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Marble armrests. Who actually thinks of those. It's got to make for uncomfortable seating. Besides wasting taxpayer money...

Part of our decision (or my wife's) was that her parents wedding anniversary was 12/31. (Ours was 12/30). I'm sure her played a major role in that as well. We did do it on a tight budget though. Her mother was a caterer, my dad while basically a lawn care guy before it became semi fashionable also had equity in a floral shop so he supplied the flowers. A simple reception in the church's fellowship hall. Our hotel room for the first night was the "bridal suite' at the Holiday Inn on the Virginia Beach ocean front (a whopping $25 a night).... Some great memories though. Including my Pittsburgh relatives just beating my wife down the aisle. We had the audacity of having a wedding at the same time as a Steeler playoff game.

December 27 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-27?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2025-1227-12272025

Twelve Days of Griftmas, Bullwerk style https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-12-days-of-grift-mas?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Christmas and wedding anniversary fall within 5 days of each other. It's really not a problem as we've started doing one "big" gift for the house or one we both can share. I did do a couple of "Christmas related "gifts' this year. Tickets to a Voices8 concert just before Christmas, along with a couple of other musical events related to Colonial Williamsburg. We also decided on a nice Christmas dinner out yesterday, After 38 years, it seems to work well for us

The Bears are last year's Commanders, possible the Lions from 2 years ago.

Maybe if they put a huge tariff on bullets.. https://wydaily.com/latest/alerts/2025/12/24/police-man-shoots-self-in-foot-at-williamsburg-premium-outlets/ I'm willing to bet he skipped those open carry classes held down the street

Players bumping into each other fumbles, sacks..... Sombody needs to turn off the Dan Campbell bot and reboot the program. It's stuck in 2020

I don't see any listed in a reasonable distance from me. I haven't been to one in over 30 years. A couple of local places here serve much better Fish & Chips anyway

The people are speaking

You could also include the absence of led paint in many of the older lower income apartment buildings

Did it have the spinning disc with different colors that would shine on the tree? The ones we've had usually had the lights attached. We just needed to add whatever other ornaments. Just hauling the box in and out of storage became a hassle, and after a couple of years it would be brelagated to a giant garbage type plastic bag. My major seasonal decoration these days are single candles in the windows

I have no problem with them flying in their machines, but around here there are a number who seem to transfer their piloting skills into their driving. I guess that's what you get putting a 20 or 30 something into a jet then have them transition into "rush hour" traffic. The same goes for young sailors who buy their first "muscle car"

My dad was a nurseryman, we spent many of years with a tree "borrowed from the farm" so to speak and replanted for later sale. I dislike cut trees and falling needles, no matter how well you keep them watered. We've gone the artificial route a few times, just too much work for a short period of time and with just the two of us at home if we don't travel around Christmas it's not wort the hassle now that our son is grown. I do have a wooden tree, it works well and gives me the same symbolism.

Or float

Today's JVL post. Plus what is DJT's obsession with naming everything after himself? Traditionally one has to be dead to have government buildings on non battleship battleships named after them. Especially a military weapon when he avoided serving in the armed services because of fake bone spurs https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-class-battleships-are-the-navys?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

December 23 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-23

The former Tiffany Network is now Sarah Coventry (showing my age) bad costume jewelry

It is, in effect, a declaration of war, since the establishment of a blockade is an act of war.

Now they're targeting the Smithsonian...