"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is my favorite Christmas song. In December 1965, the astronauts requested to have it piped up as they came home aboard the Gemini 7.
Sweet potatoes should always be served with honey-baked ham.
If you open a very expensive bottle of 1993 Parisian wine, you will have to decant it several times before it becomes drinkable. It will improve the flavor if you continue to down lots of cheaper wine while the decanting takes place.
We are never too old for toy trains. Or sea monkeys. Or stuffed bears.
DC becomes emptier over the holidays, New York more crowded; one small way in which I prefer my hometown.
LED lights just aren't the same.
The strange things you find online: The January 1, 1942 edition of the Kinmundy Express reported that Carl Pruett, "a medical student home on his Christmas vacation," saved the life of Mrs. E. W. Rowlin after she accidentally set her house on fire while trying to heat the house with kerosene. He administered first aid and accompanied her all the way to the hospital in Vandalia, another small Illinois town. Carl Pruett was my grandfather. As far as I know, he never mentioned that night to my grandmother or anyone else in the family.
Those oversized inflatable lawn ornaments are monstrous, but it is still a little sad when fog or cold causes them to all deflate into brightly-colored holiday puddles.
Someone gave me a hot air balloon ride for Christmas.
If I could fast forward to March 2008 right now, I would.
How fascinating to run across your grandfather's life-saving adventure!
ReplyDeleteAnd a Hot Air Balloon Ride--fun!
Sounds like some Happy Holidays--astonishing true stories about a beloved family member, and then a wild ride in the air!
Who could ask for anything more?
Yeah, that's a remarkable story about your grandfather. And to find it online.
ReplyDeleteI once found, online, that a friend of mine from high school, whom I hadn't seen or talked to in many years, was (apparently) married briefly to an actor who later was one of the cast members of the T.V. show The West Wing.