Merry Xmas. (No war on Christmas here.)
As may be obvious, I’m away for a few days. I’m on the Monterey peninsula doing my day job, and Jeremy and Cheryl are here for a visit. We went to Point Lobos yesterday, on a brilliant beautiful windy day, with pelicans flying back and forth in front of us. Jeremy took a few thousand photographs (he’s a professional you know) and he says he will post some here when he gets back. Normal broadcasting will resume on Friday.
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Have a wonderful Christmas break, OB!
Ditto from me and say hi to Jery for me.
Merry Christmas (belatedly) Ophelia and thanks for another year’s worth of stimulating and mind-opening reading and discussion.
Hah! Bumhug!
Semi-seriously, though:
If I go to considerable time,effort and expense at christmas/hanukkah/yule/solstice/whatever, and bedeck the front of my house with a light-aircraft-distracting display of festive lights that spell out the words “BAH, HUMBUG!” in massive, multicoloured letters, then am I, in fact, celebrating the aforementioned festival-of-choice?
:-)
Happy Christmas and have a wonderful new year. I just want to thank you for this terrific blog, it’s a rare beacon of light in the intellectual darkness of the web and your unflagging energy and refreshingly clear sighted moral sensibility are always a delight. Thank you.
OB, you have a *day job*? I hope for your sake it’s not very taxing, given the work you put in here…
Which is a sort of halfarsed way of saying, Merry Solstice and a Happy Excuse for Piss-Up [or however you actually translate ‘Hogmanay’?], and thanks for the sanity…
Frohe Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!
Nollaig shona daoibh! (addressing in plural)
Gutes neues Jahr! A prosperous new year!
Áthbliain faoi mhaise daoibh!
Táim i ndóchas go bhfuil ádh mór agaibh i mbliain seo chugainn!
I hope you have much luck in the coming year!
Beannacht libh, blessings be with you,
Enjoy the rest of the Xmas season that is in it, in Monterey!
Slan leat! Tra for now!
Thanks, all! Especially Nick; how kind of you to say so.
Dave, I have two day jobs, actually; one quite taxing, one not, but both are very part-time, thus making work I put in here possible.
I’ve only mentioned the TPM job some four hundred times here.
I look forward to seeing Jeremy’s photos of Pt. Lobos, surely one of the most beautiful places within several hundred miles. I have very many shots of the place myself.
BTW, it’s not normal to see so many pelicans in winter. Is this more evidence of global warming? Here in Santa Cruz, they still haven’t gone south.
I look forward to the Pt Lobos pics too! I don’t think I really saw them. I saw some pics in the evening after they were taken, and others not…there were a lot of heavy surf pictures at Asilomar beach on a windy morning, as well as the Pt Lobos ones. Stuff to look forward to.
We hadn’t seen many pelicans until that day, then suddenly there were lots of them.