Sudoku Puzzles

A picture to warm the hearts of all pet lovers.
-9C? How lucky you are. We're at -13 and falling.

Broni, This one's for you. You know what I'm talkin' about...

Good morning to everyone. We've finished putting up the lights and decorations. The house looks lovely all lit up and surrounded by snow. This weekend we are taking our grandchildren to see The Nutcracker. Happy Holidays!!

..... roasting by an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping at your nose .....
Folks dressed up like

Answers for yesterday's puzzlers:

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What’s next in sequence? L K J H G F ?

Answer: D.
Middle row of a keyboard from right to left.

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Eleanor is going to Rome for 5 days,

Nicholas is going More...

Ya know I've never had a "roasted chestnut"...

Fresh Pot

I am off for the "stress" portion of my tests today. This is the one where they will give me a drug to make my heart race - feels like it is going to burst! God willing, I will be cleared for the surgery after this!

The reason for the surgery (several people sent messages More...

I remember roasted chestnuts from my childhood in the 50s. I had an uncle near Allentown, PA with a farm and a massive chestnut tree on it and we would roast them over the fire. They were sublimely delicious!

Re: Yesterdays "weather guess" I received 4 Correct Answers: Glenn, Kathy, Greg, Jim. Ya'all did good. Thanks for playing. (1 incorrect answer rcvd.)

Glenn, you are, indeed, blessed. So many people never know / learn ........

Well, I guess the system is working. I had a TOPP, yesterday. It moved back when "something" was removed...

What a good photo! Good mAen.

If Gath had posted and said, "My mate Fred is taking over some of my website chores" no one would have a problem. Everyone would be "Hey, Fred."

Instead Gath's come up with someone named Hallmonitor.
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Jerry, I just found a package of chestnuts to roast in my grocery's produce section. I was so surprised they made it to my little town.

I suppose the site sometimes drifts into nice platitudes. However I don't think antagonism verging on personal abuse is at all the right postitive, stimulating answer.
The cure for 'platitudinism' is surely a more creative approach. The programme Eastenders on UK TV is one I dislike, because More...

Night Before Christmas - Legal Version

Whereas, on or about the night prior to Christmas, there did occur at a certain improved piece of real property (hereinafter "the House") a general lack of stirring by all creatures therein, including, but not limited to a mouse.

A More...

Better finish....

and other unknown items. He was smoking what appeared to be tobacco in a small pipe in blatant violation of local ordinances and health regulations.

Claus did not speak, but immediately began to fill the stocking of the minor children, which hung adjacent More...

I started to post a comment about the big HM debate over the last couple of days but then began to worry about how my thoughts would be interpreted. So, I'll not say anything at all.

To Glenn: You've got more folks in your corner than you think. We have a pink ribbon flying from our flag pole. With proximity comes empathy.

JUST FOR Rayray, (The rest of you can look too)

An Irishman goes into the confessional box after years of being away from the Church.

There is a fully equipped bar with Guinness on tap. On the other wall is a dazzling array of the finest cigars and chocolates.

Then the More...

Sodding good read Jerry.
I'm glad you started and because you had strated you finished.
But what happened about the insurance claim for damage to roof caused by hoof and sleigh runner, and to the compensation claim from Mrs Blogg's husband after her head was spliced in twain by a then and More...

Jerry: Now there is real incentive to become a person of the cloth!

I also find it highly amusing to see people's reaction to Hallmonitor. I get pictures of 13 year olds we used to be. (Yes, mea culpa, even my smug little self.)

So we're being told to "behave ourselves" and the immediate response by many is to try to argue against the standards More...

'Maulmother' and 'Speelmasher' - any more interesting Miss Spells (must be an adolescent witch - but which witch?) - we might use there?

Jeb, I'm sure everyone would welcome your thoughts.
Plum, what's in a name? Yes, Hallmonitor conjures up images, but maybe that was the message Gath wanted to project.... and you are right on with your washroom analogy.
Rayray, don't sweat the little things. It's the big things that need to be concentrated on.

Talking of toilet stalls - I rember once sitting in one. On the door opposite there was a huge arrow pointing to minute letters right at the bottom of the door.
The message formed by the letters was more or less:
"You are now squatting at an angle of 45 degrees."
--- is that too scatological?

This, folks, Just in...........

A Different Christmas Poem



The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the More...

CG: I may disagree with you. The 'big things' are always made of the 'little things', and in depth examination of the 'little things' is what usually yields results

A Different Christmas Poem (continued)


"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."


Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
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Finally did the puzzle.... and that's a cute couple in today's photo (submitted by Jim I'm sure!).

Rayray, For the most part, I don't write / make them up. I just pass em along. In this case I haven't a clue. Many think I'm "clueless" anyway...

* should have been "appointED" and "some, but not ALL, will actually go ...."
(Sorry. I'm way over the amount of time I should spend on the i'net today!)
RayRay I like your phrase "deliberately engineered antagonisms" and agree that creativity and (clean) More...

You're correct again Ray. Good insight.

To go along with the previous "toilet humor", I offer this...

There are teachers, and there are educators

For all of us with young teenage girls........


Subject: Lipstick in School -- Priceless!!

According to a news report, a certain private school More...

OK, Greg, I started to go ahead and post a thought but just as I was pushing the pointer to 'Submit Comment', I heard sirens out on the street and chickened out.

Jeb, I have a hard time imagining you ever "chickening out," but c'est la vie. Anyway, cheers for now to you and all.

Jerry, the "Different Christmas Poem" is wonderful. Certainly puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

Off to find the "perfect" Christmas tree!

How to Confuse Santa:
Keep an angry bull in your living room. If you think a bull goes crazy when he sees a little red cape, wait until he sees that big, red Santa suit!

Your A Grinch If:
5. You enclose a shoddy and inferior gift from Target, Walmart, or K-Mart in a Bloomingdale's or other prestige box to impress your friends.