NO ROOM IN THE INN redux (Gill Man Evicted!!!)

So, the other night Mrs. Rogue Evolent and I finally put up the Christmas tree (artificial) and all the other castle decorations...
including her "Nativity Set" over the fireplace-- on the mantle.

It doesn't actually look quite like this (above) but close enough for this blog ;) As I do every year (you'd think she would finally relent and let me have my way...sheeese! w'min!) I insert several non-Biblical characters into the background just to add some "figgy pudding" fun! Last year it was a small plastic Eugene the Jeep, another year it was Snoopy & Woodstock... you get the idea. The Missus always finds them and removes them with a "traditionalist" retort "they don't belong in the Bethlehem stable!"

This year I stuck in the background, fairly well obscured by donkey and angel- - the CREECH!!!!!! The Gill Man was there to worship Immanuel, the New Born King too! why? cause he's a "Creature" (of the Black Lagoon). I figured the famous poem by Cecil Frances Alexander "Maker of Heaven and Earth" would win the day in my argument with my "better half"

But HON!!!!! the words do say:
"All things bright and beautiful (ALL things, amphibians included!)

All creatures great and small (the Gill Man is not "a" creature but "the" Creature)

All things wise and wonderful (it is the most wonderful UNI monster flick)

The Lord God made them all (c'mon.... be green!)

This (above) is the Creech minimate that was in the creche scene.

My wife kicked him out as fast as ever before. She said: "Nope, no monsters in the stable"

I grumbled, but did not protest too much. I'm still hoping for that Doctor Who collection of minimates for my present under the tree... no need to upset "she who must be obeyed" :)

rogue