Today a neighbor mentioned that she’s still Christmas shopping. I asked “isn’t Christmas over”? I mean I’ve given the family the gifts and the checks, so it’s over, right? I know, I know I’m being a Grinch! It’s hard to have the sprit when it’s almost 80 degrees and the kids are living over 1,000 miles away.

Last week this time, I was with Mom Christmas shopping and planning our trip to visit Trina and family in Tennessee. Now I’m home again, and feeling a little blue.

I did knit gifts, mostly hats. I also made some “wine bottle lights”. Cindy got a wine bottle with a chicken on it. Rowland got red peppers. Mom got one with ribbons and bows. I even did one for Billy, but unless he goes to Moms for Christmas, he doesn’t get it. They were fun to make. Just take an empty wine bottle (Tom got to drink the wine). Put a string of lights (20 or 30 lights work best) in the bottle, and then decorate. It was fun to make and the family seemed to like them.

Tonight Tom got the camper from storage and we loaded it. Tomorrow we are leaving for 4 days/nights in Louisiana. We have reservations at the casino RV park. We’ll be back late Saturday. We’ll have Internet access, but not sure if I’ll have time to update the blog. It might interfere with my slot time.

I'm Back

I’m back but not for long.

I spent the last 10 days on the road. Oh the places I’ve been and the things I’ve seen. I flew into Richmond, VA on the 8th. For the next 3 days, Mom and I did Christmas Shopping and visiting family and friends. Of course I took lots of photos and tried out my new camera lens. I could zoom into the trees from the yard. Even though it’s December, the colors were still bright orange and red.

On the 11th we drove up to Kingsport Tennessee to visit Trina. I drove Dad’s jeep. I was a little worried but the jeep ran great. We did some more shopping. Trina and Tony coach a girl’s basketball team and Meghan helps. If you look carefully, you see Meghan’s “Friend” Matt.

We got back to West Point on the 15th and I flew back to San Antonio today. Although I really enjoyed the trip, I’m glad to be home.
Check out the photos on my flickr albums.