Happy Holidays from Le Sheppard and TSGcreations!! Welcome to the Sheppard's Christmas Card full of Sheppard's photos and memories. To all our family, friends, partners in crime, customers, suppliers, associates, and all others ... Merry Christmas from Le, Mary Jane, and Maggie ... and from TSGcreations / TSGSPORTS / theSHEPPARDgroup! May the spirit of Christmas and the glory of the gift be with all of you. LOVE - the joy of giving ... LOVE - the blessing of the gift ... LOVE is those you LOVE and that is what HOME truly is.
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!
Our 2024 Sheppard Christmas Card ... Art by Maggie P Sheppard
Home
A great year with Maggie ...
Le's Health ... Le's employment (besides TSG) ... and so much more.
Le's Health ... After tons of doctor's visits, specialists, and medication,
but still we have no idea what is the issue is with my legs / feet that has been around since the summer of 2023. Still dealing with. In the meantime, I had carpal tunnel surgery to my left hand ... major emergency dental work ... and had colon surgery. Frustrating to live with pain.
Le's employment .. What a mess and disappointment. My time there ended due to the school district insisting I return to work after the colon surgery while my body was not ready to tackle the nightly routine. They forced me to resign. Not happy with how it was all handled and how they cheated me out of wages.Frustrating to live with pain.
And more ... A 2010 Mazda 3 was sold to us with a bad transmission. We had to spend another $3,300 without ANY help from the seller. Not happy with it all but we do have a nice car for Mary Jane to use..
But through all the trials and tribulations of 2024 ...
I am such a lucky man to have Mary Jane with me on this journey.
2022 ... We celebrate our house, our home, our Noel, and the LOVE that lives in this place. Merry Christmas. 2022 Sheppard TSG Christmas Card. With Noel and Santa at PetSmart. January 7, 2022. The backyard. Front lights. Card Photos. Noel barking at Daddy. Mary Jane Sheppard and her Noel. Christmas photos with Noel. Our Noel. Tree through the front window.
No time this year for writing my Christmas posts, so I will repeat this one from a year ago along with a beautiful piece of music — 12.19.17 ... Growing up there was always music around the holidays as there was all year round (being surrounded by talented artists and musicians). Whether at Granny Fulmer's or in our Sheppard home on the farm or up at Uncle John and Aunt Skip's in Lancaster - someone was always playing the piano (Uncle John, Dad, or one of us) and other instruments. Singing carols, hymns, and songs while harmonizing. At times there was even a string ensemble. Best for me was hearing Pop on the piano alone and playing for himself. Simple and heartfelt - my Father's and his brother's musical and artistic legacy. Pictured is a VERY young Bob Sheppard (Pop) on the left, his brother John Sheppard (the artist) at the piano, and my Mother's brother Roy Fulmer with 3 women sitting around the piano at Granny Fulmer's in Cold Point.
AND ... this from Abbey Road posted today. Beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=UfsbnewzIVE
I do miss my father - my friend. And another ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLd9PcZW5PQ
"But as Christmas is to give to love is to live
- this simple note is signed with love"
Le Sheppard's Christmas Song
"My Simple Gift"
1979 original version - MySimpleGift.htm
Video is the 2015 / 2020 rework.
1979 / © 2024 Le Sheppard
Christmas Music ... MerryPaulmas
Paul McCartney and Le Sheppard (ha - if only).
My 2007 tribute ...
Paul McCartney on guitar and vocals
(from Beatles Fan Club 45).
Me (Le Sheppard) on the rest.
Another 2008 McCartney tribute
rework is HERE / LINK ... ENJOY!
Fun 2009 Christmas Classics Mash
Through the clutter and noise,
take time to enjoy Christmas.
Written, Created and Photographed
by Le Sheppard
2009 / © 2024 Le Sheppard
Le Sheppard as Santa at WAWA 43 in Spring House, 1984
Le Sheppard painting and as Santa at WAWA 43 in Spring House, 1984
Le Sheppard and Mary Jane (Tettemer) Sheppard early Christmas' in Cranbury NJ and in Wrightstown PA ... Santa Le with Maggie P
"THE" Christmas Song
A MUSICAL HISTORY LESSON
Nat 'King' Cole - "The Christmas Song"
This is the very first recording of this classic
by Nat with just the trio. King Cole Trio recorded
in 1946 on June 14, 1946 in NYC.
This version was never
released during Cole's lifetime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdMSDg4tDCI
Later that same year (08.19.1946),
this version was recorded with the
a string section and a harpist and drums
as Not wanted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-RXKcc0sZs
In 1953 came the first version to feature a full orchestra
with Ralph Carmichael conducting. Recorded in mono.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1f8K3XH6c
Finally, in 1961 came the version most played nowadays
with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Stereo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-FqB1JfRLE
Every one is perfect.
Every year we Sheppards would gather and listen to the record of the old radio broadcast of Lionel Barrymore playing Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol" with Richard Hide narrating while using our imaginations to see the best version ever looking / staring at scary illustrations in a book Dad had. Fond memories - we all knew it by heart - and would quote it often ... LINK
As noted, Le's favorite Scrooge is from the book we looked at while listening to the Lionel Barrymore record as children in the Sheppard house . But as for the the rest (Alastair Sim, Magoo, Michael Caine in the wonderful musical "The Muppet Christmas Carol", and Albert Finney in the musical Scrooge), Alastair Sim is the favorite.
Christmas Movies
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Alastair Sim's A Christmas Carol (1951)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
The Spirit of Christmas (1953)
Albert Finney musical Scrooge (1970)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
The Polar Express (2004)
White Christmas (1954)
Going My Way (1944)
... and others.
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