So last night was a blue moon. It was the first occurrence of such an event on 19 years.
Hope for peace.
Here's my little army of nutcrackers. By the time this picture gets posted they will be all packed up and waiting to be stored in the back room closet. Kinda sad to see them all go, but there is a time and place for everything. And their time is up. Soon flowers and trees will begin to bloom, children will flock to the park, daylight hours will return to a proper portion of the day (try 13 out of the 24). And that means Summer is just around the bend! I can't wait, and that was picture #15
I've had this setup for a while now, but thought I should share. Its quite nice. Surf the net, surf the tube. Rarely have to get up. You can barely see my army of nutcrackers guarding the big screen. The holidays are wrapping up here, hope every one had a good Christmas and New Year. Third day into '08 and here's picture #13.
But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests, according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly followed.
For a quarter of an hour bearded and robed priests laid into each other with fists, brooms and iron rods while the photographers who had come to take pictures of the annual cleaning ceremony recorded the whole event.
A dozen unarmed Palestinian policemen were sent to try to separate the priests, but two of them were also injured in the unholy melee.
"As usual the cleaning of the church after Christmas is a cause of problems," Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh told AFP, adding that he has offered to help ease tensions.
"For the two years that I have been here everything went more or less calmly," he said. "It's all finished now."
The Church of the Nativity, like the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, is shared by various branches of Christianity, each of which controls and jealously guards a part of the holy site.
The Church of the Nativity is built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born in a stable more than 2,000 years ago after Mary and Joseph were turned away by an inn.
My thought-Since when has anyone heard of a man fighting over NOT having enough to clean?!? But seriously, its ashame that this happened, and for the morbidly curious here's a pic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anandamurti/2141712171/
Eat your heart out! This is a collection of all the goodies I got for Christmas. I luuuvvv Chocolate. I am set until Easter. But it's not all candy, I do have some apples and oranges. Mmmmmm, I'm getting hungry. Pic #12
The coffee table it sit upon has a glass insert on top. The surface was large enough for all figures, save for one angel. The extra angel was set up on a shelf on the opposite side of the room over looking a glass City of Bethlehem, but back to the Nativity. I love how the attention is drawn to the baby Christ. Just a lovely image.
This is the gift I snagged from the White Elephant gift exchange. Pez candy(!!!Y!!!A!!!!Y!!!!) and a measuring cup full of Smarties. Which reminds me, where are those Smarties?
My Thanksgiving was good. I finally fixed up our living room, looks nice eh?. I really haven't been doing much lately. I did change Internet Browsers, from IE to Firefox. Let me tell you, FF is good stuff. Great customization (zat spelled right?) and looks great, when you can get it to work. I haven't got mine set up quite right. More on that later. So any~who, this is Picture 5.
