The Creative
Spirit Newsletter
December 15, 2001
There
is still no snow in this part of Eastern Canada! But Marit
Saettem has come to the rescue with some outstanding snow photos from Telemark,
Norway that were taken in 1992/3. Thank you soooo much Marit!! I've
made the first one into a snow applet.
The
countdown to Christmas is now....10 days! Because its so close I'm sure we
all know how many days are left, but if you would like to know how many
(shopping!) hours there are, you can keep track HERE.
We have a lot of variety this week... from funny Christmas anecdotes, to some
lovely pictures... and everything in between. For those of you who will be
spending Christmas in Florida--or some other warm climate--we have a cute poem
for the occasion. Wynne has also created some lovely Christmas pages for you to
view and you can see them HERE.
Christmas
Blessings
from Cheyenne
Telemark,
Norway
T'was a
Florida Christmas!
T'was the
night before Christmas and all through the town,
no noses were frozen, no snow fluttered down,
no children in flannels were tucked into bed,
they all wore shorty pajamas instead.
To find
wreaths of holly, t'was not very hard,
for holly trees grew in every back yard.
In front of the houses, Dads and Moms were
adorning the bushes and coconut palms.
The
sleeping kiddies were dreaming in glee,
hoping to find water skis under the tree.
They all knew that Santa was well on his way,
in a Mercedes-Benz, instead of a sleigh.
And soon
he arrived and started to work,
he hadn't a second to linger or shirk.
He whizzed up the highways and zoomed up the road,
in a S-L 300, delivering his loads.
The
tropical moon gave the city a glow,
and lighted the way for old Santa below.
As he jumped from the auto he gave a wee chuckle,
he was dressed in Bermudas with an Ivy league buckle,
There
weren't any chimneys, but that caused no gloom,
for Santa came in through the Florida room.
He stopped at each house....stayed only a minute,
emptying his sack of stuff that was in it.
Before he
departed, he treated himself
to a glass of papaya juice upon the shelf.
He turned with a jerk and bounced to the car,
remembering he still had to go very far.
He shifted
the gears and stepped on the gas
and up Highway 436 he went like a flash.
And I heard him exclaim as he went on his way,
"MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL, I WISH I COULD STAY
~ author
unknown ~
Telemark,
Norway--from Marit
From
Michael Stadler, we have these two
Christmas pictures:
"I
took these a few weeks ago at the 19th century Schneider House here in
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. They do re-enactments there, from these
years long ago."
Minstrels
Telemark,
Norway-- from Marit
Quote of
the Day
"I
have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous,
pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and
so I say, God bless Christmas!"
~
Charles
Dickens ~
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