PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
LOOKIN’ BACK TO SEE
What’s the best part of the Christmas season? Seeing it in the rear-view mirror on Boxing Day.
Christmas sales start the same day as leftover Halloween candy. It just never ends. There’s no diversity.
Scrooge had the right idea. He was just a little too enthusiastic. I wouldn’t beat Tiny Tim to death with his own crutch, but I would prefer supermarket Muzak to play Elvis, singing Blue Hawaii, rather than Blue, Blue Christmas.
My name is Phil, and I live in Punxutawney. I am not related to three hula hoop Chipmunks, and I ain’t comin’ out till February 2nd.
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Archon's Den 
Listening to Blue Hawaii was a treat. Phil is right. Christmas ends on December 26, but it never really ends. If you are Bill Murray, neither does Groundhog Day, at least until the end of the movie.
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One advantage of COVID is that I visit few stores to hear Christmas Muzak. Instead, I stay home and watch underrated Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, or Caddyshack, and listen to Kenny Loggins tell me that I’m Alright! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmPckNvD3E
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perhaps the bears have the right idea. Feast on Sockeye in the spring and stuff themselves in autumn and sleep through the winter, until the sockeye return.
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Sounds like the story of my life – till my doctor made me give it up. 😳
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You’re a woodchuck! That’s a nice switch. Remember there’s always room under our barn for one more….
😉
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You don’t have an albino one, do you??! Ontario’s Wiarton Willy died last year, and they’re still looking for a replacement. Nice to see a relative get a job. Good quarters – good food. 😆
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An albino? No. But ours are fat and jolly if that counts for anything.
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I’ll take “Stripes.” 🙂 And may Phil live forever. 🙂
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That’s one of Bill’s movies that I’ve never seen. Perhaps Phil has. 😉
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🙂
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Dear Archon,
Merry Bah Humbug,
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I didn’t mind the “Christmas Season” when it was shorter and more spiritual. It has grown out of control, into a two month-long Festival of Conspicuous Consumption. 👿
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I’m with you. The commercial aspect has gotten so friggen out of hand. Now that I am working for a furniture selling group, I am inundated with this sale and that sale way before the holiday in question starts.
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Yeah, the timing can seem so off. We had a young fellow come to our company , from one that made snowblowers – in the summer, and lawnmowers in the winter. 😕
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Like, you wanna be thinking of snow whilst mowing your lawn…
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😳 👿
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Awww. I feel like Phil is already seeing his shadow this year. Fun story!
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Phil is a bit shadowy anyway. There’ll be another six weeks of grumpy. 😉 🙂
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I like the holiday celebrities in your story. I look forward to Phil’s and then beyond…
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Phil and Easter Bunny share a burrow. Just wait till you read where he gets the eggs. 😉
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LOL!
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I just love your frustrated-to-crazy, edgy storyteller. Love his style.
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Hey! I resemble that remark. When you reach my age…. I’ve seen and done it all, and I’m out on probation. 😉 😆
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