13: You Better Watch Out You Better Not Pout
1. Check out THESE thirteen strangely different Christmas trees.
2. And THIS bizarre Christmas Card sent out by a Puerto Rican Mayor and his family.
3. Some people go to Florida to retire. Others go HERE.
4. Speaking of bizarre, I’m doing a story right now on an artist who uses red and white polka dots in all her painting, symbolic of the amanita mushroom and as a symbol of good luck and magic. During our interview she explained that images of this mushroom have been used on Christmas and New Year’s cards all over Europe and the world and that some believe the Santa and the flying reindeer story originated from Shaman’s in Siberia who collected the mushrooms in sacks and used the them in vision quests.
5. My 14-month-old grandson, Liam, has pouting down to a science. This pout that he lays on thick when someone says “no” to him didn’t exist even a week ago. It makes me wonder if emotions are innate or learned and if I should laugh or be scared when he makes this face.
6. While Liam was pouting his 3 year old brother Bryce played with a small plunger (ala’ Mario), that he called a “plummer.” Makes sense to me.
7. I went to the Silent Auction and fundraiser Feast for Blue Mountain School at Natasha’s Café Sunday evening and the first thing I said upon walking through the door was ‘why is there a chair on a table?’ It was a beautifully renovated antique chair and turned out to be one of the items donated for the silent auction.
8. Brotherly Love HERE.
9. Guaranteed Tearjerker HERE.
10. When I recently took a favorite purple wool sweater out of storage and saw that it had some moth holes on it, I said, “Darn it!” which was exactly what I did.
11. I posted THIS picture on my Facebook Wall and it just broke my record for “likes,” 40 so far and 10 comments.
12. While driving around looking at old barns and churches, Beyonce’s song “Put a Ring On It” comes to my mind, only in my version it’s “Put a Wreath On It.”
13. With warnings like: You better watch out …You better not pout … You better not cry I’m telling you why … and lines like … He’s making a list … checking it twice …. Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice … and … He sees you when you’re sleeping … He knows when you’re a awake … THIS song scared me as a child at Christmastime.
December 15th, 2011 3:58 am
Love the story about the mushroom, and the photo you linked to in #11.
December 15th, 2011 9:52 am
A great TT!! I really like the Brotherly Love video!! Oh yea, Kathy had those mushrooms growing in her yard, ask her about it sometime.
December 15th, 2011 9:56 am
I’ve had them in my yard too. Here they are more orange with white spots than red.
December 15th, 2011 10:54 am
That pout is unbelievabley cute! It’s so fascinating to watch them develop during toddlerhood.
Happy T13,
~Xakara
13 “Procrastinations”
December 15th, 2011 11:00 am
a fa CE TO REMEMBER – aRE YOU SO GIDDY IN GRANDYLAND??MY GRANDAUGHTER IS GOING TO MY 90 YEAR OLD MOTHER’S HOUSE.LUCKY HER..
December 15th, 2011 1:51 pm
So sad about that song that scared you when you were young – but it is kind of a frightening tune when you think about it!
December 15th, 2011 2:04 pm
It was more the words: Santa can see you when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake. He’s making a list and checking it twice to find out who’s naughty or nice! And the warning: you better watch out. You better not pout.
December 15th, 2011 2:19 pm
That is a seriously adorable pout!
December 15th, 2011 4:20 pm
I actually have an uglier one but decided to post a slightly more flattering pout.
December 15th, 2011 6:19 pm
Your lists are always so much fun. Great links.
December 15th, 2011 7:45 pm
#1 said there was no site like this…Grrrrr.
Liam’s Pout is something else–And you say it just started? Maybe it makes him feel BIG to scare people a little who are bigger…
#9….Oh My Lordy—Indeed, a Tear Jerker. What is amazing too, is that this “franchise” is everywhere—there in Korea!
That young man’s voice is so very touching….!
As usual, my dear, a wonderful T13!!
December 15th, 2011 8:51 pm
Try this, Naomi: http://www.floridatopblogs.com/Ibeati/2011/12/01/Thursday_13-_13_Different_Christmas_trees__
December 16th, 2011 4:53 am
I love your Pink Floyd picture, it is so beautiful.
That is one serious pout!
December 16th, 2011 2:16 pm
I am always glad to see that you have a lot of happiness and variety in your life. 🙂
December 17th, 2011 2:06 am
LOL, LOL….Those trees are kind of Hilarious! The Pillow one and the Balloony Fingers one are so Imaginative…..lol!
December 17th, 2011 8:02 am
Wow so much to look and and read about on this one post! Great.
The Christmas trees were interesting and some of them I liked, others, not so much. 😀
The pout is classic!
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