And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When my parents moved from Germany back to the States, they brought a bunch of handmade German glass ornaments. I am pretty sure that those beauties lasted just a few years.
I look forward to and enjoy having the house decorated for Christmas. There'll come a day when its just too much to drag all that stuff out only to have to put it back 5 weeks later, but I do enjoy it now.
However, the one thing that I hate, hate, hate is glitter. I can barely escape it this time of year, and once it gets into the house (as it did today on a Christmas card from some friends), its here forever.
When my parents moved from Germany back to the States, they brought a bunch of handmade German glass ornaments. I am pretty sure that those beauties lasted just a few years.
ReplyDeleteThey still live here on the ghost compound, but not the drink flat.
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Hope your money's right.
My dad would put tinsel on one strand at a time by the hundreds. Foil not that plastic stuff and it really made a tree stand out.
ReplyDeletePretty ornaments.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to and enjoy having the house decorated for Christmas. There'll come a day when its just too much to drag all that stuff out only to have to put it back 5 weeks later, but I do enjoy it now.
However, the one thing that I hate, hate, hate is glitter. I can barely escape it this time of year, and once it gets into the house (as it did today on a Christmas card from some friends), its here forever.
glitter, NO !!!!
DeleteThe lead paint on those things really make the colors pop and last a long time! The lead tinsel too.. damn that was living!
ReplyDeletegot some on the tree right that are 50+ years old. i put on a plastic santa every year like i have for the last 65 years. i'm 71.
ReplyDeleteWe had these when I was a kid. Then we got a cat.
ReplyDeleteThey were still selling these in the Salzburg Christkindlmarkt when we were there last week. I'll admit they brought a tear to my eye from memories.
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