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Dec 25, 2022

Happy Holidays






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Happy Holidays,

Merry XMAS and

Happy Hanukkah

 2 Hours of The Best Classic Christmas Songs (with fireplace and beautiful background) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7M4oU2HdFE&ab_channel=%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%A1 


Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg&ab_channel=Trans-SiberianOrchestra 

 


O Come All Ye Faithful - Epic Flash Mob Carol, The Five Strings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2c9yptr4U&ab_channel=TheFiveStrings 

 


Trans-Siberian Orchestra final finale! 11/17/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykz8E-jtJ5o&ab_channel=BobPfeiffer 

 


Trans-Siberian Orchestra Complete show Multi-cam Boston MA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWck-kFtNXI&ab_channel=squintyt4e 

 


Carol of the bells Trans Siberian Orchestra live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNNwQ85xoxU&ab_channel=GoreMessii 

 


Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Concert at Universal Studios 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_tq3EBKSA&ab_channel=RixFlix 

 


The Piano Guys Christmas Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwZj4_DxYU&ab_channel=ThePianoGuys-Topic 




Happy Holidays, Merry XMAS and Happy Hanukkah






Vietnam XMAS Eve 1969

Twas the Night Before Christmas,
When all through the House
The Creatures were stirring
and shooting up the place

On Christmas Eve 1969 I arrived in Vietnam. It was gently raining. A very large hill loomed inland over the Danang airport swathed in bright perimeter lights like a halo in the mist. It was impressive and beautiful and frightening. There was a great deal of firing and flares from the hill and some of the new guys thought we were under attack. 

We ran into a large building, one Marine shouted, "They're really getting hit up there. Take cover!"

I moved to the Hill - Hill 327 to MASS-3 a month later and found out that there had been no attack. It was simply a "lighting it up" impromptu firex to celebrate Christmas. Of course no one would openly admit that. You could fire at noises or sounds, so the troops were firing on Christmas eve at numerous noises and sounds.

Nice and impressive fireworks.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.


Photos source: 1970 Vietnam
http://peerintothepast.tumblr.com/post/71201382953/usmc-merry-christmas-vietnam-war-1970-via-seal


Happy Holidays, Merry XMAS and Happy Hanukkah

More photos and scoop at  

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Semper Fi

Craig Hullinger

Happy Holidays, Merry XMAS and Happy Hanukkah

Semper Fi

Our Chistmas Letter

http://xmashullinger.blogspot.com/







I made this sign and hung it in the Radio Repair shack at Chu Lai in 1966-67. It kind of encapsulates the sense of the times. 

Semper Fi

Daniel Cooper





Thanks to Albert Linsenmeyer 
MPHS Jan 66 for submitting these.



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Dec 11, 2022

Mysterious Travel by Taffy Cannon

 


Our classmate author Taffy Cannon MPHS 66 has made her books available as ebooks for the first time. Great novels. I especially recommend "Class Reunions are Murder", with characters who strongly remind me of our classmates.


https://taffycannon.com/


From Her Website


FICTION

Mysterious Travels
Guns and Roses
Murder Will Travel
Murder Pans Out
Fall Into Death
Keys to Death

California Crime
Open Season on Lawyers
Paradise Lost
Blood Matters

Nan Robinson Mysteries
A Pocketful of Karma
Tangled Roots
Class Reunions are Murder

Other Fiction
Convictions
Tumbleweed Murders
Mississippi Treasure Hunt (Young Adult)
Beat Slay Love
Stop the World



ESSAYS

Special People

Two Thirds of a Lifetime

Remembering Bill Cannon

Outed

The Mystery Class of 1993

Personal Experiences

When I Was on Jeopardy!

Button, Button, Who’s Got My Button?

A Trunk in the Attic

Left Luggage

Preparing to Flee

Forget Me Not

Office Supplies Anonymous

Decoration Day

Events

The St. Patrick’s Party, an Accidental Tradition

The Golden Age of Mystery Bookstores

The Down Home, Coronavirus, Victory Garden Blues

The Pandemic Trickster

Places

A Quilt Stitched with Teardrops

Take Me to the Fair

Getting on the Bus One More Time

The Broken Bus, Dead of Night, Gone to Prison Blues

TSA, the Kubotan, and Me

Remembrance of Foliage Past

The Alaska Taxidermy Shop


ABOUT TAFFY

Cliff’s Notes version:

Photo: Adventures by the Book

Taffy Cannon is the author of fourteen mysteries, a Academy-Award-nominated short film, Convictions: A Novel of the Sixties, and two Caregiving manuals. She lives and gardens in Southern California with her husband, and was named Carlsbad Citizen of the Year for service to her local library.

Unabridged:

Taffy Cannon grew up in Chicago, graduated from Duke University in North Carolina, then passed through Texas on her way to Southern California, where she has felt entirely at home for a good long while.

Much of her career has been spent writing crime fiction in which a great many people die. Her mysteries include both series and standalones. She also wrote an Academy Award-nominated short film and Convictions: A Novel of the Sixties. Her books have been finalists for Best Novel in the Agatha, Macavity, and Left Coast Crime Western Regional Awards. Blood Matters was the San Diego Book Awards Best Mystery/Thriller.

Taffy’s Mysterious Travels series begins on a tour of the History and Gardens of Virginia, Guns and Roses. Additional travel mysteries visit Sonoma Wine Country in Murder Will Travel, California Gold Rush country in Murder Pans Out, New England Autumn in Fall Into Death, and the Florida Keys in Keys to Death.

As a Southern California transplant, she has set some of her favorite stand-alone crime fiction along the SoCal coast.

In Open Season on Lawyers, somebody is killing the sleazy lawyers of Los Angeles. (In the beginning, hardly anybody even noticed.) Robbery-Homicide Detective Joanna Davis digs into her own past as the killer focuses on his own adversary, as well as ethically-challenged lawyers.

Paradise Lost examines extreme intelligence and lives of extreme LA privilege. An actress and the college student daughter of Hollywood entertainment attorneys are snatched from a Santa Barbara health spa, with echoes of Leopold and Loeb.

Blood Matters moves inside the world of adoption, with a murder set in Rancho Santa Fe. The eccentric collector and driving force behind San Diego’s Adoption Central is found bludgeoned to death by a statuette of Michael Jackson. Detective Roxanne Prescott from Guns and Roses is on the job.

Taffy’s Nan Robinson series features an attorney/investigator for the California State Bar. In A Pocketful of Karma, Nan’s former secretary goes missing, a trail leading to the Past Lives Institute in Malibu.

Nan’s sister Julie is at the heart of Tangled Roots, set in the flower-growing industry of the SoCal beach town of Floritas. And it turns out that Class Reunions are Murder, when Nan goes back to her Midwestern 20th high school reunion and the class bad girl doesn’t make it through the party.

Taffy also completed The Tumbleweed Murders, a Claire Sharples Botanical Mystery begun by her friend and colleague, Rebecca Rothenberg, who died in 1998. She was one of the five authors of Beat, Slay, Love, a deadly sendup of TV cooking competitions, and co-edited Stop the World, a flash collection from the first months of the pandemic.

She moved into nonfiction after learning distance caregiving on the fly during her younger brother’s final illness, culminating in SibCare: the Trip You Never Planned to Take. Caregiving 101 expands upon the theme in a practical handbook touching on all aspects of this challenging and often unexpected occupation.

Taffy has worked a multitude of odd jobs from carnival barker to professional feminist, with intermediate stops at substitute teacher, roving welfare worker, and office temp everything. She does, however, intend her epitaph to read: “She Never Waitressed.”  She once correctly wagered everything on a Women Writers Daily Double as a Jeopardy! contestant.

Taffy lives in a frost-free part of coastal Southern California and is a passionate if somewhat haphazard gardener. She planted a full-on vegetable garden from seed in the first spring of the pandemic, losing everything but the zucchini to various creatures. (She prefers growing flowers anyway.)

Libraries have been an integral part of her life since before she started kindergarten, when her church library kept children’s books in glass cabinets and overdue fines were a penny a week.

As an adult, she has spent decades as a leader of Library Friends groups, primarily at the Carlsbad City Library, where the biggest perk of volunteering has been managing the Friends Bookstore since the 20th Century. For this and other community service, she was named Carlsbad Citizen of the Year. A while back, she received the President’s Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award for over 4000 hours of community service. Thousands more have followed, nearly all pleasurable.

If she had it to do again, Taffy would move to California sooner, but otherwise it’s been a splendid life so far.



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Nov 3, 2022

Difference etween Gators and Crocs

  


Contributed by Marie Butie. Florida is the only place in the world that has both alligators and crocodiles.

Plus our friend Jim Nesci has moved to Florida and brought Bubba, his very neat alligator. More about Bubba and Jim at https://coldbloodedcreatures.com/ 

We are Number One! 



More scoop on Florida Gators at https://gatorsfl.blogspot.com/


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Oct 29, 2022

Halloween! - Guess Who?

 


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Sue Wiggins, MPHS Jan 66













Sandy Schuessler Wright - MPHS Jan 66 - Looking Good! 







John Meeks MPHS Jan 66 is terrified.  This is on Willow street in Old Town in Chicago. 

There were two of those things at that house. Must have been twelve feet tall.



Peace and Love



Taffy Cannon MPHS 1966





It was a fun day at church.  Half the folks dressed up, including the minister.  Here is my wife and I with "the other man".

Will Hepburn MPHS 66



Judy, these photos never go away.

____

Thanks, Craig.  I needed the laugh.  Five weeks post Hurricane Ian, and I still don't look quite that bad.  

I also needed the reminder of happier days in the past and yet to come -- that photo was from our first year here in Fort Myers when we attended ZombieCon downtown, just a short walk from our condo.  There's a different kind of frightful sight downtown today, but we'll come back.  Hopefully it won't take as long as it has taken for the people in New Jersey to recover from Sandy...talk about a horror story!

Hope everyone is well.  Don't eat all your grandchildren's candy...

Judy Halligan Willingham





HAHAHAHAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Marie Buti

Anyone else have terrifying photos they wish to share? Send them to craighullinger@gmail.com and I will post them on this blog.

Happy Halloween




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