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                                                             Poinsetta & Holly

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A little more than a week till Christmas day. I hope all of you are ready for the big day! Had your booster? Have Rapid Tests in your cupboard? We don't have any rapid tests and don't know where to even get one, I guess a drug store! We wouldn't even have to wonder about getting any IF everyone had gotten their vaccine and boosters. I truly believe we would be done with Covid if everyone had gotten shots when it first came out. 

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Today is my dear husband's 86th birthday and I have a peach pie make for him and will fix his favorite Orange Chicken and Basmati Rice for dinner. He has had several calls from friends. He had to argue with one gal because she hasn't been vaccinated and is griping because she can't find a job! Because she hasn't been vaccinated! She said she would die if she got one, my husband said, "No, you will die if you don't." I wonder how much influence he will have. People are so hard headed about all the misinformation they have received, I think they honestly believe that. If that is the case, they should watch different television stations and get new friends! I know...I know I shouldn't be preaching but I am hoping we can spend our last years not having to wear masks and being able to see great grandkids and give them hugs. But it doesn't look like that is going to be the way it is.

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We are just having our kids here for Christmas day. I managed to get enough chicken wings to make our families favorite! Last year I could only find 1 small bag, so I shopped earlier this year. They have to cook for 2 hours and be turned every 30 min. But they are soooo good. We don't have dinner anymore, just snacks and play Uno! So much easier than the days when the grandkids were all small.

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I have been getting a lot of emails and comments regarding dark and light Home/New Page. I have NO control over that. I wish I did because I like to keep mine dark. The older you get the light is too hard on your eyes. I did download an extension, Dark Background and Light Text extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text You can give it a try if you like. 

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I feel so badly for all the people that have lost their home because of hurricanes, floods, etc. It is so sad to see people looking for photos, etc. around a pile of rubble. And at Christmas time makes it even worse.

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I would like to wish one and all a very Happy Holiday season, whatever it is you celebrate. Merry Christmas and please keep safe and well.

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                                                              BOY ON SLED

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 December is really moving fast. We had a bit of snow Saturday and woke up this morning to a winter wonderland! I took this photo out of our dining room window!

 I doubt if it stays around long but kind of pretty for a day! That's all the longer I want it to stay around, though.

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I hope all of you in the US enjoyed your Thanksgiving. We had a very nice family dinner. And the great part of this year's celebration was the guys decided to do the dishes! That was fantastic! And we got to enjoy leftovers most of the next week. 

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I can't believe what a difference my back surgery made. I have been able to do sit ups again. I hadn't been able to do even 1 for over a year so when I tried the other night I was very careful and expected pain immediately! Didn't happen! So I did 5 and will start 1 more each time. I am  going to start walking the road again soon but only when it isn't raining, windy, snowing or icy! I think I have learned my lessons on that front!

 

I wish I could submit my updates faster but I am only allowed to submit 3 at a time. It is going to take me forever. I haven't even gotten through my Autumn designs and to me winter is here.

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I was so hoping Congress would vote to let the states that have already approved to stay on Daylight Savings Time actually do it, but they didn't. I am hoping this is the last time we have to change clocks. We still have a lot of clocks that don't automatically change. And turning them back takes longer. Our vehicles are all older, too so they have to be changed. 

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 I am also hoping that more people  will get vaccinated, now that we have the Omicron here. I have figured that at my husband and my ages, we will probably be wearing masks for the rest of our lives. We have gotten our boosters but we still double mask when we go out. Which is rare. Only Dr. appointments and every other week to the grocery store. 

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 I have made family calendars for years with all our birthdays, etc. on. The program I use is Broderbund Printshop...very old program. When I went to install it in my old, old laptop it said it wouldn't work with Windows 10...but I didn't give up and managed to get it to work! So I have to keep that laptop updated just so I can use that program. And it won't update to Windows 11.

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Has anyone updated to Windows 11? I only have 1 computer that will work with it but I am going to wait a bit. I am expecting my desktop to quit one of these days. My grandson (IT guy at WWU) built it about 12 years ago. He has had to replace a few components in it, put a SSD in several years ago but he says there is too much to update it for 11 so it looks like Grandma is gonna have to break down and purchase a new one and I really don't want to, so will put it off until this one won't work anymore. I have my old Quicken program, my old Photoshop Elements, etc. all set up like I like and I am gonna hang in with this one until it won't work! So keep your fingers crossed for my old desktop! Please!

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 Going to get back to work, make a few designs, and submit a few more. Have a wonderful week! Stay safe and don't spend too much money on Christmas!

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