Merry Christmas !

Once Upon A Time . . .

There were 5 little elves. Danny Elf, Donna Elf, Michael Elf, Janet Elf and David Elf. It was a cold blustery day and the snow was piling up outside. The 5 little elves were playing hookie from Santa's work shop. They opened up a bottle of Nancy's delicious home brewed blueberry wine. Wine and cheese and crackers and before they knew it, they were outside building a snowman when David Elf got this bright idea...
Cold and wet, they went inside to change their clothes and put on their cute little Elfy Caps. After warming up by the fireplace...(of course with another bottle of wine!!)... those mischievous little elves headed out to the barn to harass the reindeer...
Whew...that was a workout! Time for more refreshments...maybe a shot of tequila or two or a few...and then on to the city where the dance clubs are. Oh wait! Out there on the hillside...they hear some hip hop music...
Fat was thun! A shew more tots of fequila and they were on to the disco club.
The five little elves sure had a busy hookie day. It's almost time to load the sleigh.

It's December

Our long Thanksgiving weekend always seems too short. It was very enjoyable gathering with some family and friends. And as usual, stuffed ourselves until we almost didn't have any room for pie. NOT!
I started prepping the front acreage about three weeks ago. Trimming up low branches on the trees, collecting wood pallets and untangling Christmas lights. The weekend before Thanksgiving I placed the wood pallets around the front acreage and with Dan's help, started mounting the blow-up characters on them. The wood pallets worked out great for anchoring the blower motors.
Then on "black Friday", my sis and me got busy . . . turning it into "glowing Friday".


She (my sis) bugs me every year to wrap tree trunks. I usually give in to letting her wrap one or two. But this year she won over and wrapped and wrapped until she could barely stand up from the dizziness of walking around all those tree trunks.



I must say, it looks like a Christmas wonderland out there.




GOOD JOB JAN!!!







The weekend ended too soon. Now I have to put up the decorations inside the house by myself. I'm sure if I boo hoo enough, Dan will help with that.



See ya....I'm off for a cup of cocoa.

Food For Thought

All canned food has an expiration date.

Mr. & Mrs. T

In Memory:




These were pets, NOT Thanksgiving dinner! Mr T was a people friendly guy most of the time. If he heard voices that's were you would find him. He mostly liked women, and didn't like little people. He followed me around everywhere. I lost Mr. and Mrs. T last year to some wild animal attack. I wasn't home when it happened...I found a feather trail when I got home.


This "T" came to visit us one day, I got the picture and haven't seen her since.

1-2-3 KO door wins

I'm sure glad it's Saturday. I was beginning to think I might not live through Yesterday. (Friday the 13th)
I'm still feeling the effects today. Luckily I don't have any visible bruising. It was like I was in a "Three Stooges Movie". Walking down the sidewalk and BAM....the lab door flew open (caught by the wind) and I was stopped dead in my tracks. It slammed right into my face. Ouch!! Really knocked me for a loop! Now when I screw something up I can just say it's the door's fault. LOL

Veterans Day

I drove all the way to downtown Clearwater today to take care of some business at the courthouse, and was so surprised to find an empty parking lot. duh I don't know what I was thinking when I got sent on that errand, but I had a nice drive. It rained on and off, but it's always enjoyable to be able to view Tampa Bay driving across the Courtney Campbell ? I think that's the name of it. (US 60) The rain didn't stop all the people from wading in the water and doing some fishing from shore. And there was a lot of traffic and closed off streets for the Veterans Day Festivities that were going on.
Reflecting today about one of the boys that used to come over to play basketball in our driveway. Always made himself at home...even called me "mom" along with my sons. He went to school with my oldest son, swam on the high school swim team, and joined the Marines when he graduated. He was a good kid. I see him every now and then when I look at my home movies. His name was Jeremy...here's a link to a memorial about him: Jeremy

My Dad is a Veteran. I have a picture of him in his Army uniform, but I can't find the file I saved it in.

My Uncle Don was in the Navy.


Uncle Rip was in the Navy too.


My biological Dad was a WW2 Veteran. Army I can't find a picture of him.

God Bless America! God Bless ALL the Men and Women of the Military Past and Present!!

Litter Bugs

I just don't get it...I live down this country road...most of the traffic is of people that live out here. So why do I find fast food trash, beer cans & bottles, empty cigarette packs and more...thrown out on the side of the road??? Most of these litter bugs live here and are trashing our/their community!! So here's what I'm thinking of doing. Set up a surveillance camera and find out who these few rude people are. Save up their trash and go deliver it to them by dumping it out in their driveway and yard.
Sorry about that, I had to vent.

Firsts

Well, this is a first for me. I have enjoyed reading others blogs, but never had the guts to start one myself. I don't know what has come over me! This could be interesting.

The other day I saw an alligator in a cow field. Although it's not the first alligator I've ever seen, it is the first alligator I've seen across the street from my house!

(picture taken by my neighbor Marti)
I have lived here for eight years and although there is a pond over there - way out in the cow field across the street, this is the first alligator I have ever seen here. I immediately rushed to my yard and took a head count of my critters...thankfully they were all fine. I'll talk about the critters in the future I'm sure.

Well, that's it, my first blog about my first cow field alligator on the first of November.

Happy Autumn!