Carolers tonight at my aunt's house

6 years ago

Re, follow-up to my post under marilyn's thread, now that I see the bug has been fixed:

Just got back from Aunt's. The carolers didn’t get there until after 7pm., we thought it was suppose to be 6p or 6:30p.

It was a big group, one girl presented my aunt with a gift basket. They stayed on the front porch, didn’t come inside. Very nice singing, about five or six songs. Then I gave them the clementines and $10 in an envelope.

After they left we looked at the gift they gave her and it was bananas, clementines (ha), grapes, two cans of soup, a small loaf of bread, tea bags, Chex Mix, and I think some hot chocolate packets. Wasn’t that nice? So they probably didn’t need my clementines. Oh well.

Sure make it feel like Christmas now.

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happy2b…gw

6 years ago

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What a lovely thing to do! In my area, It sounds like your aunt was excited. I can book the chorus at the local high school to Christmas carol for a small fee. It is a nice way to surprise someone and the chorus raises some money. The chorus does a spectacular job.

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pudgeder
6 years ago
How nice!!

I miss Christmas caroling and carolers.
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schoolhouse_gwagain
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6 years ago
happy, I should check with our local high school about that. However, we can barely get their band to march in parades. But I'm going to remember your idea for next year.

I do recall a high school in another district advertise each year that they will serenade your sweetie or whomever for Valentine's Day.
hallngarden
6 years ago
I also miss carolers. Grew up in country and our little church group would go house to house singing. All the homes were about three miles apart so we would load in a car ,sing. Get back in car and go to next home. Only remember about three times carolers have been to our home in the past years.
schoolhouse_gwagain
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6 years ago
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Never had them when I was growing up in town, nor when I moved here in the country.

Once I had a friend who rented an upstairs apartment in a grand old house in a small community that had many Amish families as well as English. We were out walking one night before Christmas, and here came a group of Amish youths caroling house to house.

We asked if we could join them. We recognized the songs, but they were being sung in German! All we could do is hum along. It was beautiful. Now that small village is a tourist haven and oh so changed and most all the houses on the main street were bought up and converted to shops. You can barely drive around with all the people and tourist buses from the city. This town is called Berlin, Ohio, if anyone knows of it.
phoggie
6 years ago
I have such fond memories of Christmas caroling when I was a youngster. It warmed my heart to sing for older seniors and many of them shed tears listening to familiar Christmas songs.
summersrhythm_z6a
6 years ago
Are you down south somewhere? I have never heard anything like that up north around me, maybe it's too cold over here. What a wonderful experience!
seniorgal
6 years ago
schoolhouse---I do know of Berlin, Pronounced there as BERlin.

We lived quite a ways south of there, but when visiting relatives in the area we went to Berlin. Loved to shop at their fabric store, look around at their hardware store, and we admired the neat, pretty farms. Didn't enjoy driving on the roads with the buggies! We sometimes ate at a restaurant that served "family style." Oh, yes, I stocked up on spices and yeast which were sold in bulk.

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