This will be the first year of hopefully many to come when I don't spend a couple days driving all over handing out 2 pound boxes of Christmas extortion candy to secretaries so I spend minimal time on HOLD.
I only had to buy 36 pounds of chocolate this year, bought 40 just in case I forgot somebody. What the hell, some of them gals ain't bad looking and hopefully one or two got divorced. A man has to keep an inventory.
Only thing I'd like to have is the Silver Dollar John Wayne & Mickey Rooney gave me back a lot of years ago. Like to find my brother too, but I haven't been able to do that since 1965 so it ain't likely going to happen and I ain't going to look too hard. Things are what they are.
Christmas don't mean a whole lot to me.
I bought a little over $3, 000 in candy this year. Work reimbursed me, though. I like going around with the Christmas stuff. This year I got over a thousand mugs, filled them with candy, and wrapped them or put them in baskets and wrapped that. Well, to be honest, Mrs. Chilly and my daughters did the work. They don't care for my wrapping quality.....
Chilly - the Christmas treat, mug toting, pipefitter.
Chilly
Great pipe coverer in the sky Chili, what kind of a fitter forces wife & children who aren't even members of the pipe covering brotherhood to wrap mugs filled with candy?
You just tack a flange on one end of a nipple large enough to hold the pipe, torch out a handle relief and go to town with the job. Stick the center of a hunk of red or green cellophane florists use on the end of the mug, sit it into the nipple fill as desired, squish covering material with vise grips, tie with ribbon, and NEXT.
You forgot to make a fingertip blade holder, didn't you. No wonder you had to bring in help. You couldn't slash wrapping on your own. Did the wife charge by the mug or by the hour?
