Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Sunday, December 11. 2022

Christmas Cards


Photo is an old pic of the BD homestead. 


We feel that these cards are important links with people in our lives today, and with people who have been important in our past. The photos are fun to look at. Many send email cards. I do not like that very much.


We lapsed in this tradtion the last year or two, for various reasons. Shame on us. I have the task of updating. Deaths and births, and new pals that matter to me or the Mrs.  The deaths and lost people are the worst parts of it. Going through the old cards, I found the last card from Mrs' uncle, the Archbishop, who died since. Great guy. Some have retired. Why?


Another challenge is keeping track of all the people who have moved - often to Florida but some to Maine or California or Cape Cod. I prefer to stay put, where my life has been built. 


I wish I could put all of these beloved people in one great room, for a day or more.




Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:02 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I appreciate the effort put into them. We have a Hall of Fame for Christmas cards. If you send one with a nice picture it gets put in with the Christmas decorations and hung again every Christmas. We have some that are many years old. I'm prejudice to religious motifs.
#1 jack walter on 2022-12-11 19:57 (Reply)
It's so old-fashioned that it's become a little anachronistic - but my wife puts them out every single year, handwritten. We still get quite a few too, so we're not alone in the tradition.
#2 Aggie on 2022-12-11 22:57 (Reply)
My kids once asked me about the high number of cards I regularly send out at Christmas.
I told them that it's important to keep in contact with distant family and friends. It allows me, relatively cheaply, to update my list of addresses, and to make sure that I stay current in theirs, too. In times of crisis (as we are getting to be, nearly 24/7), knowing how to connect with people is vital. Not just "mostly peaceful protests", but also natural disasters, family deaths and other crises, and just the fallback of knowing how to reach someone in another part of the country.
This year, inexpensive cards were nearly impossible to find. Rather than give up the tradition, I made my own out of some cardstock I had available (from when I used to teach school). One 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of cardstock make 3 long cards, printed in landscape.
I put it up on Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/378232068718303387/
#3 Linda Fox (Link) on 2022-12-16 07:54 (Reply)

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