Month: December 2015
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A Super Christmas — Act III
The pageant accelerates in the third act with the shepherds leading the super heroes to the manger:
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A Super Christmas — Act II
This is the second part of the performance, and one of my favorites. That actor in the white beard — and with the long light brown hair you can just barely see from the back as he walks down the aisle — is my son. Plays a good old man, eh? This particular episode brought…
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A Super Christmas – Act I
As I mentioned yesterday, we are in the Christmas Season. So I’m going to finish out the year with a four-part series on Christmas. This is the pageant from Avondale United Methodist Church — a four-act pageant posted in four parts:
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O Come, All Ye Faithful
This is what everyone braving the cold, and possible rain/snow will be doing today as they attend Sunday services here in Kansas City. For no matter what the weather, we, the Faithful, are Joyful and Triumphant during the Christmas season. Below is the Avondale United Methodist Church Chime Choir playing O Come All Ye Faithful…
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Baking a memory — for Grammy Robords
I was baking cookies during a vacation day on Tuesday, when a shade of Cedar Sanderson gave me a wonderful idea. I wasn’t exactly baking cookies — these were more of a cooked cookie — and I was rolling the cookies into neat balls, admiring how they looked, when I realized I could do a…
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An A Capella Holiday Concert
Today is Christmas. So let me give you a Christmas concert. See the below program from the North Kansas City High School A Capella Choir’s holiday concert, so you can falfoll Merry Christmas!
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Only One More Sleep ‘Till Christmas
I did a post a few days ago on The Muppet Christmas Carol, what I consider one of the best retellings of Charles Dickens’ classic story. In that movie, one of the songs is One More Sleep ‘Till Christmas. Kermit, as Bob Cratchit, is singing on the way home from the office after closing up…
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#54: For the Beauty of the Earth
(Part of a series singing through the hymnbook I grew up with: Great Hymns of the Faith) 1 For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies, For the love with from our birth Over and around us lies: CHORUS Christ our God, to Thee we raise This our hymn of grateful…
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A Clean Kitchen
OKay, yesterday’s project was cleaning the kitchen. I spent pretty much an entire work day’s worth of time cleaning and rearranging everything in the kitchen. It is amazing all the stuff you acquire over time. That you cram into the empty corners that you don’t have. And how the way you arrange things doesn’t change…
At The Rainbow 