Merry Christmas from way down South Texas

Ok..I've been really really bad about not keeping up with my blog. It's not that I don't want to keep up it's just that I haven't made the time. Its always something or other. For example, I've battled a nasty nasty cold, one of my cousins passed away of liver failure and a metastasized ovarian tumor, I've had to adjust to some medication changes that the doc has made, blah blah blah.

I haven't been able to spend alot of time at my lil country place either. I guess in the last two months or so I have only been there two maybe three times. Everytime I go there I never wanna come back. Its peaceful there and I like that I dont have to live according to no one else's rules but my own. I like walking aimlessly on my property and making my own trails. I get lost in thought completely losing track of time. I am always thinking of just wanting to live a simplified life. I dont mean that I dont want to do physical work...I enjoy working on my own stuff and find satisfaction in it. I just mean that I want to rid of possessions that have no practicality in them. I admit that I am a pack rat and have a hard time letting go of certain things because I feel that "I might need that someday" then 5yrs later its still there..untouched and unscathed. No more! I see where stuff is starting to clutter and I just cant have that.

I am on a four day weekend off!! Yay!! Then next week we only work Tues, Wed, Thurs and off Fri, Sat, Sun for the New Years Holiday, though I have to go into work on Saturday morning for about two hours *frown*.

It was in the lower 80's for the highs for most of the week except today. It felt like summer again. Today we stayed in the 60's for the highs. It would be great if it stayed in the 60's year round. Tomorrow night(Christmas Eve) we are supposed to get hit with another cold front dipping into the upper 20'/30's. This is COLD fer us South Texans. I'm glad that I don't have any pipes to worry about at that lil place-o-mine.

We will be spending some time with my lil nephews fer Christmas. They are so cute and are doing really really well in school. They are 4 and 6yrs old. They truly are like my babies and I am looking forward to seeing them.

I too hope that you will be spending some nice family time with your loved ones this holiday season. I hope that you can all sit together and share a holiday meal. And dont fergit to remind the lil ones to leave some cookies n' milk out fer Santa Claus. I'm going to leave Santa Claus a big o' mess-o-bbq fixins' on the table with all the trimmings and some cold beer. I know he'll be busy and most likely hungry when he gits here. I know he'll be strung up on sugar from all the cookies so he may appreciate the bbq and an after dinner cigar 'fore he heads back out. Of course his reindeer will git plenty o' fresh coastal grass and water as well.

From my lil house to yers..Merry Christmas.

(photo from early spring taken from the road) **click on photo to enlarge