My humor blog's been all about comic strips and that stupid hair tie that by the way reappeared again but at this point I don't even care anymore. Here's recent writings from it: MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 8 Statistics 2022: Everybody Likes Me Complaining About Comic Strips, Comic Strip Sites Statistics Saturday: Some Things I Would Like To Stop With Their Not-Existing And Be Again I Regret This Pressing Engagement Kept Me Busy Mostly I Enjoy Being Part of My Age and Demographic Cohort What's Going On In The Phantom (weekdays)? Where did the Bandar cavalry come from? October 2022 - January 2023 What Is the Most Punchable Les Moore Has Ever Been? MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 9 And now I bring you the last of my Christmas photographs. These are all, in fact, from the day after Christmas, but that's still pretty close in spirit. More of the Christmas cookies we made. Again you see how much we went for glitter this year. Also we experimented with more elaborate line patterns, like the belt on that angel around 11 o'clock. Or the attempt to make Charlie Brown shirt lines on the bell at bottom that instead looks like a river's edges. bunny_hugger's parents' tree by night, a scene that deserves to be a postcard. And a last look here at the base of their tree and some of the ornaments it's easy to overlook. Back home! The nice side about several days of four-inch snows is we got this great view of the lights under snow. The bushes out front looked great with the snow covering their webs of lighting. Really can't get enough of the lights under snow look. There's something a bit Original Star Trek about the way light pours out of this snow cover. Close-up on lights smothered by the snow, letting illumination leak out. We got these mesh lights for the bushes out front and they're quite easy to put up (and take down) yet look good, especially with snow on them. And the last view of snow on our bushes so far since it has, apart from the Christmas week storm, not been a snowy winter at all yet. Trivia: The 'ton', as a measure of ship capacity, derives from 'tun', medieval English for a barrel or wine cask and so was always a measure of volume; the English Parliament first tried to standardize its measure in 1694. Source: To Rule The Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, Arthur Herman. Currently Reading: A History of The World's Airlines , R E G Davies.