That is, the final post of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). It wasn’t nearly as exhausting or challenging as NaNoWriMo, but it gives me a certain level of satisfaction to have blogged every day for a month. This is especially considering how little I’d blogged this year up to November 1.
Although I registered with the [...]
Archive for November, 2009
November 30 – The Final Post
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged being older than the Grinch, NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 29 – Next Up in the Photo Above
Posted in My Collections of Stuff, tagged Grantham, Hyacinth Bucket, Keeping Up Appearances, old china saucers, Royal Doulton on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The transfer-printed dish in the background is a saucer I bought at an antique mall that used to be open in a big industrial building in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. I bought the saucer because I thought it looked old, and it was priced at only a couple of dollars. On the bottom it’s marked “Royal Doulton [...]
November 27 – Christmas Walks
Posted in Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged Christmas walks, Miamitown Ohio, Milford Ohio on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve grown to love the day after Thanksgiving almost as much as Thanksgiving itself – and NOT because of “Black Friday.” I hate the whole Black Friday mindset and stay away from the malls and big box stores until the mania simmers down.
On this Friday what I enjoy is a good Christmas walk. Today Mom, [...]
November 26 – A Fine Thanksgiving 2009
Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, Thanksgiving, The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had quite a nice Thanksgiving. Mom worked herself to the nub preparing everything – another year, another marathon, another successful meal! At 77, she’s absolutely amazing.
And it was all wonderful, as usual. The entire Hooligan clan and my brother joined the feast. The only ripple was S.Hooligan acting out in her signature way. First [...]
November 25 – Nobody Wants to Visit Santa
Posted in Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we all went over to Tri-County Mall to pick up the Hooligans’ Christmas portraits at Sears. We’ve done this in the past the day before Thanksgiving, and on those occasions we added a visit to the mall Santa, since the mall is relatively empty midday.
Last year J.Hooligan bowed out of the Santa visit. He [...]
November 24 – The First Tree
Posted in Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, tagged trimming the tree on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t remember when it became a tradition for the Hooligan family to put up their Christmas tree the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. Maybe we started when J.Hooligan was a baby and we were eager to get into the spirit.
One of those tree-trimming Tuesdays I remember especially was the year Diamondqueen was pregnant with S.Hooligan [...]
November 23 – The Treasure Hunt Begins
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged cleaning apartment, Kreinik threads, treasure hung on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I much prefer thinking I’m spending my time off this week “treasure hunting” rather than just trying to clean and organize my apartment. I spent a LONG time going through an IKEA bag full of stuff to either sort or shred, and I sorted through some other things as well.
The biggest treasure I uncovered so [...]
November 22 – The Anniversary, Again
Posted in Just Rattling On, Looking Back, tagged assassination, John F. Kennedy, Lee Havey Oswald, Oswald's ghost on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This evening I watched a repeat of an “American Experience” program called Oswald’s Ghost. I didn’t read or hear much about the anniversary of JFK’s assassination today, but it’s not one of the big anniversary years. I wonder sometimes if every baby boomer who is old enough to remember the events thinks of that day [...]
November 21 – No Place Like Home for the Holidays
Posted in Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, Thanksgiving, tagged Gurley candles, Perry Como, the Saturday before Thanksgiving, There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know why certain days become etched in memory, days with nothing really spectacular or eventful about them. I’ve always thought fondly of a Saturday before Thanksgiving in the early 60s. I don’t know where my father was – maybe that’s why we had fun that day. Mom needed some Gurley figurine candles for [...]
