A Great Way To Get Ready
Thanks to Randy at The Upward Way Press for this link to a great video way to start the Christmas decorating season. [PS: Remember, Christmas Eve is exactly 4 weeks away!]

And One More
Found a terribly time-wasting site thanks to Gary at Country Keepers. It's a Shaggy Dog Story archives. There are already 1,900. If you are not familiar with them, shaggy dog stories are simply set-ups for really bad puns. Groaners, galore. Which my wife will be the first to tell you are among my best jokes. (Says a lot about me right there, doesn't it.) Here the link to the site titled "Tarzan's Tripes Forever."

And here, to continue with the early seasonal theme of today's post (but be warned!):

A Shaggy Seasonal Story

A couple was dining at a fancy restaurant, and was most impressed with the broccoli with hollendaise sauce. They succeeded in coaxing the chef to their table to wax eloquent, and to beg for the recipe. Finally, he relented, "Madame, Monsieur, it is so simple. Make sure zee ingredients are FRESH. Zee broccoli should be just so. ....", and on and on he went. Finally, he emphasized, "...And zee most important thing of all, you MUST serve zee sauce on a chromium plate. Chrome is zee key!"

"A CHROMIUM plate?", one of them asked. "Why is this so important?"

"Sacre bleu, Madame and Monsieur, don't you know zhere is no plate like chrome for ze hollandaise?"