Secret santa 2012-Sign-ups closed-HELP ME!!!!! 10/27/2012
12-08-2012, 02:08 PM
#3171
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Location: Glenmoore, PA
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Just for the record, you have to know how to treat your postal workers. Every year, early one morning I take a huge tray of cookies in for all to share. Boy, am I popular. I get treated nice all year!!!!
12-08-2012, 02:09 PM
#3172
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Location: WHERE THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES
Posts: 9,256
12-08-2012, 02:17 PM
#3173
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I love my PO
It is nice being in a small town
and they know you real well.
12-08-2012, 05:01 PM
#3175
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Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 1,809
I like that. thank you for sharing. I copied it so I can read it to the children later (Don't like to call them kids)
'Twas the night before Christmas & out on the ranch
The pond was froze over & so was the branch.
The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule.
The kids were all home on vacation from school,
And happier young folks you never did see-
Just all sprawled around a-watchin' TV.
Then suddenly, some time around 8 o'clock,
There came a surprise that gave them a shock!
The power went off, the TV went dead!
When Grandpa came in from out in the shed
With an armload of wood, the house was all dark.
"Just what I expected," they heard him remark.
"Them power line wires must be down from the snow.
Seems sorter like times on the ranch long ago."
"I'll hunt up some candles," said Mom. "With their light,
And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make out all right."
The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.
Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,
Uncased his old fiddle & started to play
That old Christmas song about bells on a sleigh.
Mom started to sing, & 1st thing they knew
Both Pop & the kids were all singing it, too.
They sang Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"
Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy firelight.
They played some charades Mom recalled from her youth,
And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.
They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,
The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.
Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;
And when the kids wakened, the power was on.
"The power company sure got the line repaired quick,"
Said Grandpa - & no one suspected his trick.
Last night, for the sake of some old-fashioned fun,
He had pulled the main switch - the old man, who thought of everyone!
-anonymous
Wishing you many hot cocoa mornings and firesky nights throughout
the new year!
The pond was froze over & so was the branch.
The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule.
The kids were all home on vacation from school,
And happier young folks you never did see-
Just all sprawled around a-watchin' TV.
Then suddenly, some time around 8 o'clock,
There came a surprise that gave them a shock!
The power went off, the TV went dead!
When Grandpa came in from out in the shed
With an armload of wood, the house was all dark.
"Just what I expected," they heard him remark.
"Them power line wires must be down from the snow.
Seems sorter like times on the ranch long ago."
"I'll hunt up some candles," said Mom. "With their light,
And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make out all right."
The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.
Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,
Uncased his old fiddle & started to play
That old Christmas song about bells on a sleigh.
Mom started to sing, & 1st thing they knew
Both Pop & the kids were all singing it, too.
They sang Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"
Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy firelight.
They played some charades Mom recalled from her youth,
And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.
They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,
The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.
Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;
And when the kids wakened, the power was on.
"The power company sure got the line repaired quick,"
Said Grandpa - & no one suspected his trick.
Last night, for the sake of some old-fashioned fun,
He had pulled the main switch - the old man, who thought of everyone!
-anonymous
Wishing you many hot cocoa mornings and firesky nights throughout
the new year!
12-08-2012, 05:16 PM
#3176
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 965
12-08-2012, 05:20 PM
#3177
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: WHERE THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES
Posts: 9,256
This is how to NOT treat your postal worker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_bfjlk7ys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_bfjlk7ys
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