December 12, 2021: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 81 Comments

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

In the spirit of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem, we present this medley of beautiful decorated homes.

Your tips of the past day are much appreciated!

81 Replies to “December 12, 2021: Reader Tips”

  1. I’ve never particularly liked going to and from my house in B. C. at this time of year, but I did enjoy seeing some places decked out for the season. Even the occasional farmhouse out in the middle of a field would be decorated.

    I’ve found that sights like that reassuring, whether I’d see them from the road or from the air.

    1. I live near this internationally known facility that contains an equestrian show jumping complex that comprises 505 acres (2.04 km2) (in Calgary, Alberta) known as Spruce Meadows.

      In the following (1:49) video see their beautiful Christmas lights drive-through display. The place is so large that there are named streets throughout. My favorite sign is an irregular stop sign. Instead of “STOP” the sign says, “Whoa”— !

      I’m certain that the horses know how to read it.
      Enjoy the video:
      https://youtu.be/RvBiJDv8xzM

      P.S.
      For visitors, they have their own bus from the C-Train station at Somerset when there are activities going on there. The current president and CEO of Spruce Meadows is Linda Southern-Heathcott, a former Olympian who competed in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. Her late father started the place.

      Bruce Springsteen and family showed up when his daughter competed there.

      1. On my way back from my house earlier this week, I saw a number of houses in the snootier outlying suburbs of Edmonton that were similarly decorated.

        Being a Canadian Utilities shareholder, I’ve attended some of their annual general meetings. I got to meet both Ron and Nancy Southern.

          1. Nancy Ross – I was just trying to clarify who “his” was in “Bruce Springsteen and family showed up when his daughter competed there”. That’s all. Thanks for clarifying.

    2. I’m not impressed with these “best decorated houses in the world.” Too gaudy. Overdone. Whatever happened to quietly tasteful?

  2. It’s even in the Globe and Mail:

    South African doctors see evidence Omicron COVID-19 variant is milder than Delta

    – Average hospital stays for COVID-19 have been shorter this time – about 2.8 days compared to eight days.
    – Just 3 per cent of patients hospitalized recently with COVID-19 have died, versus about 20 per cent in the country’s earlier outbreaks.

    “The patients he’s treating now have milder, flu-like symptoms, such as body aches and a cough, he said

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-south-african-doctors-see-evidence-omicron-covid-19-variant-is-milder/

      2. At last report, it’s devastated whole countries overnight…… if you listen to the MSM, of course.

  3. BAD: further to our earlier discussion…
    Investors flock to MIT fusion spinoff –
    Commonwealth Fusion Systems last week announced that a recent financing round had raised $1.8 billion in capital, making the company far and away the funding leader among a host of commercial fusion rivals.

    That’s $18,000,000 per employee.

    Why go public when you can raise that kind of capital from Gates and others?

    https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20211209a/full/

    1. I know a number of university professors who’d like to have that sort of funding.

      1. BAD – I know a number of engineers who would like the same. I’m seeing similar crazy investment in lithium in Alberta. 15 person companies raising $14M over a short period. It’s good to catch those things on the way up.

        1. It’s good to catch those things on the way up.

          I’ve been an investor long enough to know that by the time I hear of such a “promising” investment, the big money’s probably already been made.

          1. Just before our politicians started to impose their ‘babysitting nanny state’ of regulating everything on the jobsite with fines were some of my most creative periods where my brain wouldn’t shut off.
            When your working with chainsaws and woodworking tools, the guards were a hindrance as we were using them very differently from normal use but government regulations were in effect and they didn’t allow modifications…
            I had a real good boss who would make promises of things never done before but gave me the task of creating it out of logs and timber with the help of a sawmill. I created jigs for production purposes and really went nuts. My boss would order whatever material logs and he would get the promises he made with his clients in building log homes and timberframes. I could snap a chaulk line in anything and it give me my much needed line to measure off of to being accurate to 1/16 of an inch. He had excellent exact measurements to work off of for whatever. I could quite successfully square up materials and make unique products or rails and grind the excess material to being log looking and round.
            Government regulations pretty much destroyed that job.

          2. B A,
            I did create some really amazing things that my past wife really enjoyed and were never on the market and never recreated to date that I have seen. I have had many offers to recreate the products but don’t have the heart in it to do so.
            I really had an understanding with wood and what I could do with it.
            I created a freestanding adult swing set that looks like a tree with branches and roots on each side to hold up a pergola roof structure…I was that good held by lag bolts with pin caps.

          5. LindaL,
            I was fortunate to have a boss that allowed me run with everything which he was very pleased with my results and gave me experience to understand further what I was doing and creating.
            I’m quite confident that he would have opened a different branch of his loghome and timberframe business had not government restrictions not interfered.
            I was crisscrossing timbers to look like a single structure along with carving and curving wood to structure the strength of limbs as well as bracing of a root structure.
            All these pieces were locking into place and take very few mechanical fasciners.
            Was alot of work but looked absolutely amazing as I only created two benches with half logs as backs and seats set at a comfortable angle.
            When my wife passed, a carpenter friend loved my swing set which I gave him. And the benches, I destroyed as it was special to my wife.
            I was always inventive and even when I built a few decks, they wanted the 2×6 seating that was around the deck deep and comfortable.

          6. Jojodog…thanks for sharing tbis piece of your history. I found it very fascinating. It’s interesting the impact a really good boss can have.

    1. Billy Alberta – Great find. I hadn’t checked Wattsupwiththat this weekend. Thanks for sharing.

    1. exactly roaddog . I made that point last year. Shutting everyone down and opening up again is not job creation.

    1. “ Astonishingly, obscenely, the powers that be responded to Kory’s impassioned testimony by turning away their faces. Democratic Party senators who sit on that Senate committee left the room rather than spend 10 minutes listening to this ICU doctor.”

      Their thought was that they would lose kickbacks and returns if the doctor’s suggestions were looked into further.

      1. If I can’t hold it, touch it, feel it, then it doesn’t exist for me and has NO value other than being esoteric.

  12. Blackie’s CTV News is excited about indian graves found at a cemetery. Graves at a cemetery is an obvious sign of genocide.

  13. Peter Schiff was on Tucker Carlson a few days ago discussing inflation. Yesterday, on his podcast, Schiff gets right back at it discussing the manipulated CPI numbers and how inflation is out of control. Be patient and grab a coffee if you want to know the truth about inflation. You get a free Jessie Smollett at the end.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSyYL-_RXHA

    Inflation is not transitory. It is caused by printing too much money. Schiff describes it as an involuntary tax that can only be fixed by turning off the printing presses and raising interest rates.

    1. “An expert on extremism and political radicalization says a disturbing display outside the British Columbia legislature this week reflects a troubling trend.”

      Jeezuz… The only thing they can find to be critical of in this whole 24 month TGF is a few gov’t liars hanged in effigy. That’s the real crime here. F’ing idiots…

      1. The “troubling trend” is that people are getting angrier, with just cause.
        But of course the “expert” labels an act of civil disobedience as being extremism and radicalism. Why not throw in “racist” for the trifecta of expert lying?

    1. LindaL, the very nature of a traitor prohibits them from responding to reason. Traitors are not reasonable people. OTOH, a good, swift kick to the scrot with size 11 steel-toed work boots may, possibly, catch their attention. I have a pair available…

  19. Care to comment folks:
    The following took place last week in the House of Commons:
    Here’s John Barlow, Agri Critic (C- Foothills AB)
    vs
    His ‘Wordship’ (L- Papineau)
    re: les patates:

    Watch “Big Potato problems” (2:27)
    https://youtu.be/m5HDM-LvhQE

    If you want, check the many exchanges on the topic on Hansard
    or Facebook videos–there were many puns re: the ‘red’ soil of P.E.I. etc.,
    They were trying to be witty but in the meantime the farmers are suffering.

    I think the above video was edited — Poopster lost his cool, by his “continuing to continue” rhetoric, in the other vids, imo. Here, in this video below, the above part was conveniently not included. Here’s more:

    Watch “Tory MP questions PM Trudeau on P.E.I. potato export ban” (4:24)
    https://youtu.be/A4UkPmaX9H4

    1. What gets left out about the potato ban is that it’s fresh potatoes only, processed (I.e. frozen) products are still fine to be exported. This means the big potato producers, Mccains and Cavendish, are still making money while the smaller guys are not. This means the smaller guys will likely lose their farms and guess who will be there to buy them up (at reduced price of course).

      It’s a deliberate transfer of the means of food production from individual growers to big producers.

      1. I agree, HE and his friends the Globalists are destroying every small business and they’ll leave no one out.

        I’m not from out there originally but when I lived in N.B. over 25 years ago, a good source, a farmer, told me that the McCains would normally buy from the locals all the potatoes they could get. Must be a new business model now, a globalist one.

        As you’ve said “It’s a deliberate transfer of the means of food production from individual growers to big producers”, yes, now they can starve the people to death much quicker this way.

        1. I agree, HE and his friends the Globalists are destroying every small business and they’ll leave no one out.

          That’s because all small business owners are tax cheats. Prinz Dummkopf told us so.

    2. I’m still waiting for somebody to point me to the link that shows the PEI potato industry is just as valuable as Alberta’s oil & gas.

      1. Potatos have value.
        I can’t eat or drink oil.
        But that’s beside the point.
        THEY are destroying our health, energy and now food.
        See a pattern forming ?

        The real question is , what are WE going to DO about it.

        1. “They” the “we” don’t care they are bribed to do nothing except take the bribes.

          P.S. I like how they blame that it’s the seed potatoes that are the problem. Wonder if it’s true?

        2. Absolutely, potatoes have value. No argument. However, when this identical topic came up in the not too distant past, the claim in the article was that PEI potatoes were just as valuable as Alberta oil. My response then, as it is now, is, “prove it”. I wanna see the math. And, just like I noted then, if this is actually so, then I want some good, ol’ fashioned PEI potato industry cash as a transfer payment to Alberta. The last I read, we were down around $220 billion. Large bills are fine.

          “When they came for Alberta’s oil, I said nothing. Now they’re here after my PEI potatoes…” Screw PEI and their potato issue. They’ll gleefully take my tax $$$ in the form of transfer payments every year, yet I haven’t heard a single peep from either their politicians or the people condemning the Baked Potato’s assault on our oil & gas industry. ‘Sides, there are thousands of acres of spuds grown within a few dozen miles of me. I’ll eat those.

          As to seeing a pattern form, for those of us on the political right that’s been carved in stone for years. Only now are the left slowly realizing that their efforts supporting the bastards in the hopes that the crocodile would eat them last are coming back to bite them in the ass. Too soon old, too late smart.

          2. Nancy, no argument.

            Thing is, Maverick needs to get their poop in a group & run a complete slate of candidates. Our ED didn’t have one this past election, among others from what I understand.

          3. DB, I absolutely understand your points.
            Oil, gas , natural resources need to be championed, for without them we wouldn’t be here.
            I am preaching to the choir here and indeed we all here are in an echo chamber of sorts.
            I should go back to TheHill.com and various Marxist sites , continue my efforts with terrorizing those ignorant leftist pigs with the truth.
            It gets tiring though, sometimes it’s nice to come in from the cold and hang out.

            However something needs to be done other than political.
            I have been doing a few of those things and I have more ideas in mind, mostly copying what others have done in the past.

          4. John Bosley:

            Yeah, sorry if I come across a bit hot sometimes. I’m passionate about this stuff & occasionally get on a roll.

            I could write a tome about things that piss me off about gov’t at all levels but transfer payments pick all the scabs.

          5. Not a problem DB.
            No need to be sorry as I get hot and passionate too on some topics close to my heart.
            Lost my ex-BIL yesterday from a massive stroke at age 55, he was in good shape but unfortunately took the 2 jabs.
            Same for my uncle in August from a very aggressive cancer, double jabbed, but he was overweight/old.
            So I am a bit pissed today.

            I was just thinking that it is good to get out of one’s comfort zone and go and confront these Totalitarian Fascist commies on other sites.
            What I meant was it is always nice to come back home among like minded souls for a respite and bounce ideas around.
            SDA is home.

      2. Libs are taking outside direction. The Commies all have to have their cut. The oil and gas industry here wasn’t as easy to control maybe.

    3. To paraphrase what his alleged father once said, the universe is unfolding as it should.

      As usual, he whines that he makes the effort to crap all over Canadians and we have the audacity to be ungrateful for it.

      1. “He whines that he makes the effort to crap all over Canadians and we have the audacity to be ungrateful for it.”

        Ha! Well said.

        Le snob is really ‘it’! He’s likely a billionaire by now having kissed up to the Globalists.

        Did you see how much New Zealand’s gal is now worth? In a year she’s at alledgedly, a cool ~ $25 million, up from $7 or $800,000. Yes, as daddy said, “the universe is unfolding as it should”… for them!

        They probably kiss the mirror a lot. I hate what those Commies have done to the free World.

  24. The bought and paid for media don’t even try to hide their bias anymore. A Toronto Star columnist will be running for the Ontario Liberals in the Spring election.

  25. BC cutting down trees for wood pellets.

    https://www-princegeorgecitizen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.princegeorgecitizen.com/amp/local-news/trees-harvested-for-biomass-energy-under-scrutiny-3740213?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#aoh=16393401752012&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.princegeorgecitizen.com%2Flocal-news%2Ftrees-harvested-for-biomass-energy-under-scrutiny-3740213

    I’m hoping they’ll cut down all their trees and cover the mountains with solar panels.

    1. Just…stupid.

      That said, if they did cut down all the trees, at least Albertans wouldn’t be breathing forest fire smoke all summer. Although I have zero faith in our legal system, I’d still like to see if a lawsuit for polluting Alberta’s skies year after year would have any traction.

    1. And here I thought that women turned me down for dates because they thought I was a jerk…..

    1. Oh, dear–we know that Prinz Dummkopf is naturally-born stupid, but does that imply he may possess an IQ above that of a doorknob as well? (slaps forehead) Oh, of course! How silly of me! He’s Canada’s resident expert on quantum computing, isn’t he?

  28. It nearly slipped my mind that today is the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first amateur radio satellite, OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio):

    https://www.inverse.com/science/60-oscar-1-presaged-the-cubesat-era

    Consider the time. It was 8 months after Yuri Gagarin’s flight, just over 2 months before John Glenn’s mission in Friendship 7, and nearly 7 months before Telstar.

    By the way, I think the oldest satellite that’s still active is AO-7, which was launched in 1974, though it appeared to have gone silent for more than 20 years after its batteries failed.

  29. Critical Racism Shortage a Result of Biden’s Supply Chain Disaster. (Never off shore your hatred.)

    BLM, with guidance from Jussie Smollett, will no doubt address this critical shortage of exclusively white hatred for minorities. Dare We Say “Duke LaCrosse?” Dare we say “Air Force Academy?”
    “If this had been an actual racist incident, which it was not, we are now marvelously prepared to deal with it.” )

    Those racist white bastards are out there; we just can’t find them.

    https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/12/11/howie-carr-about-that-umass-probe/

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