(Note: If you are looking for the meaning of “GITRDUN,” then please see the bottom of this post) A level of personal expression is about to be taken away from citizens of Kansas, and from it I get a funny topic to share on the last day of 2009. I have to admit I understand… (read more)
I always thought building gingerbread houses was for an evil old lady trying to lure innocent youngsters to her lair. On Christmas Eve morning, after driving a friend to the airport, my wife and our son opened up a kit to make our own. Gingerbread house, not lair. Maybe a lair would have been easier…. (read more)
Okay, it’s Christmas Eve, so below is the link to the songs that I first posted in 2006. They’re sung by a madrigal group my wife was in back in college. If you like the samples, then download the full versions and put them on your favorite music player, or burn them to CD. http://blog.markwill.com/pages/free-christmas-song-each-day… (read more)
A photographic round-up of the Silver Dollar City Christmas train ride. (as usual, click a pic to enlarge it) My mom tries to finish off a piece of fudge while the rest of our crew poses. My brother was sober, I assure you. I cropped the following pictures. Hey, I… (read more)
The next morning, our first day in what some call “Las Vegas without the casinos,” Shannon said there was no way she could walk anywhere, much less on hilly terrain. “Maybe I’ll just stay here while you guys go,” she said. “No, we’ll figure out something,” I said. I called Silver Dollar City and found… (read more)