Merry Christmas

Hi All... !!! Before I forget, first, great season pics being selected for the heading on this site... !!! Secondly, want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years for 2022... !!! And for all our Jewish friends, hope you had a joyous Hanukkah Celebration this year... !!! And thanks to everyone who provided such invaluable info thru the year and for all the admin folks who kept it all straight !!! Merry Christmas Everyone !!!
As always, remember The Reason for the season.

To one and all regardless of the who where what's and when, fellows of the wheel Merry Christmas and a happy Covid free New Year.

Thank you DickO and oldwing guy...
Merry Christmas to all and remember The birth of baby Jesus is the reason for the season...
Dickie

To ALL forum members and their families, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and Many Many More!!
Just one more thingie... My family is getting together Saturday, Christmas Day, for dinner and they all wanted me to make my Jambalaya. I got the recipe from Justin Wilson's Cajun Cookbook which I ordered while he had his Cajun cooking show on the Food Network years ago. I loved watching and listening to him talk. So, I made the Jambalaya one time and now it's required... Oh Well. It's very good so I don't mind.

I like the Forum picture also.

Merry Christmas to all and enjoy the time with friends and relatives. I certainly intend to...LOL

Merry Christmas to all of the Silver Wing Forum members from Nova Scotia, the sticky out part of Canada.

May all of your travels be safe and enjoyable; and your Christmas time bring restful peace!

Mike

I add my good wishes for a Very Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my fellow riders; may all your wishes come true.

Health and Happiness!

Merry Christmas all.
May your beer fridge never be empty.

A Merry Christmas To All and my favorite Xmas story, Enjoy 

The Origin Story Of Rudolph The Red-Nose Reindeer...

I had no idea about the origin story of Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer! If you aren't familiar with it either, read below:

  As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. 
A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.
One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.
In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.
Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.
Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”

zrx212, That's a great story. One I never knew. If you don't mind I'd like to spread it around on Facebook.

Dale N. wrote:

zrx212, That's a great story. One I never knew. If you don't mind I'd like to spread it around on Facebook.

 Not at all, is a real/true story, Merry Xmas

Merry Christmas all here. It's been a rough last 20 months and things don't seem to be improving much but it will. Stay safe and Ride ON.

What a great "Rudolph" story... glad I took the time to read it... also read it to the wife for her to enjoy (she just got a case of good ol' covid but is doing reasonably well)... thanks to ya' "zrx212"!!!

No word on the tenth reindeer?

Dale N. wrote:

(Snip) My family is getting together Saturday, Christmas Day, for dinner and they all wanted me to make my Jambalaya. I got the recipe from Justin Wilson's Cajun Cookbook which I ordered while he had his Cajun cooking show on the Food Network years ago. I loved watching and listening to him talk. So, I made the Jambalaya one time and now it's required... 

Interesting, a Minnesota Jambalaya… Lake Wobegon Jambalaya…
What could be in Lake Wobegon Jambalaya? Wild rice, kielbasa, chicken thighs, ice shanty lake trout or whitefish, smoked venison… ?

Happy Holidays S-wingers , great forum Santa Cosmic

It's not exactly a Minnesota version although it is made in MN. It's a Hijacked Cajun version. i made it in a 22 quart kettle that was just over 2/3 full. Everybody got their fill and some took some home and my sons both kept some. But there was still enough left over that I gave a vacuum suck bag to my neighbor and still have enough for me to last into January...