Yesterday’s mail was rather a bonanza of the good and the bad:

I never will hear the end of the accident—there, exactly a month after the fact, was the bill for the rescue squad. Besides a flat fee to take me to the hospital, there was a mileage charge, so many miles at $6.50 per! Oh, well, it gets copied and sent off to the other insurance’s claim office.

My CD came from Amazon: this is “Christmas at the Almanac Music Hall,” produced by the Farmer’s Almanac/Yankee Magazine people. It’s “...eclectic combinations of sleigh bells, chimes, a swinging cornet, a rousing fiddle, and an old upright piano performing familiar Christmas songs and carols...” The featured artist is cornetist Peter Ecklund, who has performed on Prairie Home Companion and in the Ken Burns’ series The Civil War, Baseball, and The American West with the Howard Fishman Quartet. The album description on Amazon says “Rousing retro-acoustic swing renditions of Christmas classics - as if you were at a Christmas party at a VFW Hall in the 30's or 40's.” You can hear examples of the songs here.

I’m waiting for everyone to go to lunch so I can play it without someone asking, “Christmas music already?” :-)

And there was a third Michael’s flyer with the ads (we got two with the double Sunday paper deal), so now we have three more coupons. James and I are working on a Christmas project. One of his hobby shop acquaintances was sent to Iraq and he has asked to have modeling supplies and models sent over to the guys for something to do while off duty. Last week we got three different paint sets with the coupons and also some paintbrushes; this week we’ll get some X-acto cutters and I guess some glue. James has some duplicate models in his collection so we’re going to pack up at least one photocopy paper box of models and supplies and send it over. We should stick some other things in as well: as if being under enemy fire isn’t bad enough, the weather out there is hot, dry, and horrendous. One of my co-workers is also in Iraq and we shipped her three boxes of goodies, including lots of skin moisturizer.

Oh, and there was another flyer for one of the political candidates, a Pat Dooley. This woman’s re-election committee has sent us one flyer a day for the past month (at least), plus more a couple of times weekly during the summer. Sorry, Pat, I’m not voting for anyone who wastes our natural resources like this—how many trees died to print up your stupid flyers???

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Comments:

Christmas music? ALREADY?!?!!? AAAAAGGGHHHH! At LEAST wait until after HALLOWEEN!

J.

# posted by  Jerry : 7:37:00 PM

 

Well, the weather was so lousy yesterday I needed cheering up. Besides, I had to make sure it was okay before I tossed out the receipt, didn't I? L.

# posted by  Linda : 7:46:00 AM

 

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