My all time favorite retro singer with one of my favorite songs. Takes me back to when a childhood friend and I would sing this on her fireplace steps. Of course, fully animated.

Milwaukee Holiday Show 2021 | Firefly Drone Shows
 

WAY COOL!

Did you get to see this live in person?

Spreading Some Christmas Cheer
 

Drone Christmas Cheer
 

No, I did not. I would have loved to though!

Here's another video from the same content creator....

https://www.tiktok.com/@firefly_dron...from_webapp=v1

Hope you got to cuddle your sweetheart, fill your belly, and play with yer dog today Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. I sure did, and I am feeling very blessed.

I'm not quite there yet. I considered wearing a Christmas sweater to lunch today, but no, I went for basic black. I'll get there soon, I can feel it coming.

Oh Good Lord, Santa and my Daddy's red Ford tractor. I had no idea that's where he got that thing!

My dad used to let me "drive" it across the field while sitting in his lap when I was about 4 or 5.

Remember GE Lighted Ice Christmas Tree light bulbs? This is a string of actual working Lighted Ice that I still have in my possession:


My dad loved these lights. He used to say he wanted a whole tree of only the green Lighted Ice, but he never collected quite enough. We always had mixed colors on the tree - but there was a heavy representation of green.

I remember the year they stopped making these bulbs. My dad found out about it, and he also found out that Chichester's Pharmacy in Macon, Georgia had a remaining supply. He picked me up one day after school - a rainy, cold day, typical for December in Georgia at that time - I was about 8 years old. We went to Chichester's together and bought every single remaining bulb they had. It was probably 50 bulbs or so. Then we went home and switched out as many "flame" shaped bulbs as we could for the Lighted Ice.

When I got older, and the bulbs had been dying out a handful at a time every Christmas, I found some more for him on ebay. I could not find enough green ones to give him the green-lit tree he always wanted, but I did restore it to its former glory.

Now I use the fire-safe LED lights on my tree. But I do keep this one strand of Lighted Ice to remember him by.

Happy Holidays
 

Merry Christmas!
 

I enjoy wrapping presents. My mom taught me how when I was little. At Christmas, the first step was always putting holiday music on the cabinet stereo. When I was very little, I was in charge of tearing pieces of tape off the tape dispenser and sticking them on the edge of the dining table where we worked. When the edge of the table got full, I closely watched my mom as she folded the colorful paper around the presents, carefully measuring and creasing corners. I also watched as she made different kinds of bows from straight ribbon, cutting and tying the swirls into neat decorations. Pretty soon I was wrapping gifts on my own, with my mom in charge of the ribbons; and after some practice, I too could tame the unruly ribbon into beautiful bows.

As I said, I enjoy wrapping presents. I imagine that each person who opens a gift will appreciate its beauty (most of them, anyway) and feel special at receiving such a package. Some few of them will even note the effort that went into wrapping it. I'm not delusional; I know some people won't even notice and will just rip the paper off, especially little kids. Truth to tell, a lot of those people get gift bags instead of a package that has been personalized by my careful ministrations. And that's okay with me; I enjoy giving gifts even more than I enjoy wrapping them.

These days, my hands and my mind don't let me spend a hour or more on each present. I even sometimes resort to (gasp!) mechanically made bows. Fewer people are getting specially wrapped gifts from me and more are getting the aforementioned gift bags. I still do some presents myself, though. I also miss the days of the department store ladies who wrapped presents. I would look at the pre-wrapped sample boxes on the back wall of the customer service department, imagining whether I could replicate some of the designs myself. On Very, Very Special Occasions I would sometimes spring for one of the ladies to wrap a gift. They had boxes of supplies and knew the tricks for adding silk flowers or little animals on a spring to the gift, making it extra special. One of those Special Occasions was usually Mother's Day; I was too young to realize that she probably would have preferred it to be wrapped by me.

She always oohed and ahhed over wrapped presents from me, even in later years when they came in one of those gift bags because her hands couldn't unwrap the taped presents easily. These are some of the best memories I have of my mom. They begin when I was so young that my sister hadn't even been born yet. The love of the time and effort to make gifts extra special was something my mom and I shared my whole life, until she passed away. Now I still wrap packages for special people in my life; and I hope that the care that I put into every one finds it's way into the recipient's heart. And if not, so what, eh? It's the thought . . . well, you know.

HAUSER - Carol of the Bells