Flame Damnation

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That's my niece & her new boyfriend

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Lucy looking out the window

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We got 2 ft of snow & although most is melted, we still had a white christmas & there
is still snow on parts of the grass

I didn't finish putting my photos in photobucket so that's it for now... :)

I have to show you a picture of my brother with my nephew...they look like identical twins.

lucy is like a Ridgeback with the dark muzzle and the wheaten coloured coat..

its as hot as hell here and Christmas was bloody awful....my sisters house is cramped and doesn't have air-con....so we had it outside but the food was on the table and we helped ouselves and then took it outside..

here are some pictures...

this is what I took...

a christmas cheesecake

She is growing so fast & she gets so crabby
when she is tired.  It's too funny.

this was when we first got there by the pool....my niece bought it for $1500...

Just wait until l load the pictures....I have got that "not responding" hell going on.. ::)

MMmMmM cheesecake.

It's just so odd to me to have Christmas in the summer.  LOL
My daughter and I were just talking about how it wouldn't feel
like Christmas if we went to FL because it's warm.  I dunno but
Snow & Christmas just go together and always will for me.

Did you go swimming?

here is the pool

Just wait...no I didn't go in the pool....I ate dinner, came home, posted on the net and then went to bed...I went to my mother's on  boxing day..

this is the problem I am having..."my pictures" takes forever to open....then when I finally open them, I open a folder....then I have opened to folder and its the wrong one....so then I hit back space key and I get the "not responding" ****...

The pool looks FUN.  Makes me want to go swimming already.

Here's my brother and his son (my nephew)  which is the brother
of the girl in the top photo.  That's their dad on the left (my bro).

whoops...forgot to post the pic...


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Here is a picture of the lollies....no one would let me take their picture..lol

this was boxing day out the front of mums place...

but when I open the right files, I shall post more of xmas day...no one wanted their pictures taken....no one was really dressed up for photo taking..

Who was boxing?  What does one do on boxing day?
Box eachother or watch boxing?

wow, MOM'S place looks like a tropical
paradise.

lol....no.


this was very much a bushies Christmas..

pfft, it does and she always takes off for a topical location as well...she has been to Bali over 40 times..

What did you make for boxing day?

Why do they call it 'boxing' day?

Nothing, its just another holiday following Christmas...

this is my sisters tree that is pushing the fence over and it attracts white ants [termites]....and my sister's neighbour calls them the neighbours from hell because they won't cut it down..

Boxing day comes from England and is celebrated throughout the British Empire....google it.....basically its a day you hang around in the heat eating Christmas leftovers..and getting drunk..

Boxing Day was traditionally a day on which the servants had a day off from their duties. Because of this the gentry would eat cold cuts and have a buffet-style feast prepared by the servants in advance. In modern times many families will still follow this tradition by eating a family-style buffet lunch, with cold cuts rather than a full cooked meal. It is a time for family, parlour games and sports in the UK.

The traditional recorded celebration of Boxing Day has long included giving money and other gifts to those who were needy and in service positions. The European tradition has been dated to the Middle Ages, but the exact origin is unknown and there are some claims that it goes back to the late Roman/early Christian era; metal boxes were placed outside churches used to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of Saint Stephen.[1]

In the United Kingdom it certainly became a custom of the nineteenth century Victorians for tradesmen to collect their "Christmas boxes" or gifts in return for good and reliable service throughout the year on the day after Christmas.[2] However, the exact etymology of the term "Boxing" is unclear, with several competing theories, none of which is definitively true.[3] Another possibility is that the name derives from an old English tradition: in exchange for ensuring that wealthy landowners' Christmases ran smoothly, their servants were allowed to take the 26th off to visit their families. The employers gave each servant a box containing gifts and bonuses (and sometimes leftover food). In addition, around the 1800s, churches opened their alms boxes (boxes where people place monetary donations) and distributed the contents to the poor.[4]

The establishment of Boxing Day as a defined public holiday under the legislation that created the UK's Bank Holidays started the separation of 'Boxing Day' from the 'Feast of St Stephen', and today it is almost entirely a secular holiday with a tradition of shopping and post-Christmas sales starting.

[edit] Public holiday
Boxing Day is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day, the day after Christmas Day.[1][2] Unlike St. Stephen's Day, Boxing Day is a secular holiday but is usually on 26 December unless this is a Sunday in which case it moves to 27th: the public holiday is always moved to the following Monday if 26 December is a Saturday or Sunday; for example if Christmas Day is a Friday, Boxing Day will be on Saturday but the public holiday will be the following Monday. And if it falls on a Saturday, then Boxing day will occur on Monday. In Ireland—when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—the UK's Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St Stephen as a non-moveable public holiday on 26 December. Since Partition, the name "Boxing Day" is used only by the authorities in Northern Ireland (which remained part of the United Kingdom). There, Boxing Day is a movable public holiday in line with the rest of the United Kingdom.

The Banking and Financial Dealings Act of 1971 established "Boxing Day" as a public holiday in Scotland. In the Australian state of South Australia, 28 December is a public holiday known as Proclamation Day and Boxing Day is not normally a public holiday. However, Canada, the USA, and many other countries use Boxing day for commercial use. Items usually cost less and many sales are on. Traditionally people would save one of their gifts that was still wrapped and donate it to charity. Now it has turned into a much more commercial occasion, mainly for people to save money on many items.

Apparently I don't get out much.

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the party

Here are two pictures of flowers my neighbour gives me on occasions...

the first is the flower still in bud and then later when the lily bud opened up..


beautiful

My sister next inline down....

12 yrs older and 100 times prettier than fleashit.

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Happy bday lil' guy.

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I still think your sis looks like Nicole Brown Simpson

Yeah, I was gonna say....lotsa nice vegetation!

this is my front yard about 3 yrs ago....

its more over-grown now, unfortunately and lawn is little worse for wear...

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I just want the tree!

I hope the judge sees it...

Great pictures!

The only ones I've taken lately are of snow.

Downtown Spearfish on Sunday - the city has since hauled the snow away from
the middle of the street.

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lol...holy ****...that stuff looks cold...

brrrr, brrrr.

I tossed up whether to post these pictures of the Christmas lights since they didn’t really photograph that well but one shows the bay window at the left side of my house….

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Nice pictures!

Kane's bathroom

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my bathroom...

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this is the painting that sits above my bath now...

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Ohhhh wow, I must have changed my settings so now the newest posts don't show up on the last page
but the 1st.  Silly me.

Nice bathrooms. 

I'd love a tiled shower!

what do you have now?