Christmas Weekend Wild Card

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  wheels on December 25 at 8:59 a.m.

  Merry Xmas to everyone.This is the first time I have’nt been ‘home’ for Christmas in 25yrs…so…..’if only in my dreams’ will have to do.God Bless,

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  JamesBond on December 25 at 9:37 a.m.

  Favorite present so far: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Blu Ray!!!

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  JeanieSpokane on December 25 at 10:40 a.m.

  Merry Christmas everyone. Today is the first Christmas I haven’t had my two sons with me. (Yesterday they were here though)

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  Stickman on December 25 at 1:15 p.m.

  Merry Christmas to our wonderful family here at Huckleberries. I spent my morning going out to see the eagles, and though I have been many times already, today seemed like there were more than I have ever seen before. I can see why the new record shattered the old one. It’s amazing. If you get an extra hour or so to just do nothing, take a drive around Beauty Bay and up through that one canyon before turning back around. There are more birds back in there than anywhere else.

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  stacyp on December 25 at 1:45 p.m.

  I noticed the same thing yesterday, Stickman. Incredible to witness that much beauty and grace in a single morning. I’m still smiling about it.

  Merry Christmas, everyone.

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  kamm on December 25 at 1:47 p.m.

  Merry Christmas to all my Huckleberry friends. You’re like my family - a big box of gourmet chocolates, each with its own special taste and some sorta nutty, but put together as a great treat!

  I opened the best presents this morning; a review of 2010 photo album of my daughter and g/son and a Christmas box of Lifesavers. They both know what I love!
  I’m bundled in my new jammies - an annual present to myself- and overdosing on classic Holiday movies.

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  Stickman on December 25 at 2:23 p.m.

  stacyp: I took some pictures this morning with 8 eagles in one tree. There are many trees like that all around Beauty bay, when just last week you might have seen one. It really is amazing. I will definitely be going back out every single day next week, when it’s much quieter. Today was turning into a zoo out there, with people and cars all over the road and amazed by what they were seeing. At least everyone was driving slow. During the week it’s so much better, so if anyone has the chance in the next week or two, make the venture.

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  fortboise on December 25 at 6:25 p.m.

  Woke to a multicolored sunrise, walked on the greenbelt for an equally colorful sunset. Didn’t see eagles, but a great blue heron standing in the water decided the couple who walked past us was a bit too much disturbance… scrawked in a quite prehistoric manner as it sprang up, and beat its wide wings downriver.

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  JeanC on December 26 at 10:16 a.m.

  Spent a lovely day yesterday. Made very yummy gluten free blueberry muffins and bacon for breakfast, watched the Alistair Sim A Christmas Carol and then A Christmas Story. Went over to some friends for dinner and had a very nice evening.

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  JeanieSpokane on December 26 at 3:06 p.m.

  I had a lovely day with my two sons - and then a little quality time with my oldest as I said goodbye to him. He is heading to Arizona for a new job. My heart is breaking.

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  hhuseland on December 26 at 3:08 p.m.

  …And now, back to Winter. Accuweather has predicted 11 inches of snow for Bayview/Athol area from late today through Wednesday night.

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  hmoffsuite on December 26 at 3:17 p.m.

  Jeanie S >> “He is heading to Arizona for a new job. My heart is breaking.”

  Think this through for a minute. Keeping in mind it was about 75 here in Scottsdale yesterday with bright blue skies. So, if your son moves to Arizona, and gets set up, and has room for his mom to visit, you might have just had a good turn of events. Make lemonade out of lemons. Getting out of Winter feels good for a while, sometimes. This might be your ticket tor ride. :~)

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  Cindy_H on December 26 at 3:57 p.m.

  So sorry JeanieS. I know you’ll miss him. But hmo makes a very good point.
  I see a road trip in our future :-)

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  Mr_Bloggy on December 26 at 6:39 p.m.

  hmo does make a good point

  so here is Mr_Bloggy’s hypothesis - the Great Bush Recession is forcing more and more folks to relocate to other areas of the nation to find work. Altho post-agrarian America has long been noted by transient, mobile workers and the tectonic shift from extended to nuclear families - that there may be a new paradigm loading up U-Haul trailers and dropping off change of address forms at the post office - and while Mr_B s no sociologist nor economist, he senses something is brewing and it’s not just more of the same (migratory workforces) but that it is profound, structural and possessing of key functional qualities that cause America to operate in significantly different ways in the future. Possibly a more permanent and less mobile underclass of service workers - primarily recent and illegal immigrants - they will move less, partly as a result of tougher immigration laws and enforcement requiring a lower profile and more static and bonded family structures (extended families) driven by economic and deportation-avoidant forces. So, as larger immigrant communities form in urban areas (and in agro-communities) the higher waged primarily Caucasian dominated tech/pro and the industrial-manufacturing jobs which remain in-sourced in America will be highly mobile by necessity and nature and lead to continued weakening of cultural and familial cohesion and identity. Internet families will not be enough - that pr100 hours of Skyping and Facebooking does not equal one hour of a face to face supper w family members or a walk through a park with loved ones.

  America has been undergoing these changes for some time now but Mr_B intuits it will accelerate exponentially to accommodate economical-financial strains, pressures and opportunities. White America will fade and become translucent, letting the other colors show, indeed, dominate through the thinning veil of white dominance. Chasing the green will fundamentally change the color balance of this nation. As to the babyboomers gracelessly skidding their Harley Davidsons and RVs into retirement, their irrelevance will consign them to mere footnotes as toothless consumers of the cornucopia of a new United States of America. Mr_B thinks it will be painful at times, wonderful at times, and necessary all the time. The whirlwind is about to be reaped and it will be an ozone drenched, rain swept and warmly fecund spring wind of rebirth. Buckle up.

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  poolman on December 26 at 10:15 p.m.

  Mr B you are right. Stickman- i saw the eagles today and was awestruck, they are amazing.

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