The Cattle are Lowing

Pretty Christmas card.

The second snow.

Ziggy

I wish this didn't have to be true for anyone....

The Nativity and

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

Have a bright blessed day....

What a Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Wordless Wednesday-"Christ"mas

C'est Si Bon

This song reminds me of my dad. We used to watch Dean Martin together. I would always ask him, what does 'C'est si bon' mean? He would laugh and never really tell me.

Debonair Dad

Here is my dad at age 45, the day I got married.  How debonair, kind of

like Dean Martin?

Ornament from Austria

My daughter brought this ornament home to me on

Christmas 2004.  She had been in Croatia for 5 months

working as a nanny for some Wesleyan missionaries.

She got to visit Austria during Christmas and go to their

Christmas market (Christkindlmarkt) in Vienna.  

More ice pics (picks)

Aren't the calves cute?  They were slipping and sliding

on the ice.

Power Outage

Luckily for us the power outage was only 24 hours.

They had an estimate of 10 days to 3 weeks.  Oh my God,

that would have been horrible.  I don't know yet what

has made the difference, I just hope and pray it stays on!

Most of the state had been without power.  We were

fortunate to have a couple of gas heaters in the living

room and one bedroom or we would have been very cold.

We also have a gas stovetop so I could cook by candle

light which I did.  


Here are the iced trees.  Not quite as good as iced teas.

I also wanted to show you my new Hunter boots that came

from Nordstrom's just in time for the wintery weather.

My feet remained dry and warm as I stepped outside

several times these past two wet and icy days.  See, Nin!

More Christmas

Daughter Melissa's ornament.  She collects pigs.


Daughter Rebecca's ornament.  She collects elephants.


Son John's ornament.  He liked green things like frogs

and turtles.
Fun Monday Post is still below.

Word Verification

For those of you with word verification I got this one recently from Rechelle's.

f e d o x h b

Now do you think that might be the real name for Fed Ex?

Fed Ox and then hb could stand for homeboys?

Just my sad attempt at humor....

Fun Monday is still below this post.

Fun Monday

Kaytabug is our host this week

giving us these instructions.

Here are rules:

"In the spirit of the season I would like to see your favorite Christmas

tree ornament.  Not to be confused with the WHOLE tree.  I want

you to zoom in and show me one or a few (you know I can't choose

just one!) of your favorite ornaments.  If you don't decorate a tree,

show me your menorah or dreidel, Kinara, or Yule Log.  I want to

see your favorite decoration for this holiday season."

This first picture is my angel on the tree top.


This bulb was made by glass artisans in Egypt.  

Of course, I didn't go there to get it. ;.D

I love being able to see the lights through it.


This glass ornament is painted on the inside.  I can

only imagine how hard that would be to do.

Next week's hostess will be the sweet Kitten.
I hope everyone has a blessed and Fun Monday.

Look at our ice

It is pretty but treacherous.  

Winning a Contest

This could be my Fun Monday post since it is about a Christmas ornament.  

I entered a contest over at Rechelle's blog.  We were asked to "name that

video" she took of herself chasing her hubby around with the camera while

he tried to evade her.  It seems that he enjoys taping boxes shut whether

they need it or not.  I came up with the title "Who taped the dogs out!" in reference

of course to "Who, Who?"  If you watch the video you will understand.  If you

have never visited Rechelle you should.  She is one humorous lady with a wide

variety of interesting posts.  Here is her post announcing the winners.  My prize

was a Christmas ornament which you see pictured here:

Below I finally added my lights:

She sent me my ornament "speedy delivery" as they used

to say on Mr. Rogers.  It was quick enough to make your

head spin.  This is the same Rechelle that advertised on

PW Ree's place about a month ago.  Now I am showing

her some linky love too.  The ornament arrived in a box

taped shut by....(I wonder who?)

My Weekly Winner's post is below this.  

Weekly Winners Sunday Meme

My husband called me Monday morning on his way to work

and told me I should take a picture of the sunrise.  

This guy looks like he's talking to me.

He's sitting at my backyard fence taking it easy.  

The sunrise was a beautiful sight and so worth getting

up for.

Goats and hens near our house.

A very cool yellow car too.

Nostalgia.

For more Weekly Winners go see Lotus.

5 Post Meme

Candid Karina tagged me to do the 5 post meme.  She also gave me some helpful guidance on how to link back to older posts.  I must sincerely thank her.  I used to have the old type blogger and one day the new type blogger magically appeared.  Now I actually see the little world linky button that everyone was talking about.  "Oh, the things you will see." (Dr. Suess)

The rules are:  Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts.  The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given below (family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like).  Tag 5 other friends to do this meme.  Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better:

1. Family:  This is a history that I have begun telling and will continue in the future.
2. Friend:  I have found only one post that I did on friends and they just happen to be blogger friends.  
3. Yourself:  My favorite post about myself would probably the first post I ever did to explain my blog name.  
4. Your love:  This post would have to be the one and it is titled "My Dearest."
5. Anything you like:  I wonder if this means anything I "like" or "anything" I like?  Oh well, I really liked this post the first time and since I had posted twice this day I felt like it didn't get much airtime because the first post was a Fun Monday.  So here it is again.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
   

Tagged for 5 Post Meme

I am going to tag two new friends:

Jeanette

Kitten

I might be able to explain the links 

to you if you need it. :D

Paul McCartney - Hey Jude

Royal Albert Hall:
Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Carl Perkins, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Buffet,
Phil Palmer and more.....