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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2016, 01:15:29 pm »
Wait! you could put out the smoker with careless aim! LOL
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2016, 06:15:10 pm »
Climbing the ladder with much anticipation, for our users to add fun with their participation  ;D

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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2016, 06:35:42 pm »
That big swarm of bees is still in that tree, Jen get the trap quick there fixen to leave.  ;D
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2016, 06:38:59 pm »
Jen ran to shed to grab a pail, she tripped on the Christmas lights and got stung on the tale.
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2016, 06:41:46 pm »
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2016, 07:05:52 pm »
%$@*&# LIGHTS! Patting sore A--
Out of my way!
I have bees to catch!

A-- is a biblical printed word so I can say that Iddee... just this once... kisshugpatpatpat
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2016, 07:10:55 pm »
donkey if fine, but %$@*&#  isn't.  17 lashes with a wet noodle for that one.   :P :P :P
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2016, 07:18:48 pm »
CBT came by to help Jen get up, and wouldn't you know it he got stung in the butt.  ;D
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2016, 07:56:00 pm »
It's the bending over that exposed our back therefore  the phrase don't use crack. :yes:

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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #29 on: December 09, 2016, 10:16:01 pm »
We got off the story line  ;D lets pick it back up and finish ...you guys up for it?
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #30 on: December 09, 2016, 10:18:15 pm »
CBT your pretty good at this a lot better than I am :-[
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #31 on: December 09, 2016, 10:24:52 pm »
So up the ladder Jen climbed with a box and caught that swarm, then back in the house where it's nice and warm. You could here her hubby exclaim in the night Merry Christmas bee keepers and to all a low swarm.  :P

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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #32 on: December 09, 2016, 11:14:45 pm »
Ha! That is a good stanza right there CBT. But we ain't done yet, we have 42 more lines of the poem to go.

We were on track with the poem until line 14:
 "The Christmas moon on the new fallen snow
In hopes for a spring honey flow"

So line 15 is:
 "When, what to my wondering eyes should appear?"

Anyone on the forum can take it from here...

 
1 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house,
2 Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
3 The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
4 In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
5 The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
6 While visions of sugar plums danc’d in their heads,
7 And Mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
8 Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap-
9 When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
10 I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
11 Away to the window I flew like a flash,
12 Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
13 The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow,
14 Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below;
15 When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
16 But a minature sleigh, and eight tiny rein-deer,
17 With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
18 I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
19 More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
20 And he whistled, and shouted, and call’d them by name:
21 “Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,
22 “On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;
23 “To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
24 “Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”
25 As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly,
26 When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
27 So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
28 With the sleigh full of Toys - and St. Nicholas too:
29 And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
30 The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
31 As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
32 Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound:
33 He was dress’d all in fur, from his head to his foot,
34 And his clothes were all tarnish’d with ashes and soot;
35 A bundle of toys was flung on his back,
36 And he look’d like a peddler just opening his pack:
37 His eyes - how they twinkled! his dimples how merry,
38 His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry;
39 His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
40 And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;
41 The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
42 And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
43 He had a broad face, and a little round belly
44 That shook when he laugh’d, like a bowl full of jelly:
45 He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
46 And I laugh’d when I saw him in spite of myself;
47 A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
48 Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
49 He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
50 And fill’d all the stockings; then turn’d with a jerk,
51 And laying his finger aside of his nose
52 And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
53 He sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
54 And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle:
55 But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight-
56 Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
  











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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #33 on: December 09, 2016, 11:31:40 pm »
When what to May wondering eyes should appear,
It looks like santa wearing  beekeeping gear ;D
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #34 on: December 09, 2016, 11:36:54 pm »
With a little old driver, so quick and lively

I knew in a moment it must be St. Iddee
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #35 on: December 09, 2016, 11:44:39 pm »
Wearing his bee suit ,his vail and his gloves he knew them by name and showed them much love.
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #36 on: December 10, 2016, 12:31:33 am »
Stanza 21 "Now! Dasher, now, Dancer, now Prancer, and Vixen ---

                "On Comet, on Cupid, on Dunder, and Blixen"

I just had a brilliant idea! well, it might be brilliant, if we don't get into a political war... How about naming the deer, or bees pulling the sleigh... After past presidents? Hmmm, like Vixen could be....Nixon  ;D :laugh: ???

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=past+presidents+of+the+us&view=detailv2&&id=27E5799E3848358FA97916C77158B8285C7D9D07&selectedIndex=3&ccid=gq39WJQP&simid=608049967446428801&thid=OIP.M82adfd58940f5cb3308a84f1f40cd854H0&ajaxhist=0

Or, anything you guys think would be fun, favorite athletes male and female, favorite rock stars, movie stars...





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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #37 on: December 10, 2016, 05:42:02 pm »
I am stumped I must be having writers block!  :eusa_wall:
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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #38 on: December 10, 2016, 05:49:12 pm »
Does that mean Cupid is Clinton

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Re: The night before Christmas
« Reply #39 on: December 10, 2016, 06:11:25 pm »
Which one is obama?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein