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Cwillie, funny how the kindly old bearded man in his jolly red and white clothes brings out the inner child in you! Last night, for no obvious reason that I could explain, I found myself trawling through Amazon for outdoor Christmas decorations. Now I am a tasteful “front door wreath only” type of person. No inflatable weird Santas, flashing chaser strobe lights, “Santa Stop Here” things for me. But after the year we’ve all been having, I thought that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if I put up a little something that might bring a bit of happiness to the children in our neighbourhood, or lift the spirits of some of the elderly people who have spent most of this year on their own. This seemed important given that our traditional village rituals of getting together to switch on the Christmas Tree lights, going to the Carol Service and enjoying the crazy village Pantomime have all been cancelled due to Covid. I settled on a small wall mounted reindeer in tasteful warm white lights, which won’t flash or make any noise. I remembered the excitement of the Christmas lights when I was a child, and thought that this year I should be a bit less Bah Humbug and instead try to spread a little happiness!
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He came! He came! I just saw Santa!🎅🦌🛷

Ah...uhm.....I mean, uh..... Bah Humbug!
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Just found out that today, Saturday, is World Hello Day.

Had no idea when I woke up this morning, spreading Good Mornings to everyone on the Whine thread. This must be just another coincidence in my life.

Hello! everyone!

Avatar : JOY....Just joking, CWillie, JOY is last year's decorations, and we would not add music.
I still think that waiting to decorate for Christmas could be better appreciated if people could WAIT, until at least AFTER Thanksgiving. There are some lighted and flashing decorations in our neighborhood that only offer temptations.
Temptations to give out those addresses to vandals. (Just joking). Nah, no, not that. Maybe people are just trying to get this year over sooner by decorating sooner and sooner?
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And now my across the road neighbours have spent the afternoon getting their lovely, ever increasing in size musical Christmas display up and running. Oh joy.
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I just found out that apparently Santa is coming to my town this afternoon/evening ... as near as I can tell they are having a mini parade winding through the town in a harebrained scheme that will bring the parade to the people rather than the other way around.
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Good, Send.

Hi, Ms. Madge.
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I found Ms. Madge!

Scroll up where you can choose "Newest first" or "Oldest first".

Click on "Oldest first", and there she is!
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Late Night movie was okay. Not bad, not great.
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Blow The Man Down has a very interesting ending! Good movie. Just finished watching it.
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Has anyone seen Late Night or Blow The Man Down movies on Amazon? Guess I will pick one to watch this evening.
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What time is it, really?
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Happy Birthday to some of my favorite people born in November!
👻💐🎂🍰🍨
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Tonight,along with a full moon on Halloween,we have to set our clocks back an hour.
I don't like Daylight Savings time,but it is nice getting to sleep in alittle longer~
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I am watching a ‘Bewitched’ marathon on television for Halloween.

I have a confession to make. As a kid I used to try to twitch my nose to do magic! Hahaha 😂.

I also wanted my own Genie. I used to watch ‘I Dream of Jeannie.’ Both were cute shows.
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Boo!
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BOO!
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Mother and I used to start Halloween Day making cupcakes to hand out that night.
Mother made chili bean casserole and jello in the shape of pumpkins every year too and our house was covered in decorations.
Mother was always a "Crazy Lady" or 'Lady GaGa" and I was always a rabbit every Halloween and
We usually had over 75 to 100 trick or treaters and so much fun.
This year the lights are off.Covid's here and Mother's gone.
It's my 5th Halloween without my sweet monster,Mother.
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Just ate brunch/supper, after skipping breakfast.
Inside the home made chili concoction was a hidden poached egg.
A trick, and a treat all in one. 🍳
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No one ever comes to our door, or in our neighborhood.
Still, that's a good reminder that there are gremlins out there.
When I woke up this morning, it was a surprise that this was halloween!

If anything happens, they will get marshmallow rice crispies snacks, fig newton bars, or individual apple juice or grape juice boxes. But those are for our emergency go-bags. 🐤😱👌
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I wasn't planning on opening up for Halloween this year but when I was cooking supper the doorbell rang and like a dummy I answered - of course it was trick or treaters. Geez, no pumpkins or lights or anything and I never get more than a dozen kids, why did they come to my door? I handed out a few chocolate eyeballs from my personal stash but I only have a few more left 😯
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Well, we could all say hello to Ms. Madge, hoping that she herself is well and did not lose her job due to Covid.

Hi Ms. Madge! We understand if you are no longer posting, but thought you to be a really good person. Miss you!
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She hasn't posted in a long time Barb and I sure do miss her contributions and hearing about the Viking.I hope she's doing alright~
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No. Not for several months.
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Nope!
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Has anyone heard from Ms. Madge?
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I love to visit antique shops. Once I found the identical red metal cash register that I loved as a kid. I played store with my fake money all the time.

I asked the salesperson to check the price for me. It was $75! I didn’t buy it but it brought back fond memories.

Just think if we would have kept all of our vintage toys, some are quite valuable today. Nothing was made out of junky plastic.

All of my brother’s Tonka trucks were metal. I loved playing with those too. Oh, the Lionel train sets were awesome and they are certainly collector items. So are the Barbie dolls. I had the original one. I didn’t have her dream house though. I did have Skipper, the little sister. I didn’t want Ken. Hahaha, he was dorky. I much preferred my brother’s G. I. Joe. He was cool!
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My brother and I loved yo yo’s growing up. He was older and could do all the tricks.
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My grandmother had a top like that, maybe two, and they were fun! I wonder what happened to them 🤔
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Don’t know that game either. Who had a wooden top with the string that you wound up? Loved mine! I was good at spinning a top. I loved my ball and jacks too. Oh, and bubbles! Paddle ball thing, too.

I was horrible with a yo-yo. My brothers could do all the yo-yo tricks. I was a jump rope and hula hoop kid! A rubber ball! My baby dolls. The disappearing milk bottle! My tea set. Tiddly Winks! Spirograph! Etch a Sketch.

My grandpa built me stilts and I loved those too. I could skateboard but not roller skate! Best of all were large empty appliance boxes that could be turned into a fort. That was awesome! My huge live oak tree in my backyard to climb too. Of course, my bicycle.

I miss old fashioned toys. Everything shouldn’t require batteries or electricity. We had fun toys!
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I played and saw a lot of classic board games growing up. Checkers, chess, Chinese checkers, backgammon. Never heard of or saw a crokinole game. My nephews and niece like to learn new games, I may get a game as their Christmas present, and learn it. They play a lot of games in their house, have a weekly game night.

Ever seen the popular (in Asian countries) game called Go? I was watching this documentary, where an AI bot beat the world's top Go player. The game is several thousand years old, and there are something like millions of possible plays, but it's very simple to learn.

I just thought it was a fascinating game. The documentary is called AlphaGo, I think, and you can watch it for free on YouTube and other places.
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