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PAGE SIX DANCE!!

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Today, I put up a new light fixture in my living room.

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This was the old one (after removal):

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And this is the new one after installation:

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And here it is with the light on:

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Of course, here's a wide shot with the lights off:

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And the lights on:

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And finally (yes, it's the last one), from the kitchen looking out to my back slider door:

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I got it from Wayfair.  I made a list and at one point had about 40 "semi-flush mount" fixtures in it.

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It took me about two months to go through the list, add things, take things out, and eventually I just decided I liked this one enough and bought it.

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So far, Shelly likes it, and everyone that I've show pictures to has liked it, also.

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But I didn't ask anyone's opinion before I put it up...it was all my decision with no imput.

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And now, for something completely different:

Here's a touching tidbit on the recording of Jimmy Durante's narration of Frosty the Snowman:

https://youtube.com/shorts/XVOotIY3XTo

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And here's how Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fSS9-amgXGI

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Thanks for the Ragtime link yesterday, John!

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And the Ethel Merman singing to Rudolph link, too!

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The sad news keeps coming. First Gordon Goodwin, he of the Big Phat Band and a tremendous force in jazz education, died of pancreatic cancer. Now Jubilant Sykes, a baritone who sang the Celebrant wonderfully in Marin Alsop's recording of the Bernstein Mass, has been stabbed to death. RIP to both of them.

Oh, no.  That's terrible for both of them. I have that recording of Mass.

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I need to get moving. High school special ed today.

Hope it all went well, John!

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14 more shopping days!
This is from Moonshine & Mistletoe, the holiday musical I wrote with DJ Salisbury.  I think it was the 2010 New York City Gay Men's Chorus holiday concert that the Chorus sang my suite of Appalachian Carols I had written around 1984 for my father, who was born in Fallsburg KY, just outside the county seat, Louisa, KY. Several months after the 2010 concert, DJ Salisbury, a stage director who grew up in Louisa, KY, called me out of the blue. He thought there might be a show in the Appalachian Carols. I wasn't so sure, but I loved working with DJ, and I'm very proud of our show.

Only three of the five carols in the suite made  it into the show. This is one of them. Happy Holidays!
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/10-i-wonder-as-i-wander-mix1

Very nice, Larry.

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Break a leg to BK and company for the Kritzerland show!

I hope it went well!  Can't wait to read about it!

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Sad story about Jubilant Sykes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/12/09/jubilant-sykes-dies-fatal-stabbing/87692178007/?tbref=hp

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Or Stephen King’s The Mist.

That reminds me that I have a Stephen King book to pick up from the library! 

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I only have a couple more days before they put it back on the shelf.

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Fortunately, I have to run some errands tomorrow, so I've added it to my list so that I won't forget again!

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I have discovered something horrible today. If not being able to put on a pair of long pants means that I can no longer dress myself, then . . . I can no longer dress myself. Short pants are easy, but as of 10:00 a.m. this morning, long pans are a thing of my past.

Oh, no!

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After yesterday, I'm a litt;e worried about fires.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/us-news/flames-erupt-from-windows-roof-as-blaze-engulfs-nyc-apartment-building/

Oh, my goodness!  That's scary!

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Wordle 1,635 6/6

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Me too, DR George!   Whew!   My results looked like yours.

Whew to you, Kevin!

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With the rain last night I never checked for a view of the boat parade.  A neighbor today told me it had been cancelled last night, due to too much debris floating down the river  She said that she saw a tree the size of a boat.

We have seen debri like that in past years, just not at this time of year.

Yikes!

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I forgot to mention that Keith got Wordle in two.

That's fantastic, Jane!

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And now that we're so close...