One more week to prepare for Christmas … St. Nick comes calling Friday night…
Worked for several years with a friend who never went shopping til about dark-thirty on Christmas Eve … Good for some, not for me…
Checking NFL scores from the past few days … COVID issue has forced some teams to play tonight and Tuesday night …
Yesterday scores…
Bills 31 – Panthers 14
Steelers 19 – Titans 13
5 p.m. today … Raiders vs Browns
8:15 today … Vikings vs Bears
2 games scheduled for Tuesday
7 p.m. … Washington vs Eagles
7 p.m. … Seahawks vs Rams
From the ‘Did You Know?’ department … Tuesday, (tomorrow) December 21, 2021 is the shortest day of the year … daylight … 9 hours-26 minutes…
So how is Christmas shopping going? … completed? just beginning? somewhere in between?
Changing the subject: When was the last time you heard someone ask for a book of penny matches? A container of Prince Albert tobacco? A plug of Black Maria chewing tobacco? A pack of Chesterfield cigarettes? May no longer be made … Common items not that long ago … I sold a few while employed at Hinson Super Market in Bladenboro in the late 50s and early 60s. I was never man enough to use them … I tried…
So do I need to wear a mask or not? Had 2 shots and the booster…
Rainfall yesterday totaled about 3/4ths of an inch at the local airport … No rain today … Sunny with a high near 50 … Northeast wind with gusts as high as 23 mph. Increasing clouds tonight, with a low around 34. Tuesday, rain likely (60% chance) with a high near 50.
“Sometime me think, ‘What is friend?’ and then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.” Cookie Monster
“Someday is not a day of the week.” Denise Brennan-Nelson
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” Beverly Sills
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