Please make sure and feed the light blue fish not more than 4 times daily. The reddish one can have as much food as he wants because he will probably pout and make everybody else miserable if you give him less than anybody else.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
'Twas the Season?
Which house in the neighborhood will be the last to take down the Christmas lights?
At what point during the year does it make more sense just to leave them up until next year?
Today I saw two housing developments with poinsettias out front. I suppose the transition from lots of Christmas stuff to none is so slow that I won't really know who is the last to have some around.
Today I saw some more sad poinsettias. According to wikipedia.com:
"Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) was an American physician and diplomat. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the South Carolina legislature and the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico (the United States did not appoint ambassadors until 1896), a U.S. Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren, and a cofounder of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts (a predecessor of the Smithsonian Institution), as well as the eponym of Poinsett County, Arkansas; Poinsett Highway, Poinsett Bridge, and Poinsett State Park in South Carolina; Lake Poinsett in South Dakota; and the poinsettia, a popular Christmas plant."
Wouldn't it be interesting if we called it a Joelrobertsia?
You guessed it. More sad poinsettias today. We'll see how long they are around. The other day I thought I saw a bright red wreath on a front door. It was heart shaped one, a couple days before February started.
On the side of an old building containing a barber shop with hand-painted lettering on the window of the door; way up high by the roof, I saw an old green wreath with red and white ornaments on it today. I think it has been there many seasons.
On Columbus Day, which was barely celebrated now that he's a racist not a hero, I heard Christmas songs in Krystal. I still contend that there is one season, and it starts with Halloween and ends with New Year's.
Light pole decorations are going up in neighborhood boulevards and in shopping centers. I dusted off the soundtrack to Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer and heard Bing Crosby yesterday on the radio.
For the first time in memory, the landscrapers at my place have used poinsettias in their decorating. They are still there and I am impressed that the thought was made. Yesterday I saw a few Christmas lights still up and perhaps I'll drive around at night to see how many I can find here in Gymuary around the 9th.
Today I saw two housing developments with poinsettias out front. I suppose the transition from lots of Christmas stuff to none is so slow that I won't really know who is the last to have some around.
ReplyDeleteToday I saw some sad poinsettias.
ReplyDeleteToday I saw some more sad poinsettias. According to wikipedia.com:
ReplyDelete"Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) was an American physician and diplomat. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the South Carolina legislature and the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico (the United States did not appoint ambassadors until 1896), a U.S. Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren, and a cofounder of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts (a predecessor of the Smithsonian Institution), as well as the eponym of Poinsett County, Arkansas; Poinsett Highway, Poinsett Bridge, and Poinsett State Park in South Carolina; Lake Poinsett in South Dakota; and the poinsettia, a popular Christmas plant."
Wouldn't it be interesting if we called it a Joelrobertsia?
You guessed it. More sad poinsettias today. We'll see how long they are around. The other day I thought I saw a bright red wreath on a front door. It was heart shaped one, a couple days before February started.
ReplyDeleteSad poinsettias spotted near work....
ReplyDeleteI saw a wreath on an apartment door...not possibly any other kind than a pine Christmas one...
ReplyDeleteToday I noticed that the sad poinsettias near work are gone.
ReplyDeleteOn the side of an old building containing a barber shop with hand-painted lettering on the window of the door; way up high by the roof, I saw an old green wreath with red and white ornaments on it today. I think it has been there many seasons.
ReplyDeleteOn Columbus Day, which was barely celebrated now that he's a racist not a hero, I heard Christmas songs in Krystal. I still contend that there is one season, and it starts with Halloween and ends with New Year's.
ReplyDeleteLight pole decorations are going up in neighborhood boulevards and in shopping centers. I dusted off the soundtrack to Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer and heard Bing Crosby yesterday on the radio.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in memory, the landscrapers at my place have used poinsettias in their decorating. They are still there and I am impressed that the thought was made. Yesterday I saw a few Christmas lights still up and perhaps I'll drive around at night to see how many I can find here in Gymuary around the 9th.
ReplyDelete