O come, o come, all of faith and prepare to adore the King of kings and the Lord of lords!
Adeste Fidelis. Christmas Eve Open Comments
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Dayaam! 17.4 degrees here in South Alabama I can’t remember when it was that cold here last but at least the wind has died down. I’ve been out with dawg but thankfully she got her business done and back in the house pretty quickly. The good news is that she waited until I got up instead of getting me up at 2 AM.
Mornin’ Gang
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Good morning gang. Got down to about 13 but has now warmed up to 16 this morning. Supposed to get above freezing today. All my coffee shops are closed the next few days, so I’ll be drinking my own coffee it looks like. Not much football today – only one game I think. My outdoor animals have been eating everything I toss out there, but they need the extra to generate body heat during this cold spell. Brother’s family made it to the west slope of the Rockies yesterday evening after some 40 hours of flying from St. Louis top Austin and finally to Denver before making it to Grand Junction. Sounds like they had a pretty hectic trip, but they did finally get there. Local brother and his wife are both sick, so they are laying low this weekend. Looking like a good weekend to just stay warm and maybe talk on the phone to a few people, even though I still think the phone is an instrument of the devil.
Back in the good old days, Christmas eve was always a good time to go to the mall and do some people watching. They all seemed to have that panicked look in their eye, darting from store to store, looking for that last minute gift the had forgotten or put off buying. Store shelves a complete mess as inventory was depleted, and general insanity everywhere. Now days, it’s been quite a while since I’ve even been to a mall or a brick and mortar store other than grocery.
You all have a great Christmas Eve out there. Be careful if you are driving or even if you are walking. Stay warm, don’t drink too much – or do if you want to. I’ll be sitting here on the Couch instead of making my usual trip to see BFF since she’s gone now, but that’s OK too. More later as it develops.
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I just have to repost Texpat’s;
The 18 traitor Republican senators who voted for the Bankrupt America Act this week got all the attention and deservedly so.
The nine include Reps. John Katko (NY), Chris Jacobs (NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Fred Upton (MI), Rodney Davis (IL), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA), Steve Womack (AR), Adam Kinzinger (IL), and Liz Cheney (WY).
We can forget crybaby Kinzunger and Slim Ball Cheney since not only are they Democrats, they’re gone in a few days. ~SPITS~ ~SPITS~ AGAIN
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3 Super Dave
Every name I put in bold is leaving Congress and good riddance. Womack and Fitzpatrick are the only ones returning.
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The temperature has dropped another degree to 16.5 and since it’s after daylight I figured that will be our low for the day. They say the high will be 33, we barely made 33 yesterday and I don’t like it. Now I need to bundle up and go down to break the ice in the chicken’s water trough.
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At 7 AM EST here in northeastern New Jersey, it was 5° with a -9° windchill factor. We may have warmed up to 6 by now.
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This is the coldest I’ve experienced here in 19 years and 11 months. I’ve seen 9 or 10 degrees, but never 5.
We’ve warmed up to 8 and will top out at 15 today.
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Says here we are headed to 40 today. Nice! Buddy the Dog has a water bowl inside and outside on the back porch, maybe I’m done switching them out for one to thaw.
Today is the big day for wife’s family Christmas gathering, we go to oldest son’s house around noon to have our immediate family Christmas gift sharing, they go to two church services and get out here to our house about 7 with the rest of her family – cousins, nieces and nephews. Wife’s sister Robin was always the partner in all these arrangements, we’ve lost others in her family this year as well which wife is having a hard time with, but she is determined to make it a a celebration of them, not a memorial service. We owe that to the grandkids, this is supposed to be a joyful time and we will do our best to make it so.
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Made it to 18°, here.
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The Free Beacon Men of 2022 Awards:
Humiliating the press is one of the United States’ greatest traditions. Since the nation’s founding, intelligent and upstanding men have attacked journalists as annoying nerds unconcerned with truth. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1807, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
So when Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson fooled reporters into believing they were real Twitter employees who were fired by Elon Musk, the two cemented their statuses as Washington Free Beacon Men of the Year. Desperate to write sob stories about good liberals losing $300,000 a year salaries, reporters who wrote about the toils of poor Ligma and Johnson were instead revealed as the lazy partisans they are.
The con was ingenious, but not elaborate: The two stood outside Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters carrying cardboard boxes and—according to CNBC’s Dierdre Bosa—looking “visibly shaken” by their dismissals. They identified themselves as “Rahul Ligma” and “Daniel Johnson,” references to genitalia. We’ll let you Google the rest.
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Blessed Christmas Eve morning to all – our thermometer seems stuck at 22, but I guess it could be worse… And, blessedly, it IS dry
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I’ve seen very few mentions of busted pipes or power outages, I think we gonna beat this thing.
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Wife has a cousin on acreage in Fairfield, they share a well with ten others and they are last in line, dependent on upstream folks to prepare accordingly. Someone didn’t, so they have no water.
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Texpat – that’s awesome.
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#2 El Gordo,
Rejoice, for on this blessed day and tomorrow, BFF is there with you, you just can’t see her.
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#10 #14 – Absolutely a great one.
#15 – Thank you Ms. Adee. I think you are right about that.
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Texpat #10 BAWHAHAHA!!!
And of course, the gullible media class fell for that too. Socialist commentator Briahna Joy Gray, a full month after everyone already issued their corrections, said the picture of Musk with the two was Musk admitting his mistake.
Nope, you can’t make this stuff up. 😀
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Love living out in the semi-country. On the neighborhood FB group
Someone’s pig is out on Country Lane
😀
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The stupid back flow preventer on my unused irrigation system broke – again. I didn’t fix it from the freezepocalypse of 2 years ago and had all the valves closed; the valve body cracked. I had to shut the water off to the house, cut the infernal contraption off in 2 places only to go to the Lowe’s and buy what I thought was the right pipe plugs – they did not fit. I went to the local plumbing supply and the bastiges went home early. So I threw in the towel and called a plumber, they came in 2 separate vehicles at two different times and were both here at the same time and did not know it?!? Anyway, the two pipes got capped off and eventually, next week or next year, a new backflow preventer will get installed. My schnoz surgery is still preventing me from bending over for more than a few seconds – out of precaution. I can’t wait to get this blasted packing out. I am going to build an insulated box for that infernal backflow contraption so that I do not have to eff with the danged thing again.
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One year ago today, I just finished getting my first stent installed in the hospital. That was fun.
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Merry Christmas Hamsters.
At 7am it was 21 on the back porch, barely sunup. Now it’s 37 and rising fast in bright sunlight. Going to be cold today, only 40 something and still windy. No moisture to speak of and thus no sparkling frost.
A determined squirrel was this morning trying hard to get a drink out of the completely frozen fountain on the back patio. Hope he tried getting some water out of the stock tank nearby if some larger critter has broken the ice there. We will be out there this morning to punch big holes in any ice with a hammer. On really cold days the hammer comes out of the water partially frozen already.
In our horse-owning days we would punch holes in the ice in the water buckets inside the stalls when we fed them in the early morning and go outside later to punch hammer holes in the stock tank ice. On sunny but cold days the holes would usually stay open so the horses could drink as well as whatever wildlife was hanging around after the horses were finished. The deer always checked it out. Sigh, those were the days we could manage to do things like that. No horses, no mas. Setting water and food out on the patio for the wildlife, no problem.
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Someone’s pig is out on Country Lane
HEY that is not nice. That is my cousin’s, Cletus Box, wife. Sheesha Hawg Box likes to get out and walk too,
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Dang Bones what a bummer, I guess you don’t have a friendly neighbor to help out? At one time I had 3 go-to’s on my street but by the time I moved out I only had one left (Huntin’ Buddy) and dang if he’s not still there. He and his wife were planning on moving out the Clear Lake area since the traffic has become a zoo but wife is having separation issues with her new granddaughter. Wife reminds her that she has granddaughters 2200 miles away but manages to see them several times a year.
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I’ve seen Sheesha Hawg Box and she doesn’t walk she sashays. 😀
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BLOND JOKE OF THE DAY:
Two blonds were working on a house. The one who was nailing down siding would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail, look at it, and either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in. The other, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, “Why are you throwing those nails away?”
The first blond explained, ‘If I pull a nail out of my pouch which is pointed toward me, I throw it away because it is defective. If it is pointed toward the house, then I go ahead and nail it in!”
The second blond got very upset and yelled, “You moron! The nails that are pointed toward you are not defective! They are for the other side of the house!”
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I’ve seen Sheesha Hawg Box and she doesn’t walk she sashays.
Ya mean like this? Now I understand GJT’s neighbors confusion.
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17 bone
Do yourself a favor and install a new shutoff as close to the ground as you can. Right above that, put in a T with a valve on the base part of the T that you can use to drain the whole thing. Put a similar T arrangement on the outflow side near the ground. Just shut off the water, open the two little valves on the back flow preventer, and open the two drain valves.
I did that after snowmageddon. I didn’t bother to wrap it. Air won’t freeze at any temperatures we’re likely to ever see.
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#23 SD: My neighbor alerted me to the problem and brought over a box of fittings, unfortunately none would work. The guys that came over have not yet been back with an invoice so that we could pay them. I did give the guy who did the work a little bottle of Honeyshine. So far the irrigation system is just capped off and I am real good with that as it will not be used for quite a while.
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I did give the guy who did the work a little bottle of Honeyshine.
Well if you were closer I’d worked on for that. 😉
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I’m a man,
but I can change,
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It’s 32 now at Chez Harp, and above freezing all day until 8 pm. Sunday morning is more cold-and-miserable, but will be in the 40s by 2 pm for 80-Y.O.s Christmas meal.
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Up to 35 out here now, with very bright sunshine. Think I’ll take a walk around the house nd check everything out. I figure that if the little spinner at the meter is not moving that I’m OK and don’t have a water leak.
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Just tried a sample of Poffenberger’s Double-Black-Pepper Smoked Sausage. Wow. Had to buy some.
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Shannon
Did ya get the sausage from Belleville Meat Market?
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Finally checking in. My sleep schedule is shot all to heck these days. The weather is real pretty today, and after Bonanza I may just sit on my back porch bench to pray my rosary.
I’m walking without the walker today. I realized yesterday how much I was doing without it already, so I formalized my reality and transferred all my ‘carry with me’ items into a small back bag. It holds my meds, my “med taken” schedule, my phone, and my TV remotes. The grabber isn’t small enough to fit into the back so I just try to keep it in a place where I can get to it.
And I’m trying to walk more, when the bag monster hasn’t dragged me down onto the couch or bed. I’m sure that when I finish my pain meds soon, the sleep schedule should start straightening itself out. The muscle relaxants may still affect me, but when I take them both together, it’s lights out for me. I am trying to walk during commercials, as “small but frequent walks are recommended”. So I pace around the house until my show comes back on.
I’m trying to do without the back brace, too. I read the post-op instructions again, and my doctor said to use it for one week but the hospital said for 12 weeks. Hmmmm…..I guess I’ll use it when my back gets tired. I just have to be more careful about the no twisting/bending rules. It was easier to avoid those postures when I had the brace on. The brace rubs on my stitches, which is uncomfortable, but it does feel good to feel the support.
I checked out the C&C for today, which is a dusted-off version of a previous Sunday column. Sunday columns are available for paid subscribers only. He starts off with the prospect that the customers of Twitter, et al, has not been the customers. Nor the advertisers. No, it’s the GOVERNMENT. It makes sense with the revelations of how deeply the FBI was embedded in Twitter. I’ll go on reading it, but won’t quote it here. [insert sighs of relief here] Childers discusses several other “cutting edge” sites that are geared towards the customer and not the government agenda. In other words, “free speech” has become such an oddity that it’s only being recognized and practiced on other-than-mainline outlets.
Anyway, gonna try to get some work done. I’m trying to decide whether to stream the Christmas Vigil mass at midnight, or a morning service. I can’t go in person, dangit, but I can at least stream it at home. Annunciation has its own YouTube channel. I’m not allowed in any cars until next week, unless it’s an emergency or a doctor appointment. The third week I can drive if necessary. Let’s just say I won’t be grocery shopping. The idea of lifting any grocery bags into my car is verboten for some time to come. I’ll know how long after this Friday’s doctor appointment.
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I’m a man,
but I can change,
If I have to,
I guessYou’ve already got the purse, so that’s a start.
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Did ya get the sausage from Bellville Meat Market?
Yes, I was picking up a pound of their superb Pecan Smoked Sliced Brisket. Some tamales. Gonna try their (frozen) jalapeño hush puppies.
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When ditching a small plane onto a soft surface such as a plowed or muddy field or such, it is recommended that you land “gear up.” This pilot was unclear on the concept, since he has a fixed gear airplane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIIvUAA02s As you can see, when he came to rest his gear was pointed up.
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You’ve already got the purse, so that’s a start.
Yabbut I need to pose for this picture again with the epic beard and hair.
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Walk around the house and everything looks OK. Water meter dial is not spinning, and no evidence of water leaks. Looking at the electricity meter I may have an electricity leak though the way it’s spinning. I put a little hot water into the water trough outside. It appears to be frozen solid and it’s too heavy for me to try to move, but there is a little room on top for a couple of pitchers of hot water, so the animals and birds can get a drink for now. Since it is above freezing, they may have a little time to find water before it all freezes over again after dark. Also filled the bird feeder as they seem to like the black oil sunflower seeds during this cold snap.
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ERCOT asked the FEDS to declare a Texas Grid Emergency a couple of hours ago.
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How is Texmo and his lubly wife doing today?
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Just read a story about a woman whose fully loaded grocery cart got away from her and slammed into a parked car. Grocery Cart woman (GCW) tried to blame it on someone else, screaming it wasn’t her (GCW’s) fault.
Parked Car Man (PCM) got out of his car to confront GCW, and saw right through her accusations. Of course, the blamed person (who reporting the story) said the groceries didn’t belong to her. PCM turned back the harpy and asked if the groceries belong to her, GCW.
GCW kept insisting it wasn’t her basket, so PCM said “Well, I guess they belong to no one then” and proceeded to put all of the groceries into his trunk. GCW just sat there, unable to say anything.
It’s a good ending when the right people get theirs.
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Fact checking Shannon (I KID)
ERCOT gets federal permission to exceed air quality limits, noting possible risk of blackout amid freezing weather in Texas
So much for all the assurances of having enough energy.
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Better late than never – here’s the ice bound PIC: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/the-week-in-pictures-merry-christmas-edition-2.php
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I was able to fill the patio water tub, because the faucet out back was working well today. I haven’t been around to check the faucet on the east side, but it’s right outside my bathroom where running water and flushing are NORMAL.
I also haven’t checked the faucet on the west side — the only one I put a styrofoam cover on — but it’s right outside the kitchen wall, where water is barely dribbling when tested.
At least the central heat is working to keep us (me and 7 cats) alive. I also have 20 y.o. Millie on a small heating pad in my TV chair. She won’t sit anywhere else these days, and I don’t want her to get cold at all, at her advanced age.
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Pursuant to my comment at 11:55 AM yesterday about the review of the book, Don’t Go to College: A Case for Revolution, this happened in Utah this month.
Utah will no longer require a bachelor’s degree for about 98 percent of its civil servant jobs, according to a recent decision by the state’s Republican governor.
“The state executive branch has 1,080 different classified jobs. Of those, 98% – or 1,058 – do not require a degree,” according to a news release shared with The College Fix by Governor Spencer Cox ‘s media team. “Instead, the state’s hiring managers and hiring committees consider comparable experience as equal to educational qualifications at every step in the evaluation and recruiting process.”
and this as well,
“Degrees have become a blanketed barrier-to-entry in too many jobs,” Cox (pictured) stated in the release. “Instead of focusing on demonstrated competence, the focus too often has been on a piece of paper. We are changing that.”
This is one way to undermine the Deep State/Academia/Media Swamp. You start removing blocks from their foundation.
Trump was removing blocks and the Left became truly terrified because no Republican had ever tried to do that before. There was no way they could let him be elected again.
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Headline Of The Week
Was Santa Actually a Mushroom-Tripping Reindeer Herder?
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Merry Christmas, Dr phil, wherever you are.
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It says here that it’s going down to 6° tonight in Maywood, NJ. Then 13° tomorrow night. Then 15° Monday night. Etc. etc. etc.
They might get back up to freezing 32° next weekend.
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‘Twas the night before Christmas,
and all through the Sin-ate
Not a creature was stirring
not even a limpetThe transgendered pronouns were all hung,
by the chimney with care,
in hopes that drag queen story hour,
soon would be there;the NY Mayo Stain was nestled
all snug in his bed,
while Ukrainian hookers,
danced over his mayo stained head,And there was Zelensky,
standing with grubby hands out,
demanding mega billions,
freshly laundered, no doubt;When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
Mayo jumped out of his jar, to see what’s the matter.
to the window he limped , all sticky and slimy
He let out a sigh and regurgitated his salamihe heaved and ho-hoed, till his sides were a splitin,
then he gathered himself, cause the hookers were listenin’then what to his mayo stained eyes did appear,
But an alligator skin sleigh and eight tortoise reindeer
With a reptilian driver, drunk on laundered blood money
alas mayo stain knew, it was the Kentucky Turtle leader Swampyhis forked tongue slithered as his words, they came out,
he spittled and stuttered and called them by name;
“Now, Komodo , now Testudinidae, now Texas Cornhole and Leviathan!
On, Astrochelys ! on Gopherus on, Delecto and Murkykowski!Now dash away, dash away, dash away all
I’m the Kentucky Swamp Turtle, I command you all,Quite then a bit of scratching, was heard on the roof
And just right behind, a great sound and a hoof.Mayo then drew in his head, and was turning around,
down the chimney Swampy came, crawling on the ground
He was dressed in fleshy shell, from head down to foot,
And his underside covered, with grub worms and soot;a bundle of serpents, he had flung on his back,
he looked like a monster, just opening his pack.
His eyes — were lifeless, his jowls all droopy!
With 6 extra necks, he looked very spooky;His red little mouth was drawn up like a gremlin
And the drool on his chin was mixed venom and chitlins;
With the stump of a gecko, held tight in false teeth,
And there was blue smoke, round his head like a sheath;His face it was sunken and his tortoise eyes dangling,
That glowed red as he stared, into space out at nothing;
He was scaly and green, a quite dastardly site,
and Mayo he shivered,
in spite of the light;With a wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
gave Mayo to know, he was doppelgänger bred;He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
he filled all the stockings; then skank crawled and twerked
While laying his finger aside of his shell,
And giving a nod, like a serpent of hell;He crawled back to his sleigh, to his team he gave whip,
and away they all crawled, like lizards off a cliffthen Mayo heard him exclaim, as drew out of sight,
I’m the Kentucky Swamp Turtle, a GoopeeCon liar,
I serve my only master, the god of serpent fireBah humbug on America , I hate it everyday
I’m the permanent kill joy, busted open borders are my way
And to all of you commoners I say this very night,
I gave you an Ominous bus Christmas,
with utter delight,So now with great pleasure and this I proclaim,
the USA is over, farewell and good night! -
Isn’t that one Tedtam?
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Brave phil, Bravo!!!
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Good grief, doc.
That’s a masterpiece.
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Just in case you missed it.
At dinner time on December 2 , I received a text from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX, founder of the Boring Company, founder of Neuralink, on most days the richest man in the world (possibly history), and, as of October, the owner of Twitter.
Was I interested in looking at Twitter’s archives, he asked. And how soon could I get to Twitter HQ?
Two hours later, I was on a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco with my wife, Free Press writer Nellie Bowles, and our three-month-old baby.
In the days that followed, we—the journalist Matt Taibbi; investigative reporters connected to The Free Press, including Abigail Shrier, Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse; plus Free Press reporters Suzy Weiss, Peter Savodnik, Olivia Reingold, and Isaac Grafstein—camped out in a windowless, fluorescent-lit room at Twitter headquarters and began looking through the company’s vast archive of internal communications.
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Merry Christmas to all you hosers.
unck
bruddah Squawk
bsue
El G-man
texpat
super dave
bonecrusher
adee
wagonburner
katfish
tedtam
mharper42
gjt
did I miss anyone?
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The mysteriously infrequent Doood.
Merry Christmas, sir.
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And the missing Daniel James.
Who was last seen exiting the Gulf of Mexico aboard his yacht named I Told You So.
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Did ya get the sausage from Bellville Meat Market?
Is it available anywhere else?
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Looks like Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church has completely called off covid. The main church was packed. It looked like the overflow in the day school’s auditorium was similarly packed.
I can’t imagine what Midnight mass is gonna be like later. The vigil is usually very full, but the Midnight is usually so packed that you’ve got to get there almost an hour early to grab a chunk of a pew. It’s not too bad getting there that early; there’s lots of fun Christmas carols being sung.
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And Texmo.
Merry Christmas. -
Come on, Smacktle, I know you’re out there lurking.
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Betty-the-Crown-Vic-Copmobile is about 90% packed – some stuff gotta load at last minute of course!
Hope to be NE bound around 0500 +/-
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Hope texanadian made it home for Christmas.
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Merry Christmas Eve, and praying you all have a blessed Christmas Day – and Dr Phil, I feel like I’ve arrived. Thanx 😉
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Merry Christmas to all!
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Merry Christmas to all and to all goodnight.
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#55 Dr phil Good says:
December 24, 2022 at 6:25 pm
Merry Christmas to all you hosers.
Did I miss anybody?
Abuck says:
Merry Christmas from the “Peanut Gallery ” all.I’m better at Lurking than posting I have discovered.
Darren might echo that as well.
I really enjoy the great links and product reviews though.
I recently bought some of that great glass cleaner for my Truck and it is great.
Maybe after Christmas I will buy that high dollar toaster oven you all recommend.
I have it saved on my Amazon account but still not ready to lay down $400.00 .
Maybe I will after Christmas.
A special Merry Christmas to Coy (Silent Lurker) and his family.
See you for lunch next week at Firehouse 🙂
Later Folks and keep the great post coming.
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Abuck!
Firehouse? Avoid their not home made meatball subs trust me!
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Merry Christmas, 6Bits!
And everyone else on Das Couch…
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Merry Christmas Hamsters,
Peace to all and contemplation of the simple, real Christmas in the midst of all the other pomp and circumstance that has attached itself to that which came first.
G’night all and God bless.
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Since I can’t/won’t even think about sitting in a car for two weeks after surgery, I tried to “attend” my church’s Latin mass at midnight. All I got was a black screen, so I went searching for another Christmas mass.
I found one, but it took me a while to realize it was from Australia! I was trying to figure out why the Latin sounded funny.
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Here’s hoping the the blessings of this season falls mightily upon this crowd!
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Found this over yonder:
Washington Post’s MENSA chapter asked its members to choose one word from Webster’s; replace one letter, and then provide a new definition to it. These are the top winners.
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There is a special Christmas Day Post by Wagonburner.
Go there to comment on Christmas Day.
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