Archive through December 18, 2003
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Archive through December 18, 2003
Egbok | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 09:43 am     Good Morning TVCHer's! Over a week ago I told you how Egbob goes on a special mission to obtain three huge tumbleweeds from private government property in order to make his annual Tumbleweed Snowman. Well, he went on such mission last night. The following are the Top Secret details....... <insert Mission Impossible music here...> He dressed the part in fatigues, knit cap, grease paint, boots, gloves, nightvision goggles. He belly crawled under the barbedwire fence and using his highpowered binocculars, he located the three prizes. As he ran toward the delightful tumbleweeds, he cowered and ducked and threw himself to the ground as the searchlights nearly caught him in the act. At last!...he reached his destination, gently packed his prizes in a net and bobbed and weaved his way back toward his EgMobile to make his great escape. As he was loading his tumbleweeds, he suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to look and was face to face with a big security guard. Without a blink, Egbob congratulated the sentry on the capture of Saddam! The sentry was elated with the congratulatory greeting and gave Egbob a great big hug. Then the sentry asked Egbob what he was doing...so Egbob told him how he does this every year and it's a tradition for him and the kidlets to create the Tumbleweed Snowman in our front yard for all to come and see. As the sentry was helping Egbob get the prized tumbleweeds secured in the EgMobile, he asked Egbob this question..."How can you tell the difference between a SnowMan and a SnowWoman"? Egbob didn't have any idea and so he asked the sentry to tell him how to tell the difference. The sentry replied, "One has SnowBalls and the other doesn't". ...look for the third installment of the EgSnowman story sometime next week....
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Egbok | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 02:12 pm     <...the part of the story where Egbob is wearing fatigues, etc. and ducks and rolls from the seachlight is fabricated...I just thought it would add a sense of excitement to the adventure...> |
Wargod | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 02:43 pm     ROFLOL, he got caught?????? Go Egbob!!! |
Meme9 | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 03:08 pm     LOL Eggie, I read that earlier today...it did add a sense of excitement!!! Keep practicing Egbob.... Big Brother will be here before we know it.... we might need ya!  |
Lostintheglades | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 03:38 pm     DH and I got married on the 22nd of December 24 years ago this year. We had no tree before and someone gave us an ornament as a wedding gift. Since then we've purchased only one ornament a year to add to our collection using red bows to fill in the gaps. There were a few years it was a pretty sad tree. Then as the kids got older we would add to our one new ornament any ornaments they made for us or that were given to us as gifts. Our tree is truly made up of memories now as each item represents something special so it's always fun to look at them and remember who made it, gave it to us, or what year it was for. |
Herckleperckle | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 03:43 pm     Eggie, so now, next year, he simply walks up, knocks on the door and says, "I'm baaack!"? |
Egbok | Monday, December 15, 2003 - 04:00 pm     Herckleperckle cutie pie, 'splain it to me...I don't understand your question... |
Tess | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 12:28 am     I'm pretty sure she means instead of crawling under the fence seeing as how he and the sentry guy are all buddies now. |
Urgrace | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 11:25 am     Eggie, I love your story. It will always be better than the movie that follows  |
Urgrace | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 11:27 am    
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Pamy | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 06:44 pm     ROTF Eggie!!! |
Grannyg | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 06:58 pm     Eggie, that is so funny!! Waiting for the next Chapter! Of course, there will be pics to follow, won't there? |
Lucy | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 09:05 pm     Hi everyone! Here is my tree!!
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Pamy | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 05:03 am     Lucy, I love your tree! |
Sillycalimomma | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 07:26 am     Oh Lucy I am jelous! My DH talked me out of a real tree this year as we are leaving on Monday to be with his family for the holidays. I did manage to drag out the fake tree in a box, but it jus isn't the same! Looks just like the famous Charlie Brown tree I tell you! Ho hum...at least I can look at your beauty! |
Lucy | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 07:55 am     Thanks Pamy and Silly. Pamy, your decorations are amazing, both inside and out! Silly, nothing wrong with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Happy Holidays! |
Dahli | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 10:18 am     Lost - what a wonderful idea... my sister is getting married on Christmas Eve this year, I may start that tradition for her and her new hubby... |
Marysafan | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 11:08 am     A couple of years ago, I got a call from our local flower shop to ask if I would be in the office over the noon hour. I told them I would be and to my surprise they arrived with the cutest wreath. It has a big red plaid bow, and a red cardinal sitting on a birdhouse among other decorations. I looked at the card and all it said was "Thank you for helping me when I really needed someone to help." I wasn't sure who could have sent it, as the person I had been helping quite a lot that year had recently committed suicide. But that wreath really helped to bring me out of my mourning and take a good look at all the other people around me, who needed me. A couple of weeks ago, my youngest daughter had a chance to meet up with a couple of her classmates from high school. The girls hadn't seen each other in 9 years. One of the girls asked about me and told my daughter that she has thought of me often through the years. She said, "If it hadn't been for your mom, I never would have graduated." We took her in the last three months of her high school days. Her home situation was frightful, and she needed a place to stay and we had an empty guest room. She was already 18 so there were no legal complications, and she was already working to support herself. She was the nicest girl caught in the worst of circumstances. My daughter asked, "Did you send a wreath a couple of years ago?"...and she said yes. So now I have the wreath hung right above my computer where I can see it often and remember that life presents opportunities, it is up to us to accept them. |
Lucy | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 11:14 am     Mary, That is such a beautiful story, I got the chills reading it! |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 03:38 pm     Lucy, beautiful tree!!! Lost, we have tree full of memorable ornaments, too. Each one has a story. Eggie, LOVE the tumbleweed story!! ROFL!! Mary, that's wonderful. =) |
Kellirippa | Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 07:40 am     I have a question......WHat the heck is a TUMBLEWEED? |
Lostintheglades | Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 08:05 am     Twiggy, my "Memory" tree is now called the "ghetto" tree by DD#2 as only the bottom half of the lights are working now. I told her it just gives it more character and to get used to it. Great Tree Lucy!! Wonderful story Mary...thanks for sharing! |
Lostintheglades | Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 08:35 am     LOL....I don't know how I sometimes forget to scroll up and see what the heck I've missed but I always do. Ms Eggie...I'm dying here, I was laughing so hard DD #1 came in so I showed it to her so she wouldn't think I was nuts. She started laughing and said, "If Dad had tried something like that we'd have been taking Christmas back to store to bail his butt out of jail." |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 08:44 am     kelli, i take it you don't live in the southwest? a tumbleweed is exactly what it sounds like--a big old ball of large beige colored weed/dried plant that tumble across roads and deserts and under my car! they always have them in westerns...i think maybe you can google a tumbleweed to see what one looks like. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 08:49 am     http://www.grahamlyth.com/gallery-monumentvalley/140.htm this should have a pic of a tumbleweed. some get really 'rounded' from rolling in the wind and make good snowmen as eg discovered. |
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