This year for my birthday, Bob A., my librarian boss from 1975-2005 - and still a very dear friend - gave me this THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Advent Calendar. THE ARRIVAL . . . Front cover . . . Back cover, before unwrapping . . . Back cover . . .
Following Jack Skellington, just as he does in the movie, is my favorite ghost dog, ZERO Oh, that we could all have our ghost dogs!
THE STAGING . . . As this Advent Calendar is much larger than 2022's A CHRISTMAS STORY Advent Calendar, I made a special place for it, not thinking how I was going to photograph each day without the picture being photobombed by Neal, any/all of the dogs, and/or myself . . . On the left is a pop-up book of the same movie, which Bob gave me many years ago (we have both been retired since 2005, and I know we were still working together when he gave me this). Disney wasn't kidding when it wrote, POP-UP Advent calendar . . . (Gipsy is cleaning toast crumbs off her favorite person. Not that there are any, but she's ever hopeful.) There is a booklet with a synopsis of the story, as well as the identificiation & explanation of each character . . . . . . altho why anyone would do this Advent Calendar without already knowing them, I don't know . . .

  OPENING THE CALENDAR