The False Ducks Blahg

      Here it is Christmas Day 2018 and I’m posting another quick blahg. I didn’t get that Christmas story about Billy finished but then I got super busy.  My dad is back in the hospital and didn’t get home for today so that’s a little depressing.  I don’t want to focus on that so instead I’m going to up some photos of the inside of my house.

      These are photos of our big fat Christmas tree which looks like its constantly falling over.  The trunk of the tree is at the back of the tree so it looks like it’s leaning.  This is probably the last real tree we’ll get from Moore’s Christmas Tree farm outside of Bloomfield.  The guy said this was his last year because the trees are getting too big and he didn’t do any pruning.  I believe it.  The rest of the photos are of are mantle display of Santas that keeps getting bigger every year and of all of our Nutcrackers and my wife’s wooden Nativity.  Again, click on any of the pictures below to get a larger close up in a new tab.

      I said this is going to be a quick Christmas blahg and the next blahg will be sometime in 2019 which, knowing me, doesn’t necessarily mean January.  I’m going to end this blahg with a quick memory of the first time I heard a particular song on the radio around Christmas.  It was probably seven or eight years ago and I was driving and listening to Warm 101.3 FM out of Syracuse, NY.  They play Christmas all throughout the month of December and it’s a good way to get into the holiday spirit. I was aware that there was a version of “Silent Night” recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1991 and I didn’t have it.  I had never heard it before because it had been released in 1991 on an obscure CD called “The Christmas Album…A Gift of Hope”.  Well, sure enough, Warm 101.3 played it and I was amazed by the vocal.  It was the elder Sinatra backed by Frank Sinatra Jr. on piano and a choir.  A failing voice that was tender and cracked but with emotion that almost made me cry.  Give it a listen:

 

     The other version was another take with just Bill Miller on the piano.  It would not be released until 2004 when it was a bonus track on “The Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection”.  Thirteen years between releases?  Of course, Sinatra had died by then, back in 1998, but we at least had an alternate take on the last song he ever recorded.  Here’s that version of Sinatra singing “Silent Night” backed by Bill Miller: 

     I hope you enjoyed that and that both versions added to your Christmas enjoyment.  Merry Christmas once again and you’ll hear from me again in 2019.  But in the words of another great song by Sinatra, who knows “Where or When.”

 

 

 

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