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It still fascinates me what I notice about Foxy.  Like when she's walking back to the door after doing her thing in the back yard.  Sometimes, she has this special "walk".  It's more like a trot...

This is trivial, but maybe by writing it out I can make a decision.  I'm trying to decide whether to get a haircut or not.  It's been a very long time since my last one and my hair hasn't been this...

I re-united with an old friend today.  We hadn't seen each other in at least 10 years.  We re-connected on Facebook through a mutual friend.  I was graveyard manager at Sambo's and he was a...

I'm cold!  It's cold in this house!  Winter has hit with lows in the 20s.  The space heater I used in the old computer room is now in the living room.  I figured I wouldn't need it anymore since...

My aunt is really something.  One of my mom's younger sisters(Mom was the oldest in the family) she's the only aunt I have left.  When my mom died, she and her husband became my parents,,,always...

Ah, for the days of drugs, drugs, and more drugs.  Ah, for the days of "Sure, I've got that co-pay for the expensive prescription drug".  Being out of work changes all that.  You knew that,...

I changed the calendar Saturday.  Don't know why I have one since I seldom look at it.  I had 2 to chose from,,,a Humane Society one  and a City of Waco one.  City of Waco went on the side...

Things I want to do in 2011:1.  Stop eating baloney sandwiches for lunch.2.  Drink Maxwell House coffee.3.  Buy a hamburger and fries every once and a while.4.  Spend at least $20 for gasoline...

The candy cane begins with a stick of white candy.  The white symbolizes the purity of the Christmas season.  Red stripes are for the blood shed by Christ on the cross so that we may have eternal...

Were it not for the mouse that gnawed a hole in a church organ, the Christmas carol "Silent Night" might never have been heard outside Austria.It was 1818, a snowy Christmas Eve in Oberndorf,...

Okay, just one more Christmas story.  One a little more recent.  As I was trying to get a little Christmas spirit, I rummaged around the closet that has a little bit of everything in it including...

I've been thinking about family Christmas traditions. They were never thought of as traditions. They were just things that were done every Christmas without even thinking about them. I guess the...

When I was a freshman in college in 1964, I had the opportunity to be Santa Claus for a group of children at an orphanage.   I had a great time and it really warmed my heart.  It was a little...

Growing up in central Texas in the late 40s and early 50s, I heard all and knew the words to most of the Christmas songs, but really couldn't identify with them.  They were about stuff I knew...

 The only time I saw hard liquor in the house when I was growing up was at Christmastime.  There were no bars that sold mixed drinks in my hometown in the early 1950s.  Only Honkytonks that...