It’s that time of year again when we make all kinds of resolutions that we know we just won’t keep.
The ball will drop in New York just like all years in the remembered past and the day will dawn, new, but in some ways old as well.
Happenings in the Star City
As the song says, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” There’s a bustle of shopping, familiar carols playing everywhere, snow falling on twinkling holiday lights; at home, there are aromas of timely treats from the kitchen, a tangle of wrappings and gifts under the tree. Neighbors drop by, relatives call, friends visit.
Earlier this month, I took the U.S. Navy up on their invitation to spend a weekend on board the carrier USS George Washington as part of my ongoing work as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The first thing I noticed when I pulled up at the old McBride farm in Littleton recently was a Soil and Water Conservation farmer recognition sign, much faded and rusted, but hanging as an ode to the history of the farm.
Well here it is the first trail report of the season (as of Dec. 8). If this is what the season will be like, we are in for one awesome winter.
It’s getting down to crunch time for Christmas shopping with only a few days remaining for final selections. In the big cities where there are multitudes of stores, malls and specialty shops that stay open late, even for the last-minute Christmas Eve shoppers, eleventh-hour purchases are no problem.
It’s shopping season. Time to put on the smiles, break out the work gloves and start hauling the stuff into the back seat of a way too small car.
Well, The first, second and third snowstorms are in the books. I realize that not everybody got the same numbers of “snow” storms.
My wife and I have a soft spot for holiday flicks and it is something the children have been known to exploit this fact on more than one occasion to squeeze out an extra half-hour before bedtime. I admit it. I’m a sucker for holiday movies and shows, particularly those involving the stop-motion animation technique that was popular by Rankin and Bass.
nce in a while, a weather record occurs which makes you really sit up and take notice. And sure enough, we just had one.
