1st Christmas Party Of 2012

The step kids came over yesterday for a gathering for the first time at our house. So Ronda and I got the house festive and prepared.

 

Thomas Kincaid special edition bible opened to Luke 2:8-12

 

Loki did her part… so did Jessie the cat, which was lay around and look cute…  I couldn’t find Jessie as she was doing her job so well, elsewhere… under or behind something.  

 

The manger scene

Ronda working very hard in the kitchen…

 

   

The kids opening their gifts… Sophia went first, she was a bundle of energy!

 

Carissa and Bryan went next, how does this thing open?!?

 

You take the pictures from any angle! Tayler and Matthew went next. Thorin, Sam and Amy watch, Thorin has (ack!! I can’t remember her name, I think it was Mema? They are dog sitting her) tucked into his shirt.        

 

Then Ronda went, Sophia helped her, it was a beautiful cross ornament for the tree.

 

I got some great pictures of the kids after a good dose of sugar!

 

 

Everybody had a great time, we watched Paul and Christmas Vacation, well, we watched parts of them anyway! Everybody was hopped up on high octane cookies and such so not much watching going on.

Have a Merry Christmas everybody, time to head into the kitchen and help with the dishes!

12/21/12 – Turns Out, It Was Just The End Of The Mayan Calendar

 

The B’ak’tun happened and we’re still here. NASA stated the world will not end, they even made a video about how it won’t end. Pretty safe hedging your bet against considering how many predictions have come and gone.

I don’t think the end really means the end, unless of course it’s an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs in which case, it would have been an end of world event.

Otherwise even the apocalypse as described in the Bible doesn’t mean the end of the world. I’m not a doomsday kind of person, but I do think something bad is coming, be it another war or conflict of that kind. I hope not, the safe bet is I’m right, considering the track record of the world but I hope I’m wrong, we’ll cross our fingers.

We are very glad the end didn’t come because we’re going to host family tomorrow for a Christmas gathering of our step kids and their kids. This will be the first time we host them at our house and we’re looking forward to it. I’ll take pictures and post them when I can.

Have a great Friday everybody!

Mice…….

We went up to the rig this past weekend and found we had captured two mice. The rig’s rear end is facing the woods, not sure that matters though.

I laced more traps and we’ll see how many more we get, little buggers!

Pure Attitude

Jessie the cat, this is her, allowing you to be in her presence…

Blog's Gone Silent

I have been noticing that many of the blogs I follow have gone silent, one says unplugged and all posts are gone. Another hasn’t blogged in a over a year and he used to blog almost every day. It makes me wonder what might have happened to them. Have a they passed on, have they forgotten their blog..

You get a snippet of a persons life and you get used to reading about them and then poof, no more.

I miss “RV-Adventure-Bound”, he seemed real happy in his new campsite then he posts about possibly being hacked and we hear nothing after Halloween of 2011.

I miss “Journey Of Little Sanitee”, nothing since Jan of this year…

I miss “Happily Hitched, An RV Blog”, they were excited about another season in their new rig, they’re young newlyweds and starting this lifestyle early and their blog was fun to read, nothing since May of this year.

There is a whole slew of them that have gone silent, I hope things are going well for them and that they are so busy and happy they have no time to blog.

Bye Bye To “The Dragon”

It’s time for it to go, I have had this monster laptop (lap crusher) since February 2007 and it still looks brand new. I’m putting it on eBay and hope it gets a good home. I spent the better part of yesterday rebuilding it back to Windows Vista x64 Ultimate. Why Vista you ask? Because HP, while I love their equipment is horrid at driver updates when a new OS comes out. This machine got zero Windows 7 love from HP so a few functions didn’t work when you ran Windows 7 on it, like the eject button, the bass and treble etc…

Either way, Windows Vista ran perfect on this machine for 2 years before I installed Windows 7 on it so I have no problem restoring this version to it. It’s almost like a portable TV, 20” higher than 1080p resolution, one of the last to use WUXGA and the screen is simply stunning to see.

So, bye bye to the best computer I have ever used, may you serve somebody else as well as you served me.

For some perspective on this machines sheer size.

December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor…

Happy Birthday Mom!

Pearl Harbor Day

The birth of my Mom happened on December 7th, 1940. 1941 my Mom was a one year old baby hiding with my Grandparents from the Nazi’s in Norway. Everybody was scared and an ocean away the USA was being attacked by the Japanese.
 

For me this day is a sad one on two levels, my Mom died very close to her birthday on November 29th and it’s also a sad day that thousands of men and women died. It brought the USA into WWII on December 8th with a declaration of war and the rest is history.

How many today are remembering this day and saying thanks to all those that protect us everyday. Our country has changed a lot since then, lets pray should another attack like this occur who ever is in charge does the right thing.

December 2nd 2012 – The Fog

We did some decorating this weekend and tonight I thought I’d try to capture how it looks. However it’s still 50f outside at 9:00pm and fog rolled in before I could capture the entire house!