TODAY THE FEATURED IS A THREE-SOME–DAD, SON AND DARLING LITTLE GIRL
doing house cleaning today—laundry room
Family room
Breakfast room
and kitchen
That’s it for today–tomorrow is more cleaning….do it a bit at a time is my motto.
The 12 Days of Christmas is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Although first published in England in 1780, the song may be French in origin.
http://beforeitsnews.com/books/2015/12/12-days-of-christmas-christian-fact-or-fiction-2498452.html
Another Great Christmas idea from Publix:
One of those recipes that take care of the unexpected guest, or the person you forgot:
HOME MADE PEANUT BTTER CUPS
Pour 1 tbsp. melted chocolate into each of 12 paper lined muffin tin wells.
Shake to flatten
Then top with 1 tbsp. creamy peanut butter
Top with chocolate to cover the peanut butter
Refrigerate to harden
Stack in gift bags.
According to Forbes, Paul McCartney receives $400,000 in royalties every year for Wonderful Christmastime. This is a massive achievement, since even big artists only make approximately $10,000 per year on their biggest song.
http://www.thelistlove.com/10-crazy-christmas-song-facts-you-wont-have-heard/#
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The Christmas Encyclopaedia states that the choice of 25th December as Jesus’ birthday had no biblical precedent, but was a pragmatic adaptation from Roman festivals held at the end of every year, about the time of winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/facts-fiction-christmas-1/
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Kwanzaa is a religious holiday.Kwanzaa is a not a religious, but rather a cultural holiday. Christians, Muslims, African traditional faiths, and secular people celebrate Kwanzaa.
http://kwanzaaguide.com/history-of-kwanzaa/kwanzaa-fact-or-fiction/
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Leonardo Da Vinci Artini Engraving Self Portrait Picture… (262204202950) $14.82
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Still roaming about in the muddle of my mind….if I don’t come back tell Jamie (and Thor) not to be too upset you never know when I might stumble back to them….
Pope Benedict XVI has released the final installment in his trilogy on Jesus.
He also says that the Angels did not sing the good news of Jesus’s birth to the shepherds, but rather “said” it to them.
But Christianity has always understood that the speech of angels is actually song, in which all the glory of the great joy that they proclaim becomes tangibly present,” he explained
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/pope.separates.christmas.fact.from.fiction/31103.htm
Looking for a British King? It might be a good idea to try the parking lot. As many of you might have seen Richard III–Shakespeare (you remember him we’re not sure if or what he did but he got credit for a whole lot) featured him as a major hunch back villain in his play (course he was playing it in a city where the queen was the granddaughter of the man who took the throne away and had questionable right to same throne and daughter to the crown’s answer to Blue Beard, Henry VIII )
Richard by the way died in 1485 in battle with Henry Tudor (soon to be Henry VII) and he was buried at Greyfriars Church in Leicester—when the next king (VIII) dissolved the monasteries–a little profitable perk from breaking with the church (as in Catholic—the only game in town) after the church failed to give him a divorce so he could move to number two (outa 6 eventually) wife. The church was destroyed and for years it was rumored that the remains were dug up and flung into a river (the Soar) in 1540. Then in August 2012 527 years after the August in which he was killed an archaeological excavation was led by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services, working in partnership with Leicester City Council sank a hole in a parking lot and in that first digging they found a body that would prove to be Richard III.
and now: The remains of another English king could be lurking underneath a 21st-century car park, archaeologists and historians have said….the possibility that Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, could be lying in similar circumstances in Reading.
Henry I ruled England for 35 years between 1100 and 1135 and is remembered by historians as an “energetic, decisive and occasionally cruel ruler” who allegedly died after eating too many lampreys – a kind of jawless fish. He was interred in a sarcophagus in Reading abbey, which was largely destroyed during the 16th-century dissolution of the monasteries. (again Henry VIII–the man is keeping archeologists busy forever)
oh and the parking lot thing isn’t reserved just for royalty. John Knox, the rather over zealous (my thoughts entirely) Scottish Reformer, is thought to be buried under parking space #23 near St. Giles on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh–seems they paved paradise and put up a parking lot over the church’s ancient cemetery.
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Daniel Ryman’s Book AROMATHERAPY has some interesting uses for plants.
Celery as an aphrodisiac (the recipes includes 4 cups French white wine so maybe it’s not all the celery)
She also recommends:
Geranium (essential oils) for hemmroids
Lemon (pure juice) for eye infections—ouch I bet that stings
Other herb info:
Nutmeg In olden days was carried in the pocket for lumbago and rheumatism
Pepper is carried by Buddhist monks in the Himalayas, they reportedly suck on the peppercorn from time to time to give them strength and alleviate hunger.
One of the all-time classics in National Football League history came on Christmas Day 1971 in Kansas City when the Chiefs hosted the Miami Dolphins at Metropolitan Stadium in the AFC Divisional Playoff….marathon game, which featured missed game-winning kicks in the first overtime, finally ended when the Dolphins’ kicker Garo Yepremian booted the ball through the uprights midway through the sixth quarter to give Miami a 27-24 win. The postseason matchup with 22 minutes, 40 seconds of sudden death play remains the longest game ever played in NFL history.
FLORIDA HAS SOME INTERESTING PLACES:
LIKE KEY WEST
who’s cemetery has been call one of the most fascinating in the country and has some of the more interesting epitaphs like “I told you I was sick” and “At least I know where he’s sleeping tonight.” There’s also statues of the deceased that includes a pair of his shoes that were covered over to save the sculptor a few bucks. One grave has a vintage pedal-powered airplane and a family plot that includes tombs (and stones) for the family pets one of which was a deer.
http://www.keywesttravelguide.com/key-west-cemetery-map-self-guided-tour/
GAINESVILLE
WHICH has the DEVIL’S DEN
18 miles south east of town
Where you can cave dive in “one of the most spectacularly, odd and beautiful places in the state. ” Described as something right out of the Abyss. http://www.devilsden.com/
Folklore may have turned Santa Claus into a toy distributor who mans a sleigh led by eight flying reindeer, but he is actually based, loosely, on a real person. Born around the year 270, St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra, a town in what is now Turkey. He earned a reputation as an anonymous gift giver, says MSNBC, by paying the dowries of impoverished girls and handing out treats and coins to children — often leaving them in their shoes, set out at night for that very purpose. Since his death, Nicholas has been canonized as the patron saint of children,
http://theweek.com/articles/479681/history-santa-claus-7-interesting-facts
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Most of pictures today from Sanford, FL http://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/sanford.html
But in early America Christmas wasn’t much like the modern holiday. The holiday was shunned in New England, and elsewhere it had become a bit like the pagan Saturnalia that once occupied its place on the calendar. “‘It was celebrated as a kind of outdoor, alcohol-fueled, rowdy community blowout,” Bowler said. “That’s what it had become in England as well. And there was no particular, magical gift bringer.”
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Other Sources:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-christmas/10-christmas-myths.htm#page=1
AROMATHERAPY by Daniele Ryman
FLORIDA/Lonely Planet
THE DEATH OF KINGS by Clifford Brewer