Hey Merry Christmas y’all, git that Christmas shopping done!  We're in the middle of the Holidaze w/parties, tree lightings, parades, gatherings, dining Divas and late nights!  Many years ago, I procrastinated on my Xmas shopping and went out on Dec. 21.  Don't do that.  It was mayhem and chaos, kids screaming, Xmas muzak blaring,  people jostling to jump in line, arguing about being in line, etc., etc....  thank goodness Gene's Haufbrau was on the way back to Folly (this was before Garage 75 and other places of respite).  I did my shopping early this year, so that other experience is just like a Home Alone memory.  Looking forward to being at the Crab Shack for their after Xmas Parade party kicking up right after the parade and their Polar Bear Dip, New Year's Day afternoon.  It's a count down to Save The Light Oyster Roast at Bowen's Island.. This year, we'll be joined with Dave Gunstra and Jim Knight and The Daze  for info and tix  https://savethelight.org/events/oyster-roast/  And just when you think it slows down, Charleston's Restaurant Week kicks in, not exactly a holiday, but it feels like it.  Remember, relax, slow down some and enjoy the season, see you soon, thanks so much for supporting us, love y'all and go outside, ciao'!

I Said Merry Christmas, Dammit!  Florida Woman Strikes Victim Repeatedly with Christmas Tree During Argument  WOFL Orlando headline.

Corpus Delicti:  Graziella Dall’Oglio of Borgo Virgilio in Mantua Province, Italy, was summoned to the local government office to get a new photo for her identity card — hers was 10 years old, and it was needed so she could continue to get her pension. When the 85-year-old arrived hobbling on a cane, Mayor Francesco Aporti did notice her voice “every so often dipped and sounded masculine,” and her neck was “thick” and her “wrinkles were strange,” but a clerk took the photo and sent her on her way — and then conveyed her suspicions to the mayor, and compared the new photo with her old one. Police went to her house, and sure enough they found her there — dead for so long, her body had mummified. It was wrapped in a bed sheet, stuffed into a sleeping bag, and hidden away. Investigators say her unemployed son had cut his hair to look like his mother, and donned a skirt, “lipstick and nail varnish, a necklace, and old-style earrings,” Aporti said. “She probably died of natural causes, but that will be established by the postmortem.” The son has not been named pending charges of illegally concealing a body and benefit fraud.  (London Telegraph) ...The mayor protected a vote. The clerk protected the taxpayers.

Final Accounting:  Atria Senior Living in Falmouth, Mass., emailed Bradford Kelley to demand his father’s October 2024 rent. Kelley’s father did not live in the facility that month: he had died in September. “He wasn’t there one day in October, why would he owe for October?” Kelley said. Atria explained that the lease that had been signed requires 30 days’ notice to quit. “Atria does not expect residents to predict when they will pass, so when someone does, they are not required to give written notice because the date of passing pushes the notice automatically,” its business director wrote. Kelley ended up getting “calls and letters to me, almost harassing me” for the money, but after he reached out to a TV station, the company decided it didn’t need to be paid the $8,036.77 after all. “I hope this helps other people out there so they don’t have to go through a similar thing,” Kelley said. Two Massachusetts legislators have proposed bills that would limit or eliminate postmortem rent at such facilities. (WBTS Boston) ...This could all have been avoided if someone had checked with the appointment scheduler in Samarra.

In case you wondered,  Why we have two nostrils instead of just one. – https://www.popsci.com/science/why-we-have-nostrils/?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew

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