Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TT0T) bloghop. An exercise in the awareness of the capacity to be grateful for shit in our lifes, participating in this bloghop is, when you think about it, exercising one of the most critical mental/physical/emotional capacities inherent (and woefully under-used) in people, that of allowing for additional perspectives on the world around us and the people who make it up.
1) Phyllis
2) Una (demonstrating an impeccable approach to life, i.e. engage the world without reservation)
3) the Wakefield Doctrine (sine qua non, y’all sine qua non)
4) only 17 days before the Onset of Summer (note to newer Hostinae, cai and KnitCat …the days get longer! light is surely the mother of warm)
5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
6) Christmas Light-shouting!! We all have one in our neighborhood. And, yes, to our more erudite students of the Wakefield Doctrine* (we’re looking at you, Mimi, Denise, Cynthia…Misky) yes! for the most part this kind of outdoor display does suggest a scottian homeowner, a light-shouter.
7) ok, if you insist! below is a video (which we all know means it must be true) of our seasonal lighting display, affectionately referred to as Area 51
8) something, something
9) oh, yeah! Grat for both Dyanne and Lisa for connecting up with this here bloghop here, last week(ish)
10) Secret Rule 1.3. Which is, of course, that Rule that states, in part, “…the completion of three-quarters (or seven-sixths) of a TT0T list is valid as a Grat on self-same list…traditionally in the Number 10 position”
ibid, op.cit. Wakefield Doctrine 2009-2029 (shoutout to Andrew our newest Host for his independent discovery of SR 1.3 (Hey! Andrew! There remains an entire Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) that is available to hosts, hostinae and anyone reading a TToT with a hankerin’ for stirring things up)
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very nice light show – thank you
Illuminating tour of lights. :)
thanks, cai… fun (in a non-traditional way
3. Et tu, sine qua non mea! Or back atcha as some might say.
6. Loved the light show tour. No lights on my house; we leave for Bogotá on Saturday, and if the neighbours want to see lights through their net curtains, they’ll have to string up their own houses (which they do as if competing with Las Vegas).
as if competing with Las Vegas
aka (Christmas Light-shouting!!!!!) lol
Area 51 is lovely. We have a few light strings in our front window, but haven’t really tackled the outdoor lighting yet this year.
it’s fun… just strings of battery operated color (and flashing) LED light… in the middle of the woods ;p
Our neighborhood light-shouter had the unfortunate bad, well, shall we say luck although I don’t believe in it, to fall off his roof a few years ago. We have some nice displays, but nothing over the top any longer in this immediate area.
I really like your Area 51.
thanks!
ayiiee on the fall (fell from the roof Xmas Eve in 1996… hey! thanks, reminds me of a great Ola story! She was about six years old and I got to be alpha (in the pack)… well, three days after the fall I came back home from the hospital and Ola was not happy! lol SHe never left my side for weeks but I got the cold shoulder from her for about seven days. lol