http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/25/the-christmas-morning-report Comments On: The Christmas morning report by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Nanc]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:20:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:50:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:41:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:52:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:27:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Nanc]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:50:33 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:44:29 -0600 Arkansas Times I'm just praying the power stays on...
Posted by Nanc]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:34:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Razorblade]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:32:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
PS: cornish hens and other goodness tonite for me thanks to the better half.
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:56:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
Blizzard conditions here. Snow so heavy and falling so hard we can no longer see past the rails on the upper deck. Nothing. Total whiteout conditions. Hubby just went out and measured and we have 3+ inches, getting closer to 4. We are about 1000 feet up so we are getting a bit more than my friends downtown. Ice hanging from the roofs of all buildings up here. Oddly enough, the tops of our little solar landscaping lights are peeking out through the snow, lightng the plants, statues and fountains in a very errie fashion. Almost creepy!

I would like to walk up to the pond to check the conditions there and at the cabin, but it is snowing too hard right now to make the treck. Maybe later....
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:17:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
Atlas, I must tell you that if my mom had had her way I could now claim to have eaten camel meat. When I was a kid (10-13) and my family lived in Libya, we would frequent the downtown market in Tripoli which was a very exciting place. Lots of people haggling over the merchandise, exotic music, pungent smells and things the likes of which we'd never seen. There were also lots of open-air meat markets doing business under clouds of flies that swarmed around the severed camel heads hanging above the tables. My mom, being the most adventurous of my parents, was all for trying it only to be met with squeals of disgust from me and my sisters and a definite NO from my dad.
I can, however, claim to have ridden several camels.
Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:13:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by scrapper72]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:08:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:22:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
May I highly recommend the Air Hog II Helicopter--fun for all ages as it bounces, whirls, spins, and flies from floor to ceiling. I typically despise these things but have not yet once fussed at my son, even though the helicopter has already been in the tree, on top of the ceiling fan, and nearly knocked over the heirloom decanter. It's just too fun. Ask me again how I feel about it after the blizzard sets in and we've been cooped up together for days.
Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:15:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:09:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:55:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:09:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
Our family dressing makers have been 6 feet under for over a decade. Ma did the best she could but cooking was never something Ma cared about or did well. When she got sick in 2004 I was forced to step up to bat. In the years since my dressing has improved in baby steps. 3 years ago a friend sent a dressing recipe from Southern Living and finally I was on the right path. Each holiday since I've tweaked the dressing a little closer to perfection. And today I will pull from the old oven 2 pans of damn good dressing. <--------bowing

Our 1997 Christmas puppy is enjoying his 15th Christmas under our roof. He's now totally deaf, mostly blind and is senile, barking at things that aren't there, making the same circular path dozens of times per day, leaving many carpet gifts (see why we don't invite you over.) He has been our most loving dog, but without a close 2nd, the worst dog I've ever known. Think of your worst dog habit-nightmare and we've lived it with this dog....repeatedly. Though he limps and stumbles and falls over out of the blue, his will to be evil is 100% intact.

Probably 14 and a half years ago I was forced to build a Cat Yes-Dog No half door for the kitchen. Christmas dog to this day would love to climb up on our kitchen table and mark it as HIS with a big stream of urine. It was build the door or kill the dog. Every second of his life has been devoted to catching the kitchen half door unlocked. He checks it 50 times each day. He used to have the courtesy to hold up checking the door until I had walked out of the dining room. I'd hear his paw on the cat hole rattling the door to see if it was unlocked. Now that he's blind and deaf he'll check it with me standing next to him. The nerve!

Though he can barely walk, if I don't fasten the gate to the stairs, he'll still manage to pull his old body up 2 flights of stairs just to leave a big steaming pile of you-know-what in one of the upstairs bathrooms, marking his various spots all the way back down the stairs. He will eat all the cat food if he gets in the kitchen and he can smell chocolate a half a block away. He's diminished, but NOT DEAD! Obviously too horrible for Doggy Heaven and even Doggy Hell.

Oh how I wish I could send each of you a little piece of him today! But the death watch will continue into 2013....he and Dick Cheney refuse to die probably because they're so so so evil. Ahhh.....I can smell the dressing! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Nikaniki......wait, that's supposed to be Hanukkah, silly spellchecker, Happy 25th of the month! There...that should cover everyone....
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:56:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
And NVR, if we weren't two hours apart I would love to bring you some cinimmon rolls. But I suspect you have many fine treats of your own on this snowy Christmas day.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:46:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
B: Who eats camels anyway? (though I do have a camel hide briefcase)

C: Joyous Holidays, Peace and Prosperity to all of you!
Posted by Atlas999]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:22:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:05:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:01:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Vanessa]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:06:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
I have a first cousin who lives in San Fran. They moved from Arkansas when she was a child during WW II to the bay area seeking a better life than what existed in these western Arkansas mountains. They stayed. My parents didn't stay----they never could get the mountains and streams out of their system, thank goodness! Jeanette called last night to let me know about the rain, etc. I'm glad she's there and I'm here.
Posted by Cato]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:01:55 -0600 Arkansas Times