hAPPY hAPPY hANUKAH

BRIEF HISTORY OF hANUKAH
In 168 BC, on a date corresponding approximately to December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, the Temple was dedicated to the worship of Zeus Olympius by order of Antiochus. An altar to Zeus was set up on the high altar. When Judas Maccabeus recaptured Jerusalem three years later, he had the Temple purged and a new altar put up in place of the desecrated one. The Temple was then rededicated to God with festivities that lasted eight days. According to Talmudic tradition, only one cruse of pure olive oil, sealed by the high priest and necessary for the rededicatory ritual, could be found, but that small quantity burned miraculously for eight days...AND NOW YOU KNOW THE REsT OF THE STORY .......
like i said before having cancer around the holidays has it's perks..the family bombarded me with gifts...and for the man who really has all that he needs ....got a little more stuff to play with...i will not bore you with the gifts i got.... but one from casey did not arrive on time but it is coming ..ready for this..the entire collection of the tv show HEE HAW..some of the greatest country and blue grass artist were on that show and the humor is what i now like to call CHEMO-HUMOR.....sitting for 6 hours with hee haw is gonna be a blast .........
again i hope your day had a sunrise and a sunset (we had tons of fog also) ..... because if you think about it for a minute that's what we should be shooting for as many sunrises and sunsets as possible (and a few rainbows in between)
peace on earth...hope santa was as good to you as he was to me
and we hope mrs.claus will get what she wants when santa gets home (ok i mean that santa is safe)..geezz

tom"hee haw"cheffo..all my love to my brooklyn roots this holiday (we are spread out all over this land) but live together in our hearts......love you guys