Merry Christmas from Scotland

As it nears the end of another year I feel very fortunate, my wife myself and my two boys are in good health and in full time employment. Lots of people have had it hard over the last year or so and it is often easy to forget how lucky we are even if it means getting up early each day and doing the usual frustrating round trip in heavy traffic to get to and fro from work.
We are away to life time friends tommorow for Christmas day so really looking forward to that. I guess we will all eat and drink a little too much but I suppose thats what celebrations are all about and a great opportunity to spend time with friends and family.
It would seem our hobby continues to grow each year and great to see the younger generation taking an interest in tractors etc.
Hope everyone has a great time and thank you to everyone who has responded to questions I have posted over the last year and to all you tractor guys I have met while visiting Canada and the USA when on vacation. Two great countries and wonderful people.
Thnaks again
Bill from Scotland

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Bill, Wish you would visit with us more, miss your pictures

Merry Christmas to you too.

My wife and I will be spending Christmas here at home alone because of the weather, but that's fine with me. Holiday with the family will just be postponed a bit. I do get a bit nostalgic, though.

I come from a small family and our few relatives were too far away to get together with for Christmas. This was back in the fifties, and we just didn't travel as much. So on Christmas eve we invited to old batchelor neighbors over, along with dad's batchelor brother who rode out from town with grandpa.

One of the batchelor neighbors never married cause he had to be the man of the farm at age 14 when his dad went to the mental institute in 1919. The other didn't marry cause his fiance died of the flu while he was in France during WW1 and it hurt him so bad he never looked for another. This was the only Christmas our guests had because they didn't have any family. My step-grandmother's religion didn't celebrate Christmas so she never would show up.

One of the batchelor neighbors would always bring a box of Royal Anne cherries for my sis and me and the other one would give us each fifty cents, which bought a lot of candy fifty years ago. I forget what dad's brother or grandpa gave us but it certainly wasn't candy cause grandpa was a dentist.

We'd open gifts after the big meal, but dad's brother was such a slow eater it seemed like he'd never get done.

It almost brings tears when I remember the happy look on the batchelor neighbor's faces when they opened their gifts, the only gifts they would receive for Christmas.

I didn't realize it at the time but my parents were going out of their way to do what christians should do, and that's helping others who are less fortunate than us. Merry Christmas. Jim

I will spend the remainder of the holiday's drinking as much beer as I can ingest, passing out, and coming to in my own filth. Then do it all again. Then, I will have to sober up and go back to work.

Hey, remember what christmas is all about is my motto.

Hi
Where are you from?
Bill

Merry Christmas to you. My ancestral line includes the Clan Keith.

I grew up in the late '30's and '40's at the end of the Great Depression. We didn't have an awful lot of cash money, but on the farm we were always able to grow or shoot enough to live fairly comfortably.

Not necessarily just at Christmas, my mother would frequently bake pies, cakes, or other goodies for people even worse off than we were, and have my sister and I hand deliver them. The look on the face, and "thank you" from people who maybe hadn't had a piece of pie in six months was priceless.

Ya'll have a Cool Yule and a Frantic First.

Merry Christmas!

frank

Aye Scotland, tiss a bonny wee place. It has given us bagpipes, haggis and men wearing skirts.Thankfully the quality single malt Scotch whiskeys more than make up for the shortcomings.

Merry Christmas. I'm about six drams into the good stuff at the moment.

My wifes family come from your great country and carry the Braidwood name. One of the Braidwood was a famous fire chief that lost live in a fire in London and they honored him with a statue in Scotland two years ago.
gitrib

Merry Christmas form Hilbert, Wisconsin!

As I look back at the past year or so and all the difficulties my wife and I have been through, I realize just how lucky I am to have her. We have been each other's rock when life blows up in our face. We've had some Very good moments together, and we've also had some very sad moments.

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

Donovan from Wisconsin

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to you, Bill, in Old Scotland, from us here in New Scotland (Nova Scotia).

Ron