The Bag Lady

It looks auspicious

Hope it tastes delicious

A treat for the family

They laud it readily

For it’s Christmas week

Time for a treat

While a choir of the bells

Is really neat.

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My favorite Christmas song is: (this is a new version of my favorite)

https://fivedotoh.com/2020/12/15/fowc-with-fandango-auspicious/#like-51075

https://mmastorytime.com/2020/12/15/mma-storytimes-word-of-the-day-week/

https://sandmanjazz.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/25-day-christmas-challenge-day-15/#like-14327

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/your-daily-word-prompt-family-ydwordprompt-December-15-2020/

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/laud/

I bought a bag of these for grandkids’ stockings this year, first time in 40+ years. I was feeling nostalgic for our Colorado home. Schools used to give a field trip to the Jolly Rancher factory in Denver when my kids were small.

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Tourmaline .’s 2020 Countdown to Christmas

Hat off the peg

Coat zipped up tight

Ice skates ready

For a chilly night.

The sunset lights the pond

With a warm glow

And we glide on the ice

Through patches of snow.

Holding hands through a knitted glove

Christmas magic–think we’re falling in love.

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https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/rdp-monday-peg/

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Wrote about it today in the Monday Peeve

How some people act doesn’t matter to me

It’s all gibberish in this hurting world

A peeping tom watch being unfurled

I don’t need to know a star’s private life

I don’t care how they spend their time

This year has shown how selfish we can be

All for ourselves and what we need

It’s time for a change, long overdue

Looking inside ourselves for what we know to be true.

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http://fivedotoh.com/2020/12/14/fowc-with-fandango-gibberish/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=39a5faf02c3da4c31532cc4fea8d9583&postid=51073&like=1&source=sub_email

https://fivedotoh.com/2020/12/14/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-96/#like-51644

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Here’s MY “I message 2020″:

😏😒😕

I feel “dissed”!

Disappointed

Disgusted

Disillusioned

Disenfranchised

And while I’m ranting, since when is news not new anymore? What’s new that I need to know about, important enough to be a headline and blasted into my world for days or weeks?

News such as Trump blah blah blah and if I never see his face again I would thank the gods! Peoples’ unbelievably high incomes, sports figure’s troubles, people who decide to back something or someone, who divorced, sexual orientation, has covid, who is fighting, who married, who is cheating, who is losing or gaining weight, who has a new pet? Who cares? Is there any real news fit to print anymore?

The topper today was a mother who’s 6 year old racked up thousands of dollars on a video game. I mean really. . .this goes into the “I’m not wearing a mask and you can’t make me” category. It’s your own stupidity and we can’t change you, so why should we read about it? Headline worthy?

Okay I guess I’m done, for now. I read a lot of different news outlets, well except for Fox and I am tired of what is considered news. Walter Kronkite is rolling over in his grave.

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https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/the-monday-peeve-66/

I watched “Antwone Fisher” on a free preview of Epic this weekend. Denzel is always outstanding in my book, but Derek Luke – what can I say?😊 You might recognize him from “Friday Night Lights” made in 2004. Another movie I recommend. A warning, child abuse occurs in this movie, be prepared. It is a story of recovery.

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https://rugby843.blog

Snow outside, the cold gives me a chill

No family here, but I wish them no ill

Everyone’s locked in their own homes

Looking out windows at snow covered gnomes

A blanket, a movie, or a book’s all we need

We hardly miss the holiday speed

A snap, a text, a video call

Keeping separate-together is all

This family can wait till times are better

And all the illness and sadness no longer fetters.

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https://sandmanjazz.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/25-day-christmas-challenge-day-13/#like-14321

“Before five in the morning is when the big mouth bass swim in this stream.” The instructor presented his well trimmed lean arm over his shoulder and expertly fired out the fly on the end of the line.

After what seemed a curiously long time to his students, he sheepishly retrieved the end of his line from the tree behind him.

Image: Outdoor Life

https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/wordle-486/

He was new at this, hoping to be the latest to discover the rewards of being a great Shakespearean actor.

He was so nervous before entering stage left, he energetically stumbled on his sword. Sad to say, in his hurry to get dressed in his costume, he forgot the inner protection pads of his fake armor.

Conclusion: he is forever known as the actor who “laid down on the job”.

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https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/your-daily-word-prompt-energetic-ydwordprompt-december-13-2020/

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/rdp-sunday-stage/

Protection – Word of the Day Challenge

FOWC with Fandango — Discover

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No matter the chaos

No matter the strife

No matter the changes

We’ve had in our life

Christmas is coming on 12/25

Just as sure as we are alive.

People will sing, we’ll dance and and we’ll pray

People will celebrate in their own way

People are strong, they’ll find that the day

Passes, even when loved ones are far away.

And as the new year beckons a change

With the old one exceptionally strange

We will survive, maybe rearrange

As it comes and hopeful greetings exchanged.

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/sunday-writing-prompt-13th-december-confident-it-was-a-sure-thing/#like-21033