Jolly New Year Monday!

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I’m going to beg your forgiveness on this New Year’s Day Monday, for this is a redux of a post I wrote on the Monday just before the calendar changed to 2021!  I’ve made a few updates and added some cartoons,  and obviously we are no longer in lockdown due to the pandemic as we were in December 2020, but otherwise … well, there’s a saying that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”, and we’re pretty much still the same as we were three years ago!  Apologies for a redux of a Jolly Monday post, but I am completely exhausted and brain-dead from all this holiday stuff and simply cannot do any more tonight!

So, did you all have a nice holiday?  I know many of you, especially in the UK where very strict lockdown regulations are in place, missed spending the holiday with your families or friends, but hopefully by next holiday season things will be vastly improved.

So, if it’s Monday it must be time for some humour to start the week out, right?  Grab a snack – Joyful wouldn’t let me in the kitchen, so I have no idea what she’s cooked up this morning – and we’ll go in search of a few chuckles.

tea              baconJollys girlfriend Joyful

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The secret to a longer life?  Math!

Kane_TanakaI found this both interesting and the last bit highly humorous.

The world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, turns 118 on Saturday.  She was born in 1903, and lives in a nursing home in Japan, where she wakes up at 6 a.m and enjoys playing board games. Her secrets to longevity: eating good food and practicing math.

Practicing math???  Whoa … I better stop using the calculator on my phone to add 2+2 and start using my noggin a bit more, yes?

Update:  Ms. Tanaka died in April 2022 at the age of 119 years, 107 days.  There is a Wikipedia page about her, if you’d like to check it out.

Uh-oh Santa … should’a stuck with the reindeer!

An unidentified Northern California man thought it would be cool to dress as Santa Claus and deliver candy canes to children in his community … via a motorized parachute.  Neighbors say he flies around the neighborhood often in his vehicle, but this time there was a bit of a hitch … ol’ Santa got entangled in a set of electrical wires!

He flew into a maze of power lines and wound up suspended in them, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.

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The man, who wasn’t identified, was not injured. Video from the rescue shows the red-white-and-blue aircraft dangling overhead as Santa sat fastened to the pilot seat. Neighbors watched from the ground as crews worked.

Santa-wires-2Power was shut off during the rescue to about 200 customers in the Rio Linda area, according to Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District spokesman Chris Vestal.

“It’s unfortunate, but we all need to remember that there’s still a lot of good out in the world, there are people doing good things and to look at the brightness of the holiday season.”

“W/o a scratch & full of good cheer we made sure Old St. Nick will use his reindeer when he sees you later this year,” the fire department said in a tweet after the incident.

So, how about some New Year’s themed ‘toons?

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And here are a few new ones I added this year …

And, I have a few cute pictures to share with you …

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The highlight of my life the past month or so has been a pair of grey squirrels that appear every morning outside my ‘office’ (kitchen table where I write this blog) window.  After a couple of days watching their antics, I started putting a handful of unsalted, unshelled peanuts out every morning for them, which they take great joy in.  Then, wanting to give them a more nutritious diet, I did some research and ordered a bag of “Critter Crunch” from the Audubon Society, which they also enjoy, but they still prefer the peanuts.  They hop all around the patio, jump from the wrought iron rocking chair to the top of the grill, to the handlebars of Miss Goose’s bicycle!  They are beginning to trust me a bit more, I think, and I smile every time I see them through my ‘window on the world’.  Their latest antic is teasing one of our cats, Pandi.  If she is sitting in the windowsill, they jump up on the outside window ledge and … I swear I think they laugh at her!  Her tail twitches, then quivers, she bats at the window, and the squirrels just sit there.  It is, truly, the highlight of my day.  So, I went in search of a cute squirrel video for this week’s Jolly Monday …

Update:  The video I originally used in 2020 is no longer available, so I replaced it with this one …

Well, my friends, it’s that time … time for us all to be about our appointed chores.  But take heart … it’s a short week!  Meanwhile, as you go about your week, please take time to lend a helping hand wherever you can, and share those gorgeous smiles with people who look like they need one.  Have a safe and happy week.  Love ‘n hugs from Filosofa, Jolly and Joyful!

Can’t forget our bacon-lover fwiends!!!

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53 thoughts on “Jolly New Year Monday!”

    • I’m so glad you found some laughs here on Jolly Monday, even if it was a repeat! Happy New Year, dear friend! The year ahead may be rocky, but with friends like you and my entire blogging family, I’ll get through it!

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    • Yes, it was fortuitous! Otherwise, I might have welcomed in the New Year with a bit of my snark! All the best to you, your hubby, and T, as well. I hope some wonderful things are in store for you all this coming year!

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  8. Thank you for the laughs, Jill, and a good new year to you. I love squirrels, they are so clever and playful, but we don’t have any in the garden. In Denmark we have the red ones that are prevalent in conifer areas, which we don’t have in our garden. But, we have hedgehogs. 😉

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    • I’m so glad you found something to bring a chuckle or a laugh here! Awww … sad that you don’t have squirrels … I simply love watching them (except when they’re digging up the flower seeds I plant every spring!). Hedgehogs are cute too, though!

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  9. I smiled, laughed and my heart Aww’ed over the cute pics. Thanks, dear friend! Hugs and love to you for the New Year! ❤ ❤ Oh and the Baby blues comic, I did end up averaging reading one book a week this year! 🙂 61 books total.

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    • WHOA … good on you, my friend, for your reading record! I must try harder … I spend entirely too much time on this here blog! I’m glad to have brought smiles ‘n laughs on this dark, cold, dreary Monday! 🥰

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    • WOW … it must be wicked quiet where you are. My neighborhood (a first-ring neighborhood right outside of Buffalo) was SICK with fireworks. Started right after the Bills win & continued until around 1 am. I think if we hadn’t had freezing rain/snow mix, they probably would have gone all night. I didn’t actually get to sleep until 3 am. I now hate New Year’s Eve, along with July 4 & most of these partying holidays. Happy New Year, my Canadian friend.

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      • Happy Year to you too, saq. Most Canadians are not alliwed to do fireworjs privately without a .iicence. Been that way for a long long time. And it’s much too cold tp party outside too.
        Sorry to hear life is so obtrusive down there. Not sure what else to say. I can sleep anytime I want.

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        • I remember when you weren’t allowed to blow off fireworks without a license. I remember when you had to drive to Florida to get them; then the closest state was Pennsylvania. My ex-husband used to buy them from a old Mafia dude who had an attached room built onto his garage, in a suburb right outside of Buffalo here, & it was like walking into a fireworks superstore. You could get whatever you wanted. Totally illegal, of course. He had was into other illegal things as well, they all are. My husband had a thing for M-80’s. He’d light one & hold it until the flame was almost burnt to the bomb & then throw it so it went off in the air, instead on on the ground, so it was a bigger bang. I was always frightened that the flame would jump the wick & it would go off while he was holding it & he’d lose his fingers. There was a lot of stress in those days.

          It’s only been since 2014 that ground-based fireworks were legalized here in NY; all other fireworks are against the law but of course, they’re legal in PA & that’s a short drive away. & I am sure you can get them on the black market; you can get anything you want there. That old Mafia dude we used to know is long gone but his son or nephew or someone has surely taken over the business; that’s how it works.

          I used to live way out in the country & I would still if I could. But I don’t have a car & I have health issues that mean I need to stay near my support system. This is life.

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          • I need to ask — do fireworks not start fires anymore? When I was a kid fireworks were legal, we even had a Firecracker Day. Anyone could do fireworks! But there were so many fires the Fire Department could not get to them all. People died. That was when a ban was put on them, with hefty fines. City governments mostly are now responsible for fireworks displays.
            I cannot imagine living where anyone can do fireworks.

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