Collie Christmas Recommendations

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Usually by now we collies are at the window watching dad plow snow like in this picture.  Mom washed the drapes and cleaned the windows (they get lots of nose smudges for some reason!)In so we could watch our slave, er.. dad plow the driveway so he could get out to go to work to make sure we get fed! 🙂

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In front of the window is Trevor…..

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Alas, we have no snow on the ground so far…. so the old tractors rests and dad is thrilled for he hates snow!

So, we collies thought we would add a few Christmas suggestions to the Terhune and other books we mentioned earlier!

For Collie Lovers we suggest from the Terhune Memorial Society anything by the person who knows more about Terhune than anyone in our opinion;

Kristina Marshall.  We have her FOREVER FRIENDS and it is a thrilling and wonderful book about all the collies that lived at Sunnybank with the bloodlines coming out of Sunnybank!  This is a must have and just type in Terhune Memorial Society on Google to get more information or type in the book with Kristina Marshall’s name. 🙂 She also has several other book and all of them are GREAT!!!!

For Automobile Lovers;

A great read about the history of Henry Ford, his family through to the early 90’s, the Ford Company and the cars a excellent book is ;

FORD, THE MEN AND THE MACHINE by Robert Lacey

For the best biography about Henry Ford we have read and can recommend volume one of the three volume set by Nevins.  Volume one covers Henry Ford, his family life, Ford Motor Company, the cars and his other activities up to 1915.  It is fascinating to see the beginnings of the Ford Company and how they did all they could do to keep it going until it finally exploded into the beginning of the huge company it is now. This book is: FORD, THE TIMES, THE MAN, THE COMPANY

For Our fellow Footy Fans we recommend the following;

THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF MANCHESTER UNITED with the forward by Sir Bobby Charlton.  It is by the football team and various volumes go from their beginnings to 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012.  They are all the same except for the year they end.  This is one great book of one great team!

UNITED; THE FIRST 100 Years by Paul Joannou is the best history of the wonderful Magpies of Newcastle!!!!

For Movie Lovers we recommend;

THE QUIET MAN with John Wayne and Maureen O’ Hara

HIS GIRL FRIDAY with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant

For the men;

Any Three Stooges Films

For the Women;

Any movie with Katharine Hepburn

Hopefully this will help……

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I Ginger think the ultimate Christmas present is printing out this picture of me lifesize and putting it on your wall………

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We will soon pick up more of our hiking in the nature center soon….

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The Collie Recommend

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Usually by now we collies are at the window watching dad plow snow like in this picture.  Mom washed the drapes and cleaned the windows (they get lots of nose smudges for some reason!)In so we could watch our slave, er.. dad plow the driveway so he could get out to go to work to make sure we get fed! 🙂

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In front of the window is Trevor…..

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Alas, we have no snow on the ground so far…. so the old tractors rests and dad is thrilled for he hates snow!

So, we collies thought we would add a few Christmas suggestions to the Terhune and other books we mentioned earlier!

For Collie Lovers we suggest from the Terhune Memorial Society anything by the person who knows more about Terhune than anyone in our opinion;

Kristina Marshall.  We have her FOREVER FRIENDS and it is a thrilling and wonderful book about all the collies that lived at Sunnybank with the bloodlines coming out of Sunnybank!  This is a must have and just type in Terhune Memorial Society on Google to get more information or type in the book with Kristina Marshall’s name. 🙂 She also has several other book and all of them are GREAT!!!!

For Automobile Lovers;

A great read about the history of Henry Ford, his family through to the early 90’s, the Ford Company and the cars a excellent book is ;

FORD, THE MEN AND THE MACHINE by Robert Lacey

For the best biography about Henry Ford we have read and can recommend volume one of the three volume set by Nevins.  Volume one covers Henry Ford, his family life, Ford Motor Company, the cars and his other activities up to 1915.  It is fascinating to see the beginnings of the Ford Company and how they did all they could do to keep it going until it finally exploded into the beginning of the huge company it is now. This book is: FORD, THE TIMES, THE MAN, THE COMPANY

For Our fellow Footy Fans we recommend the following;

THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF MANCHESTER UNITED with the forward by Sir Bobby Charlton.  It is by the football team and various volumes go from their beginnings to 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012.  They are all the same except for the year they end.  This is one great book of one great team!

UNITED; THE FIRST 100 Years by Paul Joannou is the best history of the wonderful Magpies of Newcastle!!!!

For Movie Lovers we recommend;

THE QUIET MAN with John Wayne and Maureen O’ Hara

HIS GIRL FRIDAY with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant

For the men;

Any Three Stooges Films

For the Women;

Any movie with Katharine Hepburn

Hopefully this will help……

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I Ginger think the ultimate Christmas present is printing out this picture of me lifesize and putting it on your wall………

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Vote For Yours

Here is some You Tube Films on my favorite actor/actresses….

John Wayne

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Jimmy Stewart

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Bing Crosby

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Maureen O’Hara-The only one still alive!!!!

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Rosalind Russell

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Betty Grable

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Bah, vote for me!!! I am better than any of these washed up has beens!  I am, afterall, going to get my pawprint in the Hollywood walk of fame!  Muwahahahahah

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Contest!!!! The Golden Era!

Okay, so we here at the meadow have not much to offer in a contest other than fitting your blog into our next story with a link-back.  This post starts a new era of some experimentation in fun posts here at the meadow where we can interact a bit with you our friends in a fun way…. we may stumble and fail a few times but we will try to do this at least once a week…..

Those who know me well… probably regret it for they kn0w I have a stubborn fiery side to me also…. but those who know me well know I love old movies and actors……

So, the first one to correctly name all the following actors and actresses wins the contest….. 🙂

This is my favorite actor…… while he is know for his westerns my favorite movie with him.. in fact my favorite movie is the QUIET MAN.

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This actress is known for perhaps over acting and over expressing on the screen yet she makes me laugh and yet she she also can exude the greatness of what America was once was….

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She also starred in the QUIET MAN

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She also was not born in America…

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Okay, those are the two easy ones…. now we go to more obscure ones and good luck….

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These are my next two favorites… the one on the right should be easy… he is perhaps one of the greatest if not greatest actors ever.. Angels and Wings is all I can say about him……..  the girl on the left I love watching her for she took on some tough and unusual roles.  She wasnt the most glamorous, most sexy or any of that.. she was just more like the girl next door who, if you watched her in the films always left a impression on you from her acting as her films went on surprising you in how talented she was.  One of the few actresses to act all through her life in great roles and who was married once for a lifetime… quite a achievement in Hollywood. Hint for her is Friday!

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This one is easy….. The Pin Up Girl for the GI in WW2…… I loved her for her comedy, her dancing (Fred Astaire move over buddy….) and despite some of the critics she could act in some good films…. some of her films were throwaways for hollywood knew she was every guy’s dream so they pumped out film after film.. but in a good role she could act…

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Okay, you know who this is…. I love old jazz and swing and this guy could croon it….. his movies make me laugh…. and his movies had a lot of references to church, God and country in them, he could dance, act and sing and his song…. White Christmas is still one of my favorites……nothing like a snowy christmas eve sitting in the chair drinking a scotch by the glow of the christmas tree lights as this song plays softly in the background…..

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Okay, while dad is not looking I am putting this in here…. the greatest actress here at the Meadow is me… most popular, most beautiful, so name me too or you dont win! Make it Schnappy…….hehehehe

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