by Bill Roushey | Dec 17, 2020 | Holiday
Here is a suggestion anyone attempting to eliminate snacks from your diet after 6 p.m. on the days leading up to the Christmas holiday. One common decoration found in many homes is a nativity set featuring Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus lying in a manger, and a host of...
by Bill Roushey | Dec 24, 2019 | Christmas stories, Holiday, Uncategorized
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four calling birds. An old English version of the song refers to them as “colly” birds. Colly, refers to something covered with coal dust, something completely black. After taking a quick tour of...
by Bill Roushey | Dec 18, 2019 | Christmas stories, Holiday, Uncategorized
The lyrics of the song continue…”On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three French hens.” Some suggest this is a theological reference to three virtues of the Christian faith: Faith, Hope and Charity. From an animal husbandry...
by Bill Roushey | Dec 10, 2019 | Christmas stories, Holiday, Uncategorized
“On the second day of Christmas my true love gave me two turtle doves.” From what I’ve read, the term turtle dove refers to a group of old world doves that includes ringed doves and mourning doves. In literature they are associated with innocence,...
by Bill Roushey | Dec 7, 2019 | Christmas stories, Holiday, Uncategorized
More than likely you are familiar with the song, “The twelve days of Christmas.” This Christmas season I search for a deeper, more personal meaning to the lyrics of this song.tree.” The first gift my true love gave to me was a partridge in a pear...