The Threshing Floor

Boycott Stores Who Don't Wish "Merry Christmas?" Seriously, Christians??

2009-11-26T22:48:00.000-05:00

So I stumbled across this link on Twitter, and other than being amused by the fact that it's being passed around the Christian Chirp website, which doesn't surprise me at all, I was really annoyed that there is an organization out there calling certain retailers "Naughty" and certain retailers "Nice" depending on whether they use the word "Christmas" or not in the stores or in their advertising.

Is this really possible?

2009-11-17T11:41:00.004-05:00

I'm speechless, honestly. I look though coupon circulars, but generally, the only things I clip are things we use on a regular basis. I generally don't buy prepared foods, or name brand items. Most of the time I still spend less on store brands compared with the coupon savings on name brand items...so why waste my time cutting, saving and sorting coupons - not to mention monitoring them

Daffodil

2009-11-16T16:39:00.000-05:00

This is Daffodil. He's a male pekin duck. He doesn't mind being called Daffodil. This is a picture of Daff frolicking in the pool only yesterday. This morning, we noticed he was limping quite badly. As of this afternoon, he's having great difficulty walking at all. We examined him, nothing appears broken, punctured or infected. The vet will see him in the morning. The vet says that