Our World-Starting a new tradition

We may have started a new tradition, Christmas dinner at The Old Post Office Cafe. Mike’s brothers, Max and Bob, put together a ham dinner with mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon and corn. Mike’s Mom brought her famous fruit salad and I made fried apples. WE ATE. And so did the customers who didn’t know when they arrived they’d be eating a Free Christmas dinner. That’s right. Max said, “everyone should eat free for Christmas.” And Mom said we should do this every year.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. Did you start any new holiday traditions?

And now, time to prepare for the Cyber Masquerade Ball for New Years Eve.

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Sorry there’s no photo of all the good eats, it just disappeared so quickly.

Celebrating with family

Not really With My family as they are not around. Yet I have memories of family around me.

My Grandfather on Mom’s side carried creative genes (and might have passed some along). He put together this Christmas tree with parts and pieces of stuff and things.

Grandma would probably recognize her broken jewelry. The bottle caps may have been from jugs of Thunderbird wine, their favorite.

Mom hung this tree in her living room, all year long, and plugged it in every night.

Then there’s my fake 18 inch tree…

…decorated with Mom’s rhinestone earrings.

Also a copy of A Christmas Carol given to my Grandmother in 1917, and I can’t find a copy write date in the book.

And my Aunt Helen carved this whistle.

 All these people have passed on so I feel very fortunate to have an adopted family.

 

Patty and Darrel raised Mike and his four brothers with love and respect. I’ll spend Christmas with this caring family. Darrel is sick right now, although we all pray he’s made it through the worse. Chemo seems to have killed the stomach tumor yet he is scheduled for two more sessions. Then physical therapy to regain his strength. He’s known as “The Giant”, a Big man with a Big heart.

Christmas is All About Love

Two Turtle Doves...

Must be Love!

Don and Angie have been courting for over a week and yesterday laid an egg. Hopefully it will hatch in 2-3 weeks. Turtle doves typically lay two eggs, but these two are young and it’s their first time mating.

Some of you may remember this photo I posted about Moosejaw. I’d like to introduce Mike, a wonderful man I’ve fallen in love with. I couldn’t have received a better Christmas gift.

May you all experience the love and happiness you deserve over this holiday season and beyond.

Remember Whensday - Christmas Past

Zowie and Rachael
This photo doesn’t get any bigger. It was scanned and sent to me this summer after I refound my married family. This is my two step-children. I believe it’s from the early 1980s after we’d moved from Illinois to Washington. My x-husband expertly wrapped all the packages using containers like coffee cans, paper towel tubes and boxes. These were happy times.

Christmas is a time for the gathering of family, be they by blood or by choice. I hope you all will have a sharing time of love and joy over the holidays.

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MWT - Christmas is coming...

These beautiful packages arrived in a box unexpectedly from Stacey at Do What You Love. She posted here about the fun she has wrapping packages and I’m convinced. In fact, they are too pretty to open. But I’ll bet curiosity will get to me. Thank you so much Stacey!

I really haven’t “done” Christmas in several years. Oh yes, I get together with a few dear friends to share a meal and lovely companionship. None of us give gifts in the material sense; instead our gift is love and compassion for each other. Isn’t that really what it’s supposed to be about, every day?

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Remember Whensday - Christmas 1970

Adolph unwrapped his football present
Adolph was the first dog in my life. He came home in my Dad’s suit pocket at six weeks old. Oh how he loved to play fetch. But he’d only bring the ball back in the house. Outside, forget it. Maybe too many other distractions. Adolph didn’t like water as a puppy yet once he finally tried swimming you couldn’t keep him out of the water. He went boat camping with my family and dug deep holes in the sandy beach. Although Adolph has passed over the rainbow, he lived a long rich life of play and still has a place in my heart.

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Merry Christmas to all

D is playing hostess to a group of friends for Christmas. Her little house is all bedecked, inside...

...and out.

We hope it doesn’t rain a lot because the house is across a wash.

View down the wash from the driveway

Dry washes in the desert seem so harmless, most of the time just a dry looking ditch. However, when it rains that benign dry wash can become a raging current. Arizona has a “Stupid Drivers Law” that states drivers can be charged for rescue if they cross a flooded road. It only takes two feet of water to move a car and if you’re rescued off the roof, you can bet you’ll be on the nightly news.

May you get everything you’ve blogged, I mean, asked for and more this Christmas. But most of all, may you find truth and happiness in yourself, loved ones and all people of the world.

Gotta’ go make up Santa’s plate of goodies, and try not to eat them all.

Christmas Lights

Victorian house, Prescott, Arizona

Berta and I went to Prescott late yesterday to see Christmas lights, and go to Cosco (where yesterday’s post was photographed).

The same Victorian house

We were a little disappointed by the lack of lights, especially colors. Only a scattering of homes were decorated. I guess people have too much else on the mind.

Courthouse, Prescott, Arizona at twilight

The courthouse square was the best. We stopped at twilight on the way in, then again after dark.

Courthouse again

I really like the way the leafless trees look like a B&W negative. Sorry for the bright yield sign, I tried to tone it down.

Avenue of trees in front of courthouse

I don’t go out much after dark, especially when it’s cold. So this was my first outing to view Christmas lights. I don’t put them out on the RV and haven’t put up my tree yet. That will be a future blog.