I learned that Cristopher Radko ornaments made after around 2005 are not really Radko! He sold his company (and the name) to a competitor out of necessity and had to sign some sort of a noncompete contract. There is now a nasty legal battle between them, apparently. His real, designed by him stuff is sold under the Ornament King brand!
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I know I have at least 1 music snow globe thing I bought from Lord and Taylor with his name on it. What year I got it is a whole nother question :). The music stopped playing a long time ago 
I love his ornaments. My DHâs work colleague had an entire Christmas tree decorated with Radko ornaments. I looked up Ornament King and it looks like he filed for bankruptcy. So sad.
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Not what I learned today, but what GD learned. GD is 12 weeks old today and rolled from her tummy to her back!
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Itâs all chasing her around from here! 
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Sounds tasty to me. Maybe when things calm down from the holidays and our fridge isnât so stuffed, I can buy some chia seeds and try making this.
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When we were first married I bought my wife several Radko ornaments each Christmas. I canât remember if it continued past 2005. They all came from a local store that ended up going out of business at some point, but I canât remember when. Between pets and kids we never put them on the tree, except for one. Itâs a sterling silver Santa ornament. Itâs been on our trees for decades.
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I learned that people in my neighborhood apparently donât watch the weather. The forecast last night was for high sustained winds with gusts close to 60mph. Today is trash and recycling day. Almost everyone put their barrels out last evening before the wind really picked up. This morning there was Christmas wrapping paper and Amazon boxes all over the place. I had to swerve through an obstacle course of recycling barrels in the street. Seriously?
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I learned that Radko went out of business. Our BFâs gifted us one for our tree in â99 to celebrate Y2K. Itâs on our tree every year.
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I learned about Radko ornaments⊠new to me.
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We have a couple of Radko ornaments received from best friends probably in the 1990s. Looks like they are def holding their value.
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Today I had a refresher course in Do Not Trust Meteorologists. Yesterday: weâll be getting 1.5â accumulation. Today: we are at 8â, and itâs still snowing. Unamused. 
I should add that areas all around us got 1.5â, but there was a band maybe 15 miles wide that âstalledâ over my county and kept dumping snow on us. Still unamused.
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Wow⊠8â is a lot of work on driveway (and sidewalk if you have them). Are you shovelling by hand?
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Yep! No driveway, but a parking area for our two vehicles. So, I had to shovel the walkway from the house to three steps that go to the parking area, then clean off the pickup and crossover, then shovel all of that out. Now the whole area is expecting 4 more inches tonight. Yay, winter! 
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