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Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Christmas Open Gathering

Let us all rejoice in the coming of the Savior of man!

Luke 2 6:14

And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

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64 responses to “Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Christmas Open Gathering”

  1. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Merrrrrrrry Christmas Yall!

    Final packing n such to get rolling north………………

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Drive safely Katfish! It’s a balmy 24 degrees here, much better than the 16 yesterday morning.

    Merry Christmas and Mornin’ Gang

  3. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Good morning gang and Merry Christmas to all.  Crisp and cold up here as it should be on Christmas day, but alas, no snow to complete the picture.  Supposed to warm into the low 50s later today, so I’ve got that to look forward to.  Hope that you all have the greatest Christmas ever.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      El Gordo
      Can you contact Abuck? I noticed he got blocked logging in. Tell him his login name is “Abuck Syxbits”. Note where the space is.
      Thanks and Merry Christmas.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    May be an image of text

    Tedtam posted this on yesterday’s page this morning.  I thought it deserved a re-posting here.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Merry Christmas to the blog family! You guys are a blessing in my life.

  6. Abuck Syxbits Avatar
    Abuck Syxbits

    #4 squawkbox says:

    December 25, 2022 at 6:52 am

    El Gordo

    Can you contact Abuck?

    Squawkbox:

    Thanks for the heads up.

    I forgot the space but logged on through WordPress.

    Going to have to be retrained all over again. 🙁

    Katfish:

    Thanks for the heads up on Meatballs and Firehouse. So far their Italian Sub is still good and worth the 5 mile drive from Rosehill.

    Mhaper thanks for the 6bits. 🙂

    Merry Christmas to all again.

    Staying close to home this year so I’m looking forward to a relaxing day with the Cats.

     

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #5 Texpat That is great! I need to get out and water the chickens. Yesterday the water in the circular trough on the 5 gallon waterer was frozen solid and so was the extra 16″ X 4″ trough. I couldn’t do anything about the waterer since it wasn’t even 32 degrees yet so I dumped out the ice in the round one and filled it with water. It probably lasted until about dark but it’s certainly frozen now. Also the little pond was frozen over all but about 20′ in the center. The little Carp pond, by the Farm House wasn’t frozen but I guess that was because the circulation pump warmed it ever so slightly.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and what he said;  Merry Christmas to the blog family! You guys are a blessing in my life.

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Merry Christmas!

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Greetings and felicitations to my couch family..  Enjoy a blessed season..

    That MENSA thing is excellent as was Dr. Phil’s masterpiece yesterday.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just got back from taking care of the chickens.    😀

    I forgot to mention that since the water is shut of at The Farm House I had to use the water out of the 100 gallon stock tank and it had 2″ of solid ice on top. I had a hard time breaking it with a big rock.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t know who this Alaric the Barbarian person is, but he posted up an epic series of tweets on Twitter yesterday on the Left’s enviro-insanity.  Great stuff and excellent choice of supporting photos.  Keep scrolling.

    Alaric the Barbarian

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We’ve finally broken up through 20° to 23° here after hitting 11° last night w/-3 windchill.

    We get about a 4 hour reprieve from freezing before it drops down below 32° again on Tuesday.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Her Highness’ son lives now with his family in South Carolina.  They just moved into a big, expensive new home in August, this morning it hit 23° and the pipes froze somewhere.  I don’t have details other than no pipes broke although they froze and they have no water.  Strange.

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Alright, you hamsters….

  16. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Took a left in Arkansas and another left into Texas! *Waffle House!*

  17. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Waffle House sounds really good.

  18. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #4 – Well, I see that Abuck broke through the log jam on his own, so that’s a good sign.  Been fielding a few Christmas well wishes on the phone this morning, and since it’s now reported to be above freezing again, I’ll go out and check the water trough.  I’m pretty sure it was frozen solid yesterday, but it had a little room at the top so I poured a few pitchers of hot water in there enough to fill it to the top.  At least the animals had a chance to get a little drink.  It’s too heavy for me to just pour it out when it’s solid, so that will just have to wait until it’s melted down a little bit.

    All my plants that I expected to get nipped by the freeze got nipped.  The others appear to be doing OK so far.  I keep them on the south side of the house where they get daily sunshine as well as heat that leaks from the house and the radiant heat that builds up in the bricks on the side of the house during the day.  Could be that this is our February cold spell arriving early this year and the rest of the winter is not quite so harsh.  Of course, could be that it’s just going to be cold all winter long too.

    I had all my batteries laid out and stationed where needed in the event of power outage.  Also had the generators tested and ready to be deployed if necessary.  But so far, nary a flicker.  Keeping my fingers crossed on that one, but I may go ahead and put the batteries away.  I’ll go ahead and use the extra gasoline in my car as I just do not like to store that stuff any more than I have to; operating under the assumption that I can get more in time for the next storm is necessary.

    OK, I’m off to parts unknown.  More later.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Man, the internet is really bogged down today.  I haven’t seen it this slow in a long time.  I’m also getting security checks trying to open websites where I’ve never been checked before.  There must be some vicious cyber attacks going on out there in addition to the usual Christmas Day overload.  Even my bank has added extra security checks they’ve never had before.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Scroll down and check out this photo the New York Times editorial board used to prove there were armed right-wing militias at a children’s drag queen event.

    It’s hilarious.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Matt Taibi’s new Twitter Files drop in a highlight thread at Twitchy.  It wasn’t just the FBI infiltration – CIA was there too.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    What happens if your parents named you Karen at birth and you are now a student at Stanford ?  Are you banned from the campus ?  Are you a non-existent person ?  Does Karen become invisible ?  Asking for a friend.

    Then there are a bunch of expressions to which the IT department objects because they are too vivid, including “beating a dead horse” and “take a stab at it.” I would say that being against these terms is stupid or crazy, but both “stupid” and “crazy” are on the list as well.

    The list also includes at least a few terms that were themselves preferred over supposedly more offensive options until very recently. A good example is “survivor,” which used to appear as an acceptable substitute for “victim” but is apparently out of fashion: The IT department now prefers “person who has been impacted by.” This is a good example of how attempts to make language more politically correct almost always involve making it more cumbersome.

    But the list’s runaway winner for most baffling inclusion is: “Karen,” a term that only recently entered the cultural lexicon. Instead of saying “Karen,” the IT department would like people to say “demanding or entitled White woman.” (The latter strikes these ears as significantly more derisive, but I am not a Stanford guy, er, person.)

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    December 2005: Saturday Night Live

    Christmastime For The Jews

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #6 Tim

    You guys are a blessing in my life.

    EVEN ME???

    Well, I must say that it would have been a major catastrophe if we had lost HAMMIE… and EVERYONE ELSE. Thanks for keeping Hambone alive.

    Merry Christmas, gang!

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s 41.6 degrees in south Alabama Whoo Hoo! A heat wave.

    Oh and what ever you do, don’t click on Shannon’s  #16 Hamster post. 😉

  26. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’ve had enough cold weather to last the rest of my life! At least I have hot water. Well, at least I have hot water in the bathroom where I take a bath. In the kitchen — well, ‘fraid not. As I discovered last night, there was only a drizzle in the kitchen sink. I had to get some of the dirty cat bowls washed, so I hand-toted hot water in gallon jugs from my bathroom to the kitchen sink. That got us OK through feeding time tonight. I can do that hand-tote until we get back to normal temperatures so I can see where/what is going to require a plumber.

  27. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/there-will-never-be-a-trial-for-ftx/

    No trial for FTX?  Just like that phony arrest the day before he was supposed to testify in front of congress committee.  None of the politicians want to hear what he has to say since they were all in on the take from the beginning.

  28. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Went outside and pulled up a few dead plants and added them to the compost pile.  Ice is floating in the water trough, but if the animals need a drink, they can figure out how to get water from around the edges of the ice plug.  Found one ant bed.  Sunshine is bright again today, very bright.

  29. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Started watching the new Jack Ryan series on Prime.  We’ll see how that goes.

    I’ve upgraded my internet speed, installed my mesh network.  Every device connected to the assorted nodes seems to be operating perfectly and running at virtually top speed where ever located.  I had to run one ethernet cable from the kitchen to the den since I located the main router in there half way between each of the 2 extenders so that they could both connect directly rather than operating like a daisy chain.  I just ran it along the walls of a generally unused part of the house to eventually be relocated to the attic sometime maybe or maybe not.  No risk of tripping over it presently.  So as it stands, I only 2 or 3 years behind the latest in networking technology which should provide for my needs until I get 5 or 6 years behind – at least three years as it currently sits.  And most likely a lot longer.  I just can’t imagine that I would ever need a gigabit speed in this place, especially since virtually all of my equipment is way old and being propped up using linux systems.   I think my main computer started out as a Windows 2000 or something about that time.  I can run everything I’ve got all at the same time, plus add the visitors stuff over Thanksgiving, and still not notice any slow down what so ever.  But I do not have any gamers, which probably does make a big difference.

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I forgot to grouse about the indoor temps during this ice-bound holiday.  Centerpoint says set temp to 70° and wear a coat. Well, my cats don’t have any coats except for their own fur, so I’ve had my thermostat set downstairs at 76° throughout the freeze. But we’ve never reached 76°, best so far has been 73° during the daytime. Pretty sure this is due to most of the warm air flowing up the stairs to the 2nd floor. I think I do have the upstairs thermostat set at 70°. I am not going upstairs to check that or anything else.

    I was astonished yesterday that I rolled out of bed with no right-leg pain, and that lack of the pain I had lived with (off and on) for about 30 days has persisted through right now. I still plan to keep my bone doc appt on the 29th, whether the pain returns or not between now and then.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Merry Christmas and sympathy to all those cattlemen and women who have been out busting up ice in water troughs and stock tanks in the freezing cold across this nation.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve lost my three favorite pocketknives in the last few years to the TSA because I can’t seem to remember to put them in my checked bag.  I finally received a new sodbuster today.  I feel whole again.

  33. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Merry Christmas y’all! I’m glad this blog family is still here.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    TexMo good to hear from you, did you make it home for Christmas?

  35. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    My dad bought me a spring loaded pocket knife for Christmas. It is similar to what he has. He is going on a cruise with Mom and her sisters and their spouses next month. I told him to leave the spring loaded knives at home. They’ll get confiscated at the least or land him in trouble at the worst.

  36. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I am still in the hospital and I haven’t been allowed to eat in 14 days now. All nutrition is via TPN intravenous feed. Still waiting for my gut to heal itself.

    It will be a pain, but I should be able be to discharged home this week with all these drains and the IV line still in place and have home Healthcare nurse come by several times a week.

    I’d much rather convalesce at home.

  37. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #37 – Home is always the best place to be.

    Caught up with several old friends by phone today, and we talked about a number of other old friends that we have lost during the year.  We all know that there is a lot more time behind us than there is in front of us, and that’s just a fact of life.  Anyway, it’s been a nice day.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I think we should organize a big dinner for TexMo later this year when he’s back to eating like a normal carnivore.  Someplace on the west side of Houston?

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It just so happens that I live on the west side of Houston and I like to cook for carnivores.  Perhaps we could do this shindig in Glorious Copperfield?

     

    /I prolly should ask my lovely Mrs., but she will go along I’m sure.

  40. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Best Christmas movie ever:   The Lion in Winter.  Check it out. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/

  41. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I see where you have to pay to watch The Lion In Winter.  I’m a firm believer that everything on the internet should be free, but I would make an exception for this one.  It’s worth the $4 to watch it, especially if you can split up that $4 charge among several people.

  42. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    All moved in @ Motel (Memphis) – made it by sunset

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Ukranian master blade smith makes a tanto blade from Russian APC gun.

    This is a case where the handle really needs to be made for a complete piece, however, I get it.  Completely.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    43 Katfish

    Why are you in Memphis this time of year ?  The last time I woke up in Tennessee was in Nashville, in a Holiday Inn, and it was 4° with about a -15° windchill going on.

     

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I had a fab Christmas with 80-y.o. neighbor, his 60-y.o. son from Dallas, their Houston friend 80-y.o. Peggy, and everyone’s friend Irene who lives in the next block. Ken had cooked all sorts of festive food: roasted beef, rice pilaf, beets cooked with onions, a couple of other veggie dishes that I’ve forgotten the details, homemade biscuits, and anything you wanted to drink. I had iced tea. Everyone was too stuffed for dessert, so there was a 1-hour break followed by pie selection. Ken had purchased 3 exotic pies but everyone chose the peanut butter pie. Yuh, compared to pecan pie.

    Camaraderie was 100%.

  46. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #45 – Visiting Barb’s Son, DIL, grandson

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Regarding my #46:

    To my mind, there is no reason for any pie other than pecan pie. But 80-y.o. does not agree. Honestly, that store-bought peanut butter pie was a yucky mess.

    But in his favor, 80-y.o. has 2 miniature, aging dogs. I always enjoy getting to pet the little guys. And they seem to be drawn to me.

  48. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Im only the chauffer – the 95% EMPTY highways were WONDERFUL!

  49. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Fielded a couple more phone calls and a couple more text messages.  I’m about played out, but I’ve got to stay up until later so I won’t get up early in the morning again.  All the animals dropped by for their after sunset snack at the cat food bowl – 2 cats, 2 foxes, 2 possums that I’ve seen so far.  Some of the girls out back were getting a drink of water from the trough just before sunset, so it looked like they were able to get enough water out of the ice to make it worth their while.  I saw a lonely solo Axis doe out back earlier, so I imagine she has a fawn stashed out there somewhere.  The Axis do not have a season like the white tails do – they reproduce all year long.

    Christmas is just about over now, so we can break out the champagne, party hats, and horns and start warming up for the new year.  I’ll be warming up by going back to the eye doctor in a couple of days to see about glasses.  OK, more later before I turn in, if I’m able.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I have a niece who has her birthday today.  I always made sure to get her a birthday present AND a Christmas present when she was young.  I always felt like folks with Christmas as birthdays always got short shrift.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    At the last Box reunion, SQK was shocked that his great nieces grew up and started a band.

  52. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hope everyone had a nice holiday today.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I believe she’s got it.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sublime.

  55. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We had a nice Christmas, just my wife and me until about 3, sister showed up and later I fixed an easy meal of Texas Tamales, rice N beans. I think this is the first time ever that we didn’t have a big meal on Christmas day. When the wife was getting out the Christmas decorations a couple of weeks ago she found a Jig Saw puzzle that she got when the kids came over so this morning she started working on it but got distracted so when sister showed up they both started on it and almost finished it before supper. They both like Jig Saw puzzles and daughter is a world champion with them.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sublime Pt. 2

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Croquet and puzzles.

    Yep. Good times.

  58. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    It’s about closing time out here now.  Temp back down to near freezing.  I did get some work done in my flower bed today and added the freeze burned stuff to the compost pile.  Having a little small cup of left over chili to help settle my stomach here at bedtiime.  Hope that you all have a nice evening and let some of the excitement finally die down some.  Nite nite.

  59. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    It’s been a marvelous Christmas Day – starting with a wonderful sermon at church, then we “kidnapped” my singing partner from church, and went to the coast – saw bunches of birds at the Texas City dike, avoided the remnants of a car wreck at the entrance to our favorite Christmas dinner place “Kelley’s” at LaMarque – a place filled with wonderful food, and fond memories of many dinners with Squawk’s Dad, and Mom…And were blessed with the news that our subdivision’s water supply has been fixed (we’ve not had ours on for several days due to the freeze – and didn’t know until dinner last nite with baby bro and his lovely wife that they’ve not had water either due to some damage to the supply tanks or something… ) so tomorrow, when the sun comes up and the air warms, we can have running water again… Praying that all you marvelous occupants of the couch have been at least half as blessed as we have been on this wonderful Christmas Day

  60. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Today was a wonderful Christmas for us, quiet with just the right amount of outside stuff to look at after lunch. Lunch was leftovers from yesterday with some additions from odds and ends hanging around waiting to be noticed.  We dined out for our Christmas dinner yesterday at noon and brought a lot of it home for today.

    We called spouse’s brother and wife who live in a suburb of Madison, WI late this afternoon.  They had 4″ of snow two days in a row so it was a very white Christmas for them.  All is well with them, and there is good news that all is still well with Ozzie, who is a coming-on-13 year-old black Labrador that is on heart medication. He is just a bit slower of course because of his advanced age. Wonderful dog.  All is well with the kinfolk, too. 🙂

    And we were pleased that the Packers defeated the Dolphins in Miami today.  The temp at game time was 46 degrees there, as Florida also got some of the cold Siberian stuff like we did.  We were rather startled to see  so many home team players wearing long-sleeve shirts.  That was before we found out what the temp was.

     

     

  61. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Will somebody call Texanadian and tell him to come get his weather? It’s been here on my place since late last week. And talk about a drunk weekend, 17 on Saturday morning, 24 Sunday and now 20 this morning. He also needs to check that fence on the south forty.

    Mornin’ Gang

     

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Croquet and puzzles.

    Yep. Good times.

    HA! Well we did watch the first episode of 1923 last night and after sister left, about 9 we video chatted with the boy and his family for 30 minutes or so.

    It don’t take much to make us happy. 😉

    Oh and sister loves the Texas Tamales and HEB Charro beans.

  63. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Young and Healthy ABC News Executive Suddenly Found Dead at 37 Due to Mysterious Heart Attack.

    ABC News executive producer Dax Tejera reportedly died of a heart attack at the age of just 37.

    Tejera was a healthy, young man when his sudden death occurred. He was an Ivy League graduate of Dartmouth College and produced ABC’s Sunday show “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

    OK just let me adjust my Tin Foil Hat and close the Screen Room Door, I hate to be rude here but did it, could it have anything to do with the Jab?

    From comments; Absolutely tragic, Dax Tejera, Excecutive producer of ABC News, died of a heart attack at age 37. Incredible the number of young people who are having sudden death. Something is very wrong. May his soul rest in peace. ~Dr. Alejandro Diaz

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