I Found It - Axel's Christmas!

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT!

My parents, Mom really, had this wacky old vinyl of Axel's Night Before Christmas. Now, Axel was a silly Scandoohovian character played by Clellan Card from the early radio and TV years, the old WCCO stuff.

Well, I found out my mom sadly sold that album, and thus I have been on a quest to find them. I still am looking for the actual vinyl pressing, but this day any digital version is fine by me. Well, last year I found the script to Axel's Night Before Christmas. I donning my memory cap created my own version of the radio play, including silly sound effects and voices. I then uploaded it to youtube.

Well, today, as I was surfing the web, I found that somebody has actually posted the 1938 Axel's Night Before Christmas on Youtube! It's wonderful to hear that silly show again!

So, here it is, my early pre-season gift to you.

Clellan Card as Axel, performing Axel's Night Before Christmas.

Well, what do you think, pretty great huh!

Now, for comparisons sake, here is my version. Please consider that I had the script, but I hadn't heard the true version in 20 plus years.

Happy Holidays everybody!

Back of the Cupboard Christmas Cookies? YA SURE!

So, your sitting there reading this and thinking, man o man do I want Christmas cookies, but I am ( Blank - You fill in the reason) to make them.  Most of the time we think we need super special stuff to make good foods.

Simple sugar cookies do not.  I bet dollars to doughnuts that you right now have the items needed to make sugar cookies.

How do I turn them into something a little extra special?  If you're like me, then you may still have leftover Halloween candy sitting in a cupboard.  I had a box of Gum Drops, Hot Tomalies,  and a container of jelly beans.

The Boy and I made the dough, and cut the cookies and we used some of the candies as drops on the top, I cut the jelly beans in half and made buttons for the ginger bread man cookies, and even hid jelly beans in side of the cookie dough!

I am not going to post a recipe of Sugar Cookies, for you should have at least one cook book that give you a version, but if not, I will post a link to MY FAVORITE COOK BOOK EVER!