MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Not the first Christmas I have spent alone. It does not get any easier! Just trying to remember the "better" days with family.
I always wondered what happened to old people, now I know! I am grateful to be alive, and have enough sense to know it! Thank God for the wonderful life I have enjoyed! Even alone, I am so glad to be here!

LET SNOW LET IT SNOW!!

It has been a cold, and windy Christmas Eve here at the Thousand Trails Park in Whitney, Texas. Winds with gusts up to 43 miles per hour! What a raw day. I am soo cold. Just bundled up in my electric blanket!

Freezing in Whitney!

Had our first "real freeze" here last night. Water was frozen, lucky I always have a gallon or two drawn up just for that! It took about two hours to thaw out, that wasn't too bad. However I did nothing to get ready for my trip west. I am just sooo glad I wasn't parked on the desert near Quartzsite when the storm passed through there. The wind really scares me. I have seen big rigs blown over, so stands to reason I could roll over too. Again tonight we will be in the teens. Hopefully I can manage to get out early next week. Meanwhile I will keep busy doing "busy work".

Kandi's First Grooming

Kandi about 6 mos. old. First grooming. What a movie star!!

Baby Kandi

For years I have had poodles. My beloved Mitzi died in 2004. I swore I would'nt get another. Hurts too much when you lose them! But year before last Mother's Day ,my grand children and their Mom and Dad gave me a new BABY! How could I say no to something this sweet!!

PASSPORT ISSUES

After much back and forth, I finally got my Passport Card! I had to get a certified copy of my birth certificate from the state of Texas. which came back without my name! Many calls later to both the State and Passport Office, I went to the Court House in Johnson County,TX to try to get a certified copy. Well guess what, they had one, however it wasn't filed until 1944! This was the only place I could have ever got one. I called the Passport Office to report that I had gotten my certified copy, only to be told it must be filed within one year of birth! I was so mad, couldn't even be civil to the guy! I told him it was not my fault the Doctor didn't file it. I was told to send it in anyway, which I did. I was told they may not OK, it. Well, lo and behold I did receive my Passport Card!!! So I am now able to go over to the Pink Store to eat with the LoW bunch in Deming,NM! Never give up!!

Storms!

Last night and early this morning most of central Texas was hit with some terrific storms. Some area close to me received winds up to 80 miles per hour! Here in my park Thousand Trails at Whitney,TX we mostly had very hard rain. It really pounded me. Of course in a RV it sounds much worse. The wind did blow, but I don't think it was 80 mph! The wind is one thing that really scares me. I just can see my rig rolled over, and everything I own gone! That did happen to a friend of mine. She was travelling through Raton Pass,NM when a burst of wind caught her rig, taking it off the hitch, landed in the ditch along the highway. She wasn't hurt, but lost just about everything in the rig.

When I looked out my kitchen window this morning, I was surprised to see a lonely cow! Do you think the wind blew him in? You never know what you will see down here.