11-21-2007, 04:50 PM
No guilt KathyH, please
that's the dea herel, there should be guilt if you don't have , can't get, can not do. I was an alterboy, I gave up feeling guilty when the church changed from latin to english, turned up the lights and began facing the people and I understood what they were saying. Well poo, didn't I, as a child feel like, what's with the lies? To heades with guilt.
Yes, I too have fond memories of pine smell and the whole picture. Heck got 7 brothers and sisters and it was like the Walton's only catholic not baptist, and not nearly as pleasant. This was before the show Eight is Enough. It's too many, trust me. One christmas when I was 10 though, and had an ear infection, my mom let me sleep on the couch in the livingroom with the tree lit all night. Got the big Jaguar XKE model that I know they couln't afford with 8 kids but I was hurtin, throbs to the eardrum everytime you swallow. No matter that was then, this is now.
600 years ago in germany when they started this, there were more forests in the world than today. Farmed or not it would make more sense to grow hemp on the same land for fuel.
It will all be irrellivent very soon. At $10. a gal for gas by next year? Ok $5. but it's only a matter of time it will be $10. eventually and only the well spoiled will continue to get those farm grown spruce, even when they will be $150. ea. Complete with german wasps. Ya vol!
Many things from out childhood we can,... still do,..... but should we.... still do them, is the question to ask yourself, grasshopper? Christmas on the mainland has more baggage with it, than cheer. Hawaii I find IS, christmas and thanksgiving everyday of the year, ALOHA.
Why do "we" (non-hawaiian born) have to have all the stuff we had somewhere else and bring all over the world and shove it down everyone's throat?
Personally I can't wait till Jan.1st (erin!) when all this is over again for awhile. Too much work these holidays. Maybe I'm just gettin too old, ba hum-bug in the rug.
Happy Turkey Gluttony Ya'll,
I think I'll have Atlantic Salmon
KEEP PUNA RURAL
that's the dea herel, there should be guilt if you don't have , can't get, can not do. I was an alterboy, I gave up feeling guilty when the church changed from latin to english, turned up the lights and began facing the people and I understood what they were saying. Well poo, didn't I, as a child feel like, what's with the lies? To heades with guilt.
Yes, I too have fond memories of pine smell and the whole picture. Heck got 7 brothers and sisters and it was like the Walton's only catholic not baptist, and not nearly as pleasant. This was before the show Eight is Enough. It's too many, trust me. One christmas when I was 10 though, and had an ear infection, my mom let me sleep on the couch in the livingroom with the tree lit all night. Got the big Jaguar XKE model that I know they couln't afford with 8 kids but I was hurtin, throbs to the eardrum everytime you swallow. No matter that was then, this is now.
600 years ago in germany when they started this, there were more forests in the world than today. Farmed or not it would make more sense to grow hemp on the same land for fuel.
It will all be irrellivent very soon. At $10. a gal for gas by next year? Ok $5. but it's only a matter of time it will be $10. eventually and only the well spoiled will continue to get those farm grown spruce, even when they will be $150. ea. Complete with german wasps. Ya vol!
Many things from out childhood we can,... still do,..... but should we.... still do them, is the question to ask yourself, grasshopper? Christmas on the mainland has more baggage with it, than cheer. Hawaii I find IS, christmas and thanksgiving everyday of the year, ALOHA.
Why do "we" (non-hawaiian born) have to have all the stuff we had somewhere else and bring all over the world and shove it down everyone's throat?
Personally I can't wait till Jan.1st (erin!) when all this is over again for awhile. Too much work these holidays. Maybe I'm just gettin too old, ba hum-bug in the rug.
Happy Turkey Gluttony Ya'll,
I think I'll have Atlantic Salmon
KEEP PUNA RURAL