Christmas is coming....

Friday, December 19, 2008

Here she is, big as life in the Daily News-over to the left of the guy with his hand in the air. This is a picture from the "town meeting" Monday night. A 40 year old woman (that isn't her in the picture) fell off a dock at 4AM yesterday morning on City Island. Our firehouse was fully staffed and they got her out of the very cold water within a few minutes. Not sure if waiting for firemen to come from Co-op City would have had as good an outcome. But then, I am guessing she was probably pretty well preserved with alcohol to pull a stunt like that.

Is this really what we are meant to do? Put trees inside our houses? Every year I can hear my father saying, "What do you want me to bring an old dead tree inside the house for anyway?" A friend of mine who grew up with us says that whenever he thinks of Christmas he thinks of the McIntyre's Christmas tree, all covered with angel hair. Funny, the things we remember, isn't it?

A few hours later it looked like this. Still has no decorations. Many would say that the easy part is done. I think it is a toss-up.

The Three Kings are hanging out on the other side of the room just like they used to on S. Warren. They figured they would hang there with Marguerite since she has the bottle of beer.
That is why they are sometimes called The Three Wise Men.

Speaking of S. Warren, I went to Stop & Shop Monday and looked for the Christmas cookies that Charlies loves. I did find lots of Archway cookies but not those particular ones. However, I did find Windmills! I really don't think I have seen any of these since I lived on S. Warren.

It started snowing this morning and it has been pretty much snowing all day. We are supposed to get about six inches and a little north of here they are supposed to get 6-12 inches. We had tickets to go see Josh dance tonight but that didn't happen. Our cars are pretty much frozen in place out there, it is still snowing and there have been no plows out into our part of the world. So we got tickets for next Friday instead.

It is always fun to take Sylvia out for the first snowfall of the season. She knows she just used the ladies' room out here a few hours ago but she can't find it now.