Dog Followup

Looking at some of the old blogs, I noticed a story about Herb, the dog who stayed with us for a week or so. He was a neat dog and we would have loved to keep him but, unfortunately, we found his owners.

Because of him, we did decide to get a dog so now we have J.J. He is about two years old and came from the Small Paws Rescue group. He is a lot of fun and makes me wonder why we waited 14 years after our last dog died to get another. Oh, well.

J.J. loves to go for rides in the Jeep and goes with me every day to the post office. My son, Dan, and I joke about our lack of masculinity driving around with a little white poodle looking dog but, at age 65, I don't really care.

Infrequent Blogs

I'm beginning to discover how hard it is to make regular notes. It's a good thing that I don't have a column to write in a local newspaper! I would never get it done.

Speaking of the title of this blog, I am reminded of a joke going around down here in South Texas (appropriately). It is a little off color so don't read on if you are easily offended.

An older man and older woman had each lost their spouse but they came to South Texas for the winter anyway. They met each other and began to date.

After a few weeks, they began to talk marriage. One day the woman told the man, "We need to sit down and talk about some aspects of being married before our relationship goes any farther". He agreed and they went out to dinner. After dinner, they began to talk and the old man said, "I've got to ask about sex. How do you feel about it?"

She replied, "I like it infrequently". The old man thought for a minute and then asked, "Is that one word or two?".

For some reason, jokes don't seem as funny in writing as when they are told orally. Oh, well!

Winter in South Texas

We got down here on Monday and the weather really is much nicer than at home. The high yesterday was about 70 degrees, compared to about 20 at home. Today, however, a cold front is coming through and the lows here are expected to drop to the upper 20's.

We went to Progreso, Mexico yesterday and ate and drank too much but we had a good time. I need to get the wire antenna up today so that I can talk on 20 and 40 meters. Maybe I'll get that done. I'm already adopting the "manana" attitude. I'll get done some day.

The Blizzard of '09

The weathermen started talking about it about four days before it hit (these guys really are much better than they were 20 years ago!). The forecasted track of the storm was changed several times but was always near Tulsa.

The sleet started about noon on Christmas Eve and fell for about two hours before it switched to snow. Louise and I took the grandkids to their aunt's house during the sleet and the road conditions deteriorated while we were delivering them! We had wind gusts to about 40mph and, later in the afternoon, almost had "whiteout" conditions. By the time the snow quit, we had about 6" on the ground here.

I used to think having a "White Christmas" was neat. Now I think its a Pain in the A**. Oh well, everyone did survive the Blizzard of '09!

Moral Dilemmas

Dan and Dorinda were visiting over the Holidays and they found a dog in downtown Tulsa. They brought it to our house and ran an ad on Craigs List to try to find the owner.

In the meantime, everyone fell in love with Herb (we found out his name later). He is about two years old, neutered, housebroken, and very well mannered. I had already decided that Louise and I would keep the dog if the owner wasn't found.

Dan and Dorinda made a pass through the neighborhood where they had found Herb and, sure enough, there were posters up looking for him. It was an extremely difficult decision for everyone in our family to call the number on the poster and tell them that we had their dog. In the end, though, we were glad we did and I'm sure Herb's owner was glad.

The picture shows Herb licking Dan's boot with Lucy, our Granddog, looking on. It was one more event in a very memorable Christmas season.

Christmas is Coming

I'm excited! Only 11 more days and we get to have our family all together. Dan and Dorinda will get in this Saturday - that night we will have them, our grandchildren Nathan and Gabby, and possibly a couple or three granddogs staying at the house.

The weather here would lead you toward getting into the Christmas spirit. It was 50° at 7:00 a.m. this morning and by 8:00 a.m., it had dropped to the mid-30's. Nice and brisk!

I'll take a picture of the Guineas this week and post it. We are about to get them grown enough to not worry about them. Just in time too, if we are going to go off to south Texas.

Christmas Lights

Well, I finally got around to taking pictures at night of the lights on the tower. This would make a good picture for a ham radio Christmas card. If I had painted the tower flat black it would not have shown up as brightly as it did.

This is a "yucky" day. It has been drizzling and overcast all day and the temps didn't get over 46° all day.

I also took a picture of the tree inside the house and posted it just for grins.

We've got a lot of things to do to get ready for the Holidays and our upcoming trip to South Texas. If this weather stays like this, I'll be ready to go next week! My most fervent wish is that everyone has a very happy holiday season.