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A Christmas letter

Chicken lips photos, the new scroll saw, and the baby Jesus song

5 min

Rose takes photos of Grandma with the boys to mail to Chris, and everyone says 'chicken lips' for the camera. They brag about the new scroll saw they bought for about $600, which has already made around $250 in ornaments, and Kirby plays the harmonica. The boys sing a Sunday-school song about baby Jesus, then everyone says goodbye to Aunt Chris with plenty of 'I love you's.

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What Agnes says

Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.

Say, chicken lips. Chicken lips. Chicken whips. How about one more? You got the right one? This is mine, then I'll take one with yours. Haport. Cigar? Cigars are bad for you, aren't they? Let's just say it on the...

Chicken lips, you like that one. Cigar! You got your own? Yeah, this is mine. I'm going to take one with yours now. Now sit, wait. You can do yours on cigarettes. No, no. No, we're going to say something nice.

You know, you're the one that I tells grandma that cigarettes are bad for you. Say, um... Let's give you us. Let's give you us. Baskettios. Biscadios. Just do. You know, you got it, you know, you're doing one way and, you know.

All right.

I got one is pushing it and, you go, this, and just, you push the button, and it keeps going. You shut it off? Yep, I did. Let's see, what else can we tell Chris about? We can tell her about mom and dad's new saw we got.

We bought a scroll. I might have told you that when I talked to you the other day about a scroll saw so we can make all these little scroll saw. It cuts all those little wooden things that I showed you all the little ornaments and that little bear and everything.

And we're just having a heck of a good time with that. We paid over... I end up paying like about 600 bucks for it, but we've... This is my bear talking? It's a... He's very nice. Sometimes come down and see, okay?

No, they won't ruin it. Yeah, when I was going to say, and talking stuff. No, no, that's not that kind of saw. It's a special saw that cuts things out. It's not a saw of paint. And we've sold about $250 worth of stuff that we've cut off.

And we've got... And it's very nice, and it's very nice time. So, come in time sometimes. So we sold the cow. He was funny, but sometimes he does that. Why don't you sing, that's Kirby playing the harmonica now.

Why don't you sing the song that you have to sing for Sunday school? What song? Baby Jesus. I don't you do this? One major? Yeah. I don't remember this. I don't remember this. You got some loud, okay. Baby Jesus, baby, baby, baby, Christ, baby, baby, on the hay, baby, so little baby.

You forgot the second verse, kid. What, I don't know what it is. You'll never get his clothes on and stuff before. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's only five after that. Okay, well, Graham's getting nervous here, so I think we'll shut it off right now and we'll let the kids listen to it.

And we've got her tape recorder because it's got the mic to it, but hopefully by Christmas we'll get one, so we can record Christmas morning for you. Here, love to... Okay, everybody tell and tell Aunt Chris bye -bye.

Come on, Kirby. Say, bye -bye, Aunt Chris. Tell her bye -bye. Bye -bye. Bye -bye, Aunt Chris. Bye, Chris. Goodbye, Chris.

That's Todd. Bye, Chris. That's Curb. Bye, Chris, I love you.

See you later. I love you. Bye.