I’ve Lost My Mind…

Dogs woke me up with rousing barking this morning at 7:30 a.m. You all know how I am, I walk into walls at that time of the morning… I stumbled to the back door to let them out and saw this:

So naturally I had to go get my camera and walk outside to take a photo to share with you all.  I came back in, turned on the computer went to check the weather and this is what I saw:

This is just so not right.  And I not only went out in this to take a picture to share with you all, I went out in a pair of sweatpants, my house shoes and a sweatshirt I threw on so’s not to scare the cows  into early labor, I am trying to type this with this:

That is not my ash cup nor my cigarettes but was not awake enough to crop them out but, yep, those are my fingers taped together.  I smashed them day before yesterday, went to the doc yesterday and nothing is broken but they taped them this way because they weren’t sure until they got the x-ray report yesterday.  I can go to bandaids instead of this bulky bandage when I clean them later but let me tell you it is a bitch trying to type like this.  Talk about being a hunt and pecker…

Just wanted to let you all know how much I loved you… and I will really show you how much I love you by taking pictures of my fingers when I re-dress  them later… after I get up again…

I’ve fed the critters, brought in a load of wood, stoked the fire and now I’m going back to bed.

Couldn’t Stand It…

I received this in an e-mail today and decided, after I got up off the floor laughing that I had to share with you all… I have had days where I have felt this way….   And today was one, how about you?

I’m Sure You’ve Heard Of A Three Dog Night…

Generally one thinks of a very, very cold night… the kind where you want at least three dogs in the bed with you to help keep you warm.  Bro found a new variation on a three dog night this evening…

He was kicked back in the recliner and had Chloe and Suess on either side.  Spud decided he wanted to be in on the napping with the girls and jumped from the floor, bam, right into Bro’s lap.  Without touching Bro’s arm or Chloe, the girl nearest to the camera.  After singing soprano for a bit, Bro got Spud to settle down and he then had warmth on either side and in the middle, too. 

Oh and it’s heading to 15 F. here tonight.  I wanna go to Phoenix  or Florida or anywhere that is over freezing. And that’s my whine for tonight.

Am I Lucky, Or What….

 

When you get to wake up to sunrises like this it makes almost makes me want to get up to look outside.    Some of the cow that are just outside the back door.  The cows that are getting ready to calve or have just recently calved are in the pasture right out the back yard.

My cousin’s 38 year old son came by and he and a fellow that works with him built a snowman in the front yard.

Oscar had never built a snowman before.  I wish my breath hadn’t fogged up this shot and I hope Oscar went home and got out with his kids and showed them about building a snowman.

Scott putting on the finally touches.  I love this young man.  He so thinks out of the box and I love that in him, among other things.  He’s ornery as the dickens and his mom says he will be a forever kid.   I told her I hope so…

Now the neighbor across the road slipped over and added a kid’s shotgun… so the one-upsmanship is going on. 

More to follow.  Y’all be safe in this weather now.

Red-Neck Santa…

I have, as I’m sure you all have figured out by now, a weird and somewhat twisted sense of humor.  As one would expect, birds of a feather tend to flock together and I have to share a photo that one of my nieces sent to me.  She figured I could do something with it.  After I got up from off the floor laughing I  wrote her back and told her it would be going up on my next post.

If there are any of you folks that are upset by hunting and those that keep mounted heads on their walls, I’ll apologize to you all now.  I’ve been raised around deer hunters all my life even though my dad or others in my immediate family were not outdoors people or hunters, I can understand those who do hunt and I’ve enjoyed many a dinner with venison on the menu.

That being said… here’s the red-neck Santa photo.  Please note that there is even a red nose on the lead reindeer…

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Nothing Much More Can Be Said…

 

May your blessings be many in this time of  joy and may peace reign in your heart and your home in the coming year.

For Christmas Decorating Call…

1-800-DianeGo… my sister-in-law, affectionately called our Christmas crazy of the family.  This is her favorite time of year and it shows.  Big time.

I took this photo as we both, fools that we are, were outside after going to the grocery for the last of what was needed to cook the feast for tomorrow.

 

Looks like the good Lord took over decorating the outside of the house, though.  So we’ll look at some of the outside with the snow before we go inside.

  These lighted Christmas boxes are covered with about an inch of snow at this time.

The mail box topped with a wreath is getting covered.

  The snow is blowing so fast and furious that it looks like a snowball fight going on in front of my camera.

When we left to go to the store you could see the lights.  Two hours later after grocery shopping and stopping for a quick bite to eat the lights are under a blanket of snow.

  Doesn’t this look like a big snow cone with colored dots on top?

Snow covered shrubs, lights and candy canes guaranteed to put you in the Christmas spirit even before it started snowing.

The frog has officially gotten more than a tongue full of snow… and both of our fingers were officially frozen now , so let’s go inside….

The tree is set up in the front foyer.  Because of the high ceilings, the Christmas tree doesn’t look huge, but the sucker is 10 feet tall and Diane and whomever helps her to decorate have to use a ladder to get the up high stuff and to put the star on top.  I didn’t help this year with the decorations but I have been a helper in past years.

This tree is a new addition this year.  It is set up in the dining room and is a real tree.  Ben decided he wanted a real tree for the wonderful memories the smell of the pine trees bring back from our childhood.  Diane would never turn down another tree to decorate.

  This tree is in my bedroom.

This tree is in the hallway as I come out of the bedroom to head into the family room.

This tree is in the family room with all the family members stockings hung by the chimney with care with hopes that Saint Nicholas soon will be there… There are stockings for Ben and Diane, Walter and me, Diane’s three children with their spouses name on the same stocking, Ben’s four children with the three married kids and their spouse’s names on a stocking together and one for his son that is not yet married. There are fourteen stockings for their grandchildren and we just found out that there will have to be at least one more stocking added for next Christmas.  There are also stockings for their four cats.  They are family members, too, you know.

Our mom and dad…

Diane’s mom and dad.  I love that she honors them and shares Christmas with the ones that brought them into the world and eventually helped to combine two families into one. A train is under the tree because we all love them and Diane’s late daddy Burt worked for years for the railroad.

 

And to top off the tree and to remind all of the reason for the season, the Christmas Angel.

Across the room and over the kitchen area is Diane’s homage to the wildlife that we all love to see.  This takes the 10 or 12 foot ladder to get these beasties  and the trees up there.

Whichever of the three bathrooms you stop into for the pit stop, you will have something to peruse.  The hall bathroom is the Christmas train bathroom.

The train wreath next to the mirror over the sink…

The master bathroom… So many in here I’ll just put in two or three more pictures without a comment.

I love this window and Diane really dressed it up with another Christmas Angel. 

And an angel by the light switches to make you smile whether you are coming or ‘going’.

The bathroom for the back two bedrooms.

And yes, there is a tree in this bathroom.

On the back of the commode… The towel shelf across from the tub….

I love this bell tree.

 On top of a storage cabinet in the bathroom.

This bathroom has a Santa and reindeer theme.  There’s more and I’ll do it in another post.  I’m tired of typing.

The preceding post truly is not a paid advertisement.  I just wanted you all to share my Christmas with me and to know why, besides the fact that I love my siblings, I love all of the ‘eye candy’ that I so enjoy looking at when I come to Ft. Worth for Christmas.

From my heart to all of you out there in the blogsphere…

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU and as Tiny Tim said, “God bless us every one.”