luf100
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Post by luf100 on Dec 7, 2009 23:16:21 GMT -5
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Post by mirium on Dec 9, 2009 9:18:24 GMT -5
Early to talk about Christmas? The stores around here started talking about it before Halloween! Which I ignored, of course -- I like to take one holiday at a time and enjoy it thoroughly before moving on to the next one. It's not my religion, but I'm looking forward to ringing bells for the Salvation Army for a few hours. My sis and bro-in-law teach their kids about community service by just doing it as an assumed part of their life, and they borrow a set of hand bells from their church and sign up for a shift -- since there are 10 bells and only four of them (sis, BIL, two kids) it's handy to have a fifth pair of hands even if they do belong to a heathen. ;D BIL is an enthusiastic guy and he finds appropriate sheet music for hand bells and we struggle heroically to make sounds that could be a recognizable tune if you're in a generous mood. We all tend to go "Ack!" every time we make a mistake and passersby last year seemed to enjoy the errors even more than the carols -- at least, they mostly ignored us when we got it right but grinned and put money in the pot when we went "Ack!" We collected a LOT of money....
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