From the other side of the globe. Bandit
God Jul and a Merry Christmas too, to you Bandit!
Americans in Sweden has it best: Jul on the 24th and Christmas on the 25th. Bonus!
Double the presents, double the fun! 😊😉😋
Thank you and the same to you!
There's still tinsel???? I want some!
It's aluminium foil and a shredder....
haha! for reals??? Now I want to try that....!!!
Dude. You're funny. Always read your post for comic relief
Oh yes. I'm old school
My cats always had “sparkle poop” during the holidays. It made changing the litter box so festive!
"Wasn't me!".
That's the look I get
El Gato Malo is enough for me. You should see my tree.
I’m pretty sure that Steve guy at some point also said “ Lynn, have “we” done our Christmas cards?” Oh, sorry, I’m confusing him with my ex husband...😝
Did we marry the same guy? : )
I try not to make “ex” references, but that one was all too familiar to me...preceded by the also redundant “ what did you get for my Mother?” Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas as well. I was just being a smart-ass. It’s a serious flaw in my character. : )
NEVER change!
Thank you
It’s in our DNA.
There you go - changing the meaning of "flaw".
Some of us like you just like you are.
Merry Christmas
Thank you
Lmao
The recognition-factor is high in this one. :)
Fair's fair - the wife does indeed send out all the cards every year (and puts up all the ones received on the walls).
Me, I have to deal with all the phone calls instead - not seldom mid-chew, or during the after-feast coma.
Now get off your lazy boy and go shovel some snow!
Merry Christmas Rikard!
God Jul - and whaddya know, spent part of yesterday scraping snow off the yard. Guess what?
The temperatures risen during the evening, so now it's snowing. A lot.
Still, musn't grumble. Reclining on a reindeer-pelt, listening to julvisor (carrols) and nursing a glass of our home-made apple-wine, served mulled and mixed with mead, all of it spiced with cinnamon and cloves.
And the wife's prepping second supper.
If I'd been short, I'd be a hobbit for sure.
Sounds like you need a solo vacation in Florida.
Look me up!....
Somehow that never seems to count for as much.
I didn't do our Christmas cards either.
*hangs head*
Don't be ashamed. Christmas cards illustrate one of those natural divisions of labour. The ladies don't have to feed the stock at 40 below, and the male of the species is not required to try to remember all of Aunt Eunice's kid's names. All according to God's plan.
Happy Christmas, Pi.
I suspect you're selling Canadian women a bit short, Andy. Women in WA, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Minnesota and the Dakotas definitely feed the stock at 40 below. Your women are just as rugged.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Simply quoting 'the law' as explained by my mother nearly three quarters of a century ago. (As my father was bundling my brother and I up to fork hay off the wagon in the pasture at 40 below). My aunt, in western Montana, (with whom I lived for several years), shared that opinion.
My Dad, and my Uncle, were both strongly in favour of hot meals in warm houses after a January day outdoors in Alberta or Montana. It was a fair trade!
Merry Christmas
Ah, had you mentioned the 75 year historical footnote, I wouldn't have bothered. (-;
I will never forget shoveling 2 feet of "partly cloudy" off the driveway, with the snow filling in behind us as fast as my brother and I could shovel it off. I could barely keep the horses watered as the water buckets froze up shortly after I had hung them in the stalls, after hauling them from the faucets in the house. The Pacific Northwest gets hit with an Arctic Blast every 10 years or so and we end up with a couple of feet of snow, and everyone loses their ever-loving minds. Oh no! It's Snowpocalypsemageddon!
Mrs. "the Knife"
That's exactly what happens in Scania, the deep south of Sweden. Every ten-fifteen years there's a combination of factors contributing to feet upon feet of heavy wet snow falling during just 24 hours.
And everyone reacts as if it's never happened before.
What's funny about it to me is, that snow generally doesn't stick around for long. The temperature often jumps to +10C during winter down there, so you can imagine what happens when 4' of snow melts over the day, and the temperature then drops to below freezing during the night.
The media usually does their best to amp up the panic too, as always.
I'm glad that we're doing it right then.
Merry Christmas, my friend!
I think most husbands would be perfectly fine not doing Christmas cards.
I don’t know about now a days…but my husband loved the tradition, had to approve the card, the picture…. Just didn’t contribute to the “ getting them done” process. My comment was that a simple “ thanks Dear for doing our cards” would have been more appropriate than the collective “ we.” Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Gato Pals!!! Hugs all around!
Right back at you! Thanks
Yule Tidings, JViv!
Thanks for the math lesson. No wonder I failed l-g-bra.
I loved the math lesson!
*flashes nerd card, fist bump*
Meowy Xmas!
Merry Christmas El Gato. You enrich my life.
God Jul!
Feast and celebrate, for now the Sun returns as Freja turns in her slumber and the Rimturs are driven away by the sound of merriment.
Don't forget to set out a plate with tidbits for Tomten.
My Father and uncle, both Norwegians, always argued whether to say God Yul of Gladly Yul at each Christmas gathering, usually some time after the pronouncement SKOL! which begins the mandatory 3 days of drinking.
I think the debate might stem from there being two versions of norwegian:
Bokmål and Nynorsk (Book-speak and Newnorse, approx. - my off-the-cuff translation).
I think the aquavit may have played a role. My father was born in Bergen Norway, my uncle was born in Stanley Wisconsin
Skol!
Merry Christmas to you too! Thanks for making me laugh every Sunday morning🤣🙏❤️
Thanks to Lynne for turning on the high pitched shrieking, teary eyed laughter that is so good for the heart. The first read through had me going, and everyone else in the room wondering what the hell was wrong with me! Haven't felt that good in a long while, not since a cartoon titled "When clowns go bad" 😂
Merry Christmas Gato!! You bring joy throughout the year.
Most excellent! Extra catnip in your stocking and a Merry Christmouse!
Merriest of Christmas to Bad Cats of all stripes!
Merry Christmas El Gato and all you wonderful fellow subscribers. You bring joy to an increasingly sad world.
I love giving my friends gifts that have been "notarized" by one or both of my cats
They still use their embossing tool. They get kind of BOSSY if I shoo them away
I make many gifts; dog and cat hair come with every gift, mine as well if I happen to be pulling my hair out.
"dog and cat hair come with"
...my entire wardrobe.
There is that. I don’t wear black or white for that matter : )
Clever
mine usually use the chomping method on packages.
I like giving fancy calendars for Christmas. They usually have a "stamp" on the corner
😂