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<\/a><\/p>\nOr are they? According to web site 10000 birds.com, the original song defined the gift as 4 “colly” birds. Colly means black in old English, so it’s More damned birds! And black ones at that..but wait a second – how apt! Four black birds are now being offered up as a gift from our true love. The white Reps couldn’t get the deed done, so now it’s up to the black President to make it happen. Bit of a stretch? Yah…but shoot, at this point the enthusiasm is wearing a bit thin. It’s tedious waiting for the inevitable!<\/p>\n So let’s change the subject – Christmas is in three days, we’ll have a houseful, and I promise to post more pix like the few I gave from Thanksgiving – more this time! Hope you’ve gotten your shopping done – we went out for a last minute gift this afternoon, and everybody is nutso crazy out there! So tomorrow is for Well, well – no progress today … no surprise … it’s Saturday and everyone is going to Hawaii (not skiing) for Senator Inouye’s funeral. Maybe they’ll be lying on the beach afterward, sipping drinks with little umbrellas and decide to … Continue reading <\/a>blackbirds! (Remember Sing a Song of Sixpence, calling for “Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a pie”?)<\/p>\n<\/a>baking pies – and putting together the final grocery shopping list for Christmas dinner. Should be lots of fun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"