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Dusty gets in your eyes.

Since I have hazel eyes, I watched with interest. And took notes. :rolleyes:

ROBERT JOHN

"Sad Eyes"

(Robert John Pedrick)

Looks like it's over, you knew I couldn't stay

She's comin' home today

We had a good thing, I'll miss your sweet love

Why must you look at me that way

It's over



Sad eyes, turn the other way

I don't wanna see you cry

Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day

When we would have to say 'goodbye'



Try to remember the magic that we shared

In time your broken heart will mend

I never used you, you knew I really cared

I hate to see it have to end

But it's over



Sad eyes, turn the other way

I don't wanna see you cry

Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day

When we would have to say 'goodbye'



[Instrumental Interlude]



Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day

When we would have to say 'goodbye'

Sad eyes, turn the other way (turn the other way)

I don't wanna see you cry (cry, cry, cry)

Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day (he-e-e-ey)

When we would have to say 'goodbye'

Sad eyes

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Do I hear a harmonica?

Enough, for now, about our eyes and what they see.

Now, what do we hear?

I was in the fifth grade. For our Christmas assembly, our Music teacher had our class sing this wonderful unusual Christmas song. With the musical instruments, all of us in harmony, and the fun.........this was an unforgettable experience.

"From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens -

the garden outdoors,

the garden of pots and bowls in the house,

and the garden of the mind's eye."

- Katherine S. White

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An modern American Christmas Carol:

Recipe for Christmas All Year Long



Take a heap of child-like wonder

That opens up our eyes

To the unexpected gifts in life—

Each day a sweet surprise.



Mix in fond appreciation

For the people whom we know;

Like festive Christmas candles,

Each one has a special glow.



Add some giggles and some laughter,

A dash of Christmas food,

(Amazing how a piece of pie

Improves our attitude!)



Stir it all with human kindness;

Wrap it up in love and peace,

Decorate with optimism, and

Our joy will never cease.



If we use this healthy recipe,

We know we will remember

To be in the Christmas spirit,

Even when it's not December.



By Joanna Fuchs

YouTube - Mary`s Boy Child (Harry Belafonte)

Probably the nicest Christmas song - modern day carol, for many decades.

Lovely, Gill.

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!'"

~ Ray Stannard Baker, pseud. David Grayson (1870-1946), American author, journalist.



Same here.

I think I must do that really, as I get little pressies for people for no special occasion. Just because I felt like doing it ! I think they are much nicer when they arrive out-of-the-blue and totally unexpected. It's good to see somebody's face light up and a genuine smile spread across their face with the surprise of it all ! :-6 :yh_bigsmi

"It's good to see somebody's face light up and a genuine smile spread across their face with the surprise of it all !"

That's exactly why I enjoy giving gifts....so I like to put a little thought into my gift-giving. "What would this person really like?" I don't get to see some family members responses to the gifts I have to send in the mail because they live far away from me. So I do miss out.

I've been going through my photo albums, and found some Christmas pictures of my children from years ago. I scanned and saved them and I'll post them here. I'll bet many of you have photos like these of your children.

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Come....take a ride with me:

Not a Christmas Carol, but an Everyday Carol. I do like this song.

Christmas in Georgia? :wah:

Christmas Fun At The Georgia Aquarium - WSBTV Upload and Share Video

Today, the day after Christmas, it is snowing outside. Big flakes are falling in the wind now. I don't know if it will stick to the ground, but I do like to watch them fall. Winter, alas, is here.

This was a special Christmas for me. I got to spend some time with my daughter and younger son. They had been living in North Dakota for several years and recently moved back to Georgia. My daughter-in-law posted a Christmas photo of my grandchildren on FB. Spending Christmas with Hubby is always special and sweet. :-4

The decorations, the music, the gifts are only a background to what Christmas is all about. It's about the people you love, and love you back.

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the gifts are only a background to what Christmas is all about. It's about the people you love, and love you back
So true. That's why my Christmas was wonderful. My heart breaks for families who don't get along or who can't be together.

along-for-the-ride;1348194 wrote: Today, the day after Christmas, it is snowing outside. Big flakes are falling in the wind now. I don't know if it will stick to the ground, but I do like to watch them fall. Winter, alas, is here.

This was a special Christmas for me. I got to spend some time with my daughter and younger son. They had been living in North Dakota for several years and recently moved back to Georgia. My daughter-in-law posted a Christmas photo of my grandchildren on FB. Spending Christmas with Hubby is always special and sweet. :-4

The decorations, the music, the gifts are only a background to what Christmas is all about. It's about the people you love, and love you back.


Oh, what a wonderful picture of your family Diana....Just wonderful:-4

Happy New Year 2011, everyone! May our road trip together be enjoyable and picturesque and we never have the urge to ask, "Are we there yet?"

Anais Nin

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

Today...............something a little different:

"From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin.

No lady alive can show such a skin.

I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather,

But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.

Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear,

Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.

Though so much of Heaven appears in my make,

The foulest impressions I easily take.

My parent and I produce one another,

The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother."

- James Parton, A Riddle - On Snow

Ahso's "Casual Converstions" thread made me think of this song:





We do need to slow down and take the time to make connections with other folks. We do have alot to share with each other.

Have you seen this story?

along-for-the-ride;1349890 wrote:



Have you seen this story?


I love your posts but I couldn't get this one to come up. Also, there is still a problem getting your last page to come up--still the same problem as before.

ZAP;1349905 wrote: I love your posts but I couldn't get this one to come up. Also, there is still a problem getting your last page to come up--still the same problem as before.


Evidently, this is still a problem. We must let the powers-that-be know. We must demand satisfaction. Immediately. Perhaps FG can help us. He's the man!



I do get kinda lonesome here on AFTR's Daily Commute thread when my buddies can't come to visit.

"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928

Just something to warm us up a little:

This is a test. I took the advice to make a change to my general settings here at FG so that I could upload some more photos and pictures again. It seems to have worked.

Thank you, FG. You ARE the man!

Below are two photos I took earlier of some trees in our backyard...trees laden with ice. The other picture is an unusual depiction of winter. Here, in SE Georgia, we still have seen alot of falling leaves dancing in the wind.

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Yippee! It works when I click on the latest post. Thank you, whoever the fixer was.

along-for-the-ride;1350666 wrote: This is a test. I took the advice to make a change to my general settings here at FG so that I could upload some more photos and pictures again. It seems to have worked.

Thank you, FG. You ARE the man!

Below are two photos I took earlier of some trees in our backyard...trees laden with ice. The other picture is an unusual depiction of winter. Here, in SE Georgia, we still have seen alot of falling leaves dancing in the wind.


Hi Diana,

Lovely trees, but what are those white items on the 3rd tree that look like 'Christmas" ornaments? Are they birds??

Kathy Ellen;1350715 wrote: Hi Diana,

Lovely trees, but what are those white items on the 3rd tree that look like 'Christmas" ornaments? Are they birds??


Glad you asked.........They are gourds that Hubby hangs up high in a post. They are for the martins when they come our way, sometimes as early as February. Hubby puts a hole in them and empties them so the birds can nest inside.

Today...........a little Billie Holiday

along-for-the-ride;1350760 wrote: Glad you asked.........They are gourds that Hubby hangs up high in a post. They are for the martins when they come our way, sometimes as early as February. Hubby puts a hole in them and empties them so the birds can nest inside.


Hey Diana,

Once again I can't access the last post in your thread unless I scroll every 10 pages...grrrrrr....

Love the gourds...wonderful idea. How does hubby reach up so high...is there a pully of some sort?

Is this the same picture I saw yesterday?? Looks different. Thought I saw the gourds on the tree branches...oh well...maybe I was still sleepy:wah:

ZAP;1350687 wrote: Yippee! It works when I click on the latest post. Thank you, whoever the fixer was.


Now it's not working again!!

Today, let's watch and listen to some martins:

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Kathy, Hubby has to pull down the pole, hang the gourds on it, then push the pole back up into the bottom hole. I've helped him do this.

Today....Aretha and a prayer..........

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt