It's almost here

Santa is warming up the seat in the sleigh and getting ready for his long trip around the world. WOW I know that there are many children out there that just can't wait for him to deliver all the goodies.
I on the other hand know that he has already come to my house. He brought me a brand new Weber grill. I was so proud of my new grill that I fixed some pork chops on it the other night and were they good. I love to cook out and now that I have one of the better grills on the market I really do enjoy it.
Sherri and I don't buy many gifts for each other. We have always tried to buy something that benefits us both. Something that we both have wanted and needed for some time and that way we are both happy at the end of the day.
Kris on the other hand does not follow that sentiment. He likes being showered with gifts...the more the better! Can you imagine a kid thinking that way? Really I must say that he always has me take him to get his Mom a present. One for Christmas and one for her Birthday. He loves seeing her open her presents and it is all I can do to keep him from telling her what he bought her before she opens it.
Well it is time for that second cup of coffee so I will leave you with this...May Santa shower you with all the things that you have always wanted and leave you feeling good and content. 

Merry Christmas...

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Enjoying Tawakoni State Park

My Decorating crew

What a great lighting display!

Look at all the concrete we have 

This will be Christmas adventure

Here we are at the State Park enjoying the best weather you could ask for. It was 70 degrees here yesterday and we all went bike riding. Oh how sore are we today.
Kris and Sherri got out the outside decorations after returning from our bike ride. They had a good time putting out the lights. When they got through it looked real good. I was really proud of them. 
We are going to have a great Christmas here...

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No Internet

This will be short due to the fact that we do not have Internet and I am on our hot spot.
We are at the State Park in a beautiful site waiting for Christmas to arrive. Jason and Tracy are coming to celebrate Christmas and Sherri's B-Day. 
We are having a Mexican Christmas dinner this year and I can't wait to dig in!
Hope all out there has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year...

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No Bah Humbug here

Really I do love Christmas but you have to hate the high speed chase that comes from it. The count down the stores put on and all the "Black Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sales".
My goodness it is a wonder heart attacks and suicides are so high during this season!
Moving on...It is Sherri's Birthday on the 25th! Now how lucky is she to share Christ's Birthday? She will tell you she is not lucky at all. She says everyone overlooks her day opening their own gifts. I can understand that. But if you really stop and think about it...if everyone forgets your birthday then they have no idea how old you are! How great is that?
Today is a special day for me. No school...nothing planned but just watch TV and maybe spend some time in my studio painting. Now that is an idea day...

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More shopping

We just can't stop shopping. Shop till you drop! Yes it seems like this time of year you have to shop endlessly. It is the great American tradition. I would think we would all be better off if we practiced the art of giving all year long then we would not be so depressed in December by fighting all the crowds and traffic going and coming from the shopping malls.
Malls...Now that too is becoming the thing of the past. We see fewer and fewer malls and more strip centers. You see the strip centers allows everyone to get out and drive more. Hundreds of people get in their cars and drive all over a wide area going to all these different stores to by what we use to buy in one area the size of a football field. 
This gives us all the opportunity to ram in to each other and practice our best form of road rage, we can muster up, in this the time of giving. Oh come all ye faithful...shoppers to the stores and spend a big portion of your time and money.
We are no different than all the other fine folks out there that get ready for Christmas. This year we have bought more and taken more back to exchange for something different. So yes we have done our part to crowd the stores and spend as much as humanly possible to show our love for the season.
I hope here in the last few days of this wonderful Christmas season that all my family and friends out there have a very Merry Christmas...

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Decorating our tree

Yesterday Sherri and I decided it was time to drag out the tree and get into the Christmas spirit. Thank goodness we saved our RV tree. When we bought the house we got a tree that fit the house but Sherri kept the RV tree in the attic. Maybe she knew something back then. 
We had to come up with a place to put it and decided on the corner of the slide behind the table. It works out great there.
Next we found the tote with all the decorations in it. Sherri has really fixed up the inside. Kris added his touch and now I think all is well here. My part was getting the tree out of the attic and putting it together. 
We will have Christmas here and then we will leave here to make a round to see all the kids. We will have to hope for dry weather so we can get out of the RV port. It has rained here so much and the roads out here in the wilderness are terrible. We will be looking for places to stay that have concrete pads so we wont sink out of site. 
Well better sign off here...school starts in one hour and this teacher needs to get a lesson together...

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Almost got caught by the Tornado

Sherri Kris and I headed out to Lindale to meet with all our good friends for lunch. We had a wonderful time and had some real good food. 
We spent several hours eating and visiting. It was so good to see all our co-workers from years past.
We left there around 2:30 and arrived at home at 3:30. We later found out that Lindale had a tornado come through around 4:00 pm. WOW talk about close. I could not have planned that any better.
The 2nd storm moved through here about 5:00 this morning and I mean it moved through. The wind was going about 60 mph. The rain was blown right through the port. Everything was soaked from front to back.
I would imagine that the lake is up over the road by now. I am sure all this rain will stop...

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Heading to Lindale

Today is the day that our old set team has Christmas lunch together. We all meet once every December for lunch at Pasada's. It is about an hours drive from here so we will have to get ready early this morning. 
Yesterday we all went Christmas shopping in Canton Texas. Kris and I had to pick out one of Sherri's gifts for her Birthday. Her day falls on December the 25th. She shares a birthday with Jesus...how great is that. She is not too happy with it seeing as how everyone is busy celebrating Christmas so she feels short changed.
I know how she feels...my Birthday is January the 12th. It is so close to Christmas that everyone is about partied out by the time it rolls around! 
You know you get to a certain age that you really don't want too much hoopla over you getting another year older. I just try to loose count of the years so I don't know how old I am. As long as I feel young who cares?
OK I am about to get up and fix me another cup of coffee and read some emails. I'm getting ready for another wonderful day...

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Pictures of the RV

Here are some pictures of the RV. Now this is before we got it so it does not have Sherri's decorations in it. I will try and get some recent pictures when I can. Sherri has fixed it up real nice inside.

This is Kris's room

Kris has his own movie seating 

Sherri's Kitchen

What a pantry...we wont go hungry 

We are pre-wired for solar

This sofa sleeps good...just ask me

I love my movie seating and recliners

It is sooo nice to have a place to eat

Queen size bed that is easy to make

I can walk around in this shower...WOW

Hallway to the bedroom

We really love our new home. I am getting around 10 to 12 MPG pulling it. Now that is great and will afford me to go to many places with the diesel prices the way they are now...

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Sherri did her Christmas shopping

Sherri left about 8:00 am yesterday and I stayed home to conduct school for Kris. I do not teach Language Arts or History/Geography so I was a substitute teacher today. You remember in school when you had a sub in one of your classes? Yea...that is the way it started out. I had to do a little attitude adjusting to make him understand that I was in charge...LOL.
We got through school fast and we both went to do what we like best. Kris on his computer and me in my studio painting. 
The rest of the day was real quite around here. We enjoyed doing our thing and around 9:00 pm Sherri returned with the goods. She had a good time as always. I guess that would be the love of her life...shopping. She can walk around a store and never buy one thing and be the happiest person...

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Backed in and settled

Yesterday we left the state park and moved back to our lake lot. We had tried to back in the night before after returning from the dealership but found out we cannot get in the RVport in the dark.
It took us several stabs but we did get in where we wanted. We plan on staying here for some time and needed to have it straight and level.
Sherri got all the inside things done and I got us all hooked up outside. Kris...well he went to the computer and got on line. He loves having Internet out here. He will spend hours after school watching all his games. If you need to know anything about the computer or the Internet he is our go to guy.
Sherri took off to town and got her hair cut. I spent the day on the computer myself. I need to read about everyone and see what my RV friends are up to. I make notes of places that I would like to go and see and then plan trips to those places. 
Sherri came back home with her new hair cut...which by the way looks real good. We put together a small snack for the night and then watched a little TV. Not many channels out here. That is another thing I need to work on. I have a good antenna but I need to get it mounted to the port so it will pick up more channels.
OK we are here and are planning to get some of our projects done so we can once again head out...

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