Rain, Rain, Rain and I Was "Kidnapped"!

Thursday Morning Pistol Match--------------------CANCELLED due to RAIN
Saturday Morning Pistol Match--------------------CANCELLED due to RAIN

Thursday morning it was cloudy and they forecast rain in the afternoon. So at 8:30am we were at the Wickenburg Pistol Range ready to compete in the scheduled shooting match. Shortly after we arrived, it started raining…….. Whoa,  the weather forecasters missed it and the rain was early.  Everybody said, "Whoopee!! A Day Off!!!"  We all ran to our vehicles and took off, couldn’t shoot. You can shoot in freezing weather and when the wind is blowing but you can’t shoot in the RAIN.

Don’t see much rain here in Arizona at all, so it is a real treat.  This place always needs moisture, so it kinda puts everybody in a good mood.  I always said that when it is raining here, it is the only time I can sit in the house and do nothing without feeling guilty, like I should be out doing something.  I was heading home to do just that when Ms. Pat reminded me we had an appointment at the hospital!   I said, "What for?" She said, "You'll see".




As soon as I got in the door, WHAM!!, they tackled me and removed half my clothes, slammed me flat on my back and rolled me into a room.  Then this young lady began attaching all kinds of wires to me. It's tough to put up any resistance to a young, red headed lady like this, so I surrendered rather quickly. I kidded with her and asked her not to hurt me.  I told her that Ms. Pat would have to come along because she was my bodyguard!




Suddenly she started doing all kinds of fun things to me and I could hear my heart beating on the machine she was looking into. I didn’t realize it "squeaked" like that....sounded as if it needed some oil to me! I told her that if she hurt me, I was going to HOLLER and Ms. Pat would shoot her!




I was just lying back enjoying myself, having a good ole' time, when she took the wires off and turned to Ms. Pat and said “There, I’m all done with him”.  I think she was pleasantly surprised when Ms Pat asked her if she would pose for a picture.  She told us she had never been asked to have her picture taken during a procedure before!  Ms. Pat told her she would be a star on the internet.  She was a neat lady and she didn’t hurt me one bit!!




I no more than got my clothes back on and was in the hallway telling Ms Pat “Let's get out of here”!  when suddenly these two hoodlums slipped up behind me and abducted me! I was really scared this time. I remember my dad telling me when I was a boy, to always watch out if somebody in a white coat came to get you. Soon they had me flat on my back  and started removing my clothes.  AGAIN!!




Yep, you guessed it, they attached all these wires to me, except this time one guy had to take some sandpaper and sand off a spot before he attached the wires.  OUCH!!  Now that hurt!!  I get along pretty good with the gals around these places, but you can’t trust these guys! They will hurt you!!




Then they forced me up on this tread mill with all this apparatus on and told me to “get walkin”!
I thought OK.  I’ll go along with them for a while and then maybe I can make a break for it and escape.  They kept turning it up faster and faster and raising the elevation.  Man, we were going to town...."uphill fast".    I was just about to yell at Ms. Pat and tell her “OK. shoot ‘em”  when they slowed it down and said I made it through the test and they were going to turn me loose.  I can see now why Ms. Pat made me leave my gun in the truck!! 

When I finally escaped out of the Wickenburg Hospital, I strapped my gun back on and told Ms. Pat we were headed for HOME!!   She said "We probably should stop by the grocery store”.   I thought, "Hmmm, another trap!" So I just drove straight home…No Grocery Store!!

It rained all afternoon and evening.  I didn’t have any guns to clean since we didn’t shoot and I was all loaded up with bullets so I felt like I was on "vacation". Hot Dog!





Ms. Pat and Megabyte2 worked on their quilt project and had a grand ole' time…….




It rained and it rained.  I tell ya, rain is such a rarity around here, it makes you really appreciate it when it does happen. I enjoyed just watching it RAIN!! COOL. Praise the Lord..!




This place has an underground water drainage system that takes the water from the front door area…………




...it deposits all the excess rain water out here in front and directs it around to the side of the house.  I really like the way it works and it's another one of the things that impressed me about this place.

It was a GREAT WEEK!!!!



Thank you all for stopping by.  Hope you are all staying warm and dry….

God Bless..

Mike

This Blog is Published every Sunday and Wednesday..

Hey THANKS!!

I want to thank everyone very much for all the fine comments on how we looked all spiffed up for our Church dinner.  I appreciate it very much. That kind of helps one keep the ole' dobber up.  I find that one of the things about old age is, it is real easy to slip into a depressive state. More and more I find myself doing that and I sure don’t like it. I have found a few ways to combat it but it gets to be a full time job fighting it.

I was never troubled with depression before in my life. However, the last few years it seems to be happening more and more. I really think one thing that adds to depression is an inactive mind. That is the main reason I try to keep as busy as possible. Things like this Blog, my guns, shooting, cleaning guns, collecting guns and loading bullets are a few of the successful ways I fight and combat it. Depression is a terrible thing and not something a lot of people will talk much about.  If you have never had to deal with it, consider yourself lucky. But don’t count your blessings too soon, because it may still be in the future. I never dreamed that “I” would have to deal with it.  It is terrible!!


Yesterday was Ms. Pat's Ladies shooting class at the Wickenburg Gun Club and was it ever a beautiful day....76 degrees I don’t know how much longer this kind of weather can last but it sure is enjoyable and appreciated by us all.  Above is a picture of the instructors, Jerry and Caryl, starting off the training as usual with a SAFETY meeting. You can’t get too much SAFETY training when it comes to firearms. Jerry and Caryl are wonderful instructors and it is so kind of them to continually volunteer their time to this program.


Jerry is a very experienced shooter and has been involved in shooting for over 50 years. He has been on hunting expeditions all over the world and has trophy heads of all kinds of different animals he has taken from different countries.  He came to Arizona from Montana and they have a little ranch with a couple of horses just west of Congress. It was Jerry that suggested that I get into reloading and he has been a great source of information and a lot of help setting up my reloading press. He even came over to my shop and checked to see if I had my Dillon RL550B reloading press set up properly and loaded my FIRST bullet.  I am extremely indebted to him…..


I go out with Ms. Pat to her gun class every Tuesday afternoon.  I can go to one of the other bays and shoot if I want or need to but most of the time I just help set up and take down the targets for the gals. This helps Jerry and Caryl some and I enjoy it and the exercise is good for me.  Plus, if I stayed home, I would probably just get (you guessed it).....”depressed”. This is better, I enjoy it.


This is my reloading press that I mentioned. I spend a lot of time behind it pulling on that handle. Each time I pull that handle down, I crank out a new bullet.  You can see the empty brass casings just to the right of the handle. Those will all soon be bullets to take to the range and shoot.


These are the bullets that I use. They are lead. The one on the left is what I am using exclusively now. It is Moly coated lead and very slick.  One of the guys that shoots at the club is a distributor for Bear Creak Moly coated bullets and supplies many of us with hundreds of these. He brings them right to the Range and saves us a lot of postage… because they are HEAVY!! 


That bullet on the left is one of my finished products. The one on the right is a factory load. We buy the factory loads and shoot them and then reload the brass casings ourselves over and over many times. This saves a bundle of bucks.. The factory bullet costs approximately 0.50 each and the reload costs about 0.18. Quite a savings as you can see. Since I have started reloading less than a year ago, I have reloaded nearly 10,000 bullets. Yes, 10 THOUSAND!! A lot of bullets I know…seems unreal doesn’t it? But it does add up..

It is a GREAT WEEK!!!!

I am happy to welcome two more followers:
Eddie
Rodney
Very glad to have you folks with us and hope to hear some comments from you. That brings the count up to 245!!


For all you RVers out there enjoying life on “batteries”, here is a chart that I always used to watch my power consumption. I taped it right along side my battery monitor. Remember, in order to maintain your batteries and make them last as long as possible, you should not take them down below 50% before they are recharged.  Happy boondocking!!


Thanks to you all for stopping by as we continue to praise our Father in Heaven for the many, many blessings He bestows upon us.

Mike

PS:  Here's a picture that I took off of Facebook of Rollie and Gina with their new twin granddaughters.  It's a little "fuzzy" but it's all I have for now.  Aren't they beautiful little girls?  Congratulations, Rollie and Gina. 

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What, another Quilter in the Family?

When I came into the house from my gun shop, I was quite amused to see Megabyte2 so deeply engrossed in Ms. Pats sewing on her latest quilt project.  She just loves to watch the sewing machine work.


It's funny how she sometimes stands up and lays her ears back as if to say, “Oh No Mom, you made a mistake”!! Neither of us realized what a personality these pets can have. She has certainly become so much a part of our life that I can’t imagine what we would do without her. I continually thank God for having Scott send her to us.  Just think, I didn’t even used to like Cats very well.  I bet “Scooter” is sure smiling down upon us right now. Thank you Son.


Our Church had a big dinner Thursday evening.  It is called the "Legacy Banquet: Honoring and Serving our Widows".  It is for older folks that have lost their spouses or for some reason it is difficult for them to get out alone. They asked us be Ms Eva's chaperone and escort her to the Banquet.  Here we are with Ms Eva just before dinner was served.  Wow, I don’t get out much anymore, especially after dark.

If you think I look as if I’m not too comfortable, you would be thinking right!  But I did enjoy being out with these two "Lovely Ladies". This is the second year we have taken Ms Eva on a "dinner date". She is a great lady and a joy to be around.  She owns a beautiful home here in Wickenburg and has an RV that she leaves in Oregon, where she spends her summers.


Our friends and neighbors Paul and Nancy from North Ranch were there, too. I don’t believe Paul looks a bit more comfortable than I did. But we had fun, didn’t we Paul?


This was our table and the rest of the folks that we sat with. The Church and the tables were set up beautifully. They didn’t serve the dinner until 7 pm.  Wow, we usually eat at 5 pm and you know how us old folks get "set in our ways".  However, the dinner was great, I have to admit, but I was glad to get home.  We didn’t get home until 9pm and I haven’t driven after dark for a while but we made it safe and sound.  I went straight to bed, watched 5 minutes of the Fox news and was sound asleep....ZZZZZZZ. 

Not much exciting around here to Blog about, as you can tell. The weather did turn off beautiful and has been getting up close to the 70’s in the afternoons. We sure appreciate that!

About a year ago I made a little airplane trip with Duane. To check that blog out, click here:

"There I was at the Wickenburg AIRPORT"


A lot of folks are over at Quartzsite at all the different annual RV get togethers in that area but soon it will be time for the yearly “Boot Camp” held right here at North Ranch. A lot of them will be headed back this way and the campground will be full so if you plan on coming, better get here a few days early.  Here is the info on that and we hope you can drop by.

Escapees Boot Camp
Fri, 2/1 thru Sun, 2/3, in Activities Center.
Provides fundamentals for road safety, technical proficiency, and confidence for RVers.
Call (888)757-2582 for info.

It was a GREAT WEEK!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and hurry on back anytime.

Mike

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Goodbye Anonymous…

I started this Blog back in early 2007 and have posted over 500 blogs during that time. For the last few years I have been plagued with “Anonymous” commenters. It got worse and worse until a couple weeks ago I said “ENOUGH”! Most of them were out and out true “spam” and many not even written in English. Others were from people that just wanted to make a “snide” remark and didn’t have the guts to identify themselves. On each one of these comments, you must either approve them or delete them. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to get ride of them but they do become a real nuisance and disgusting.  Some of them were on Blogs that I had published several years ago.  It got to the point that this one Spammer posted a comment on one of my Blogs over 100 times in one day!! Can you believe that? 

So I thought I would stop this big time spammer that always commented on the same old Blog by just deleting that particular blog. I did that and hurray success....for a few days!  Then it began on another older blog post....same thing. Over 50 in one day. That’s when I decided, OK. that’s it, I’ve had enough. So I fixed my Blog, NO MORE Anonymous comments. WOW, what a relief!! It's been a couple weeks now and NO SPAM.  What a relief!

I really didn’t want to totally get ride of Anonymous because I do get a good one once in a while from someone that doesn’t know you don’t have to join before you can make a comment.  To those folks, I'm sorry. I hope you will continue reading my Blog and try commenting using just your first name. 

What a COLD spell we are having. Unusually long time for it to stay cold this long. Last Sunday the early morning low was `22* and the high was 41* for the day. Then Monday the low was 21*, with a high of 40.  We finally had some relief Tuesday with a low of 24 and it got way up to 45 for a high.  Had a regular “heat wave”!  This morning the low is 30 and they say by Thursday it will be in the mid 60’s. Man, I can’t wait. This has been all the cold weather I want to see for this year!! 


My friend and x-boss Ron, at Custer State Park, sent me this picture he took of the Buffalo the other day. What a beautiful picture. I remember days just like this back when I was young and helping Dad feed the cattle on our ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.  I’ll bet these guys are ready to see some warmer weather, too! It's been right around “0” up there in Custer this winter. That helps me feel a little warmer. 


I would like to Welcome our latest Followers:
Vicki
Chuck
Thank you both for joining us, we are happy to have you aboard and hope you stop by often.
I can remember not too long ago when I didn’t think we would ever get to 50 followers.  Wow!!  Vicki and Chuck take the count to 243, and I do believe we will soon reach “250”! Hallelujah!


Oh my, do we ever have a battle on the horizon.  It may even end up being a WAR!!   Lots of strong feelings on the subject, but the fur is about to hit the fan….I am sure of that!! Hang on!!

It is a GREAT WEEK!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and stay warm!

Mike

This Blog is Published every Wednesday and Sunday..

Oranges anybody?

Remember all those green oranges I showed you about a month ago on our orange trees? Well they have been growing and ripening more and more so I have been doing my best to save them from the cool temps that we have been having.


I have been covering them with about everything I have to cover with for a couple weeks. Thursday evening the newscasters told everyone it was going to get “real cold” and stay that way for several days. Friday morning it got down to 27*, but only for a couple hours.  The weather people said that was just a sample of what was coming and if we had any fruit that we wanted to save we better “pick it”.


So that afternoon I uncovered the trees and asked Ms. Pat if she would help me pick oranges. So we picked and we picked. We left about 1/2 of them as they were some still a little green and we had more than we would ever need.


As you can see we picked two big boxes. Some of them are a tad green and a little small yet but you know what, they are delicious!! They are "juice" oranges and really sweet.  They have a few seeds in them but who cares.  Whether the ones we left on the trees will survive or not, we will just have to wait and see.  I know I could put light bulbs under the covers but we just covered them all back up the way they were.  We'll take our chances and let Mother Nature do as she wishes.  We have plenty of ORANGES, so if you could use a few, come and get ‘em.

Lucky we picked what we did, when we did, because Saturday morning it got down to 27* and stayed that way for quite a while. Then last night (Sat. night) by 9:00 pm it was already down to 34* and this morning as I type this it is 23* and going down. They say this is the longest cold spell Arizona has had for years and years and possibly a new record.

When we got out to the Pistol Range yesterday morning at 8:30, it was still in the  low 30’s and we all had LOTS of clothes on. But it was our monthly steel shoot and we didn’t want to miss it. Shooting steel is hard and real good practice.  You really have to take a good aim. Aiming while you are shivering makes it extra hard but everybody was at the same disadvantage so it was a challenge. We managed to fire off just over 100 rounds each and were all done with all the different scenarios by 11:30.  As we headed home, we joked at how good the electric "Seat Heaters" in our Silverado felt.

Ms. Pat had a hair appointment after lunch and I had my usual appointment with TWO PISTOLS so. I cleaned guns!    Now, when I get back from Church today, I’m going to load some more ammo while Ms. Pat goes to the clubhouse and teaches her dance class.

It's still a busy place around here but I’m ready for winter to get over. Yep, I’m a yearnin' (dreaming) for those 55* mornings and 75* days.  Oh Boy, will I ever appreciate them!!

It was a GREAT WEEK!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and ya'll stay warm, ya' hear?

Mike

PS:  Some of you asked for the Shrimp and Corn recipe.  So I asked Ms Pat to put it in here.  It tastes REAL GOOD on these really cool days.

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Shrimp and Corn Soup

Sauté green onions (1 batch)

2 cans cream of shrimp

2 cans cream of potato

2 cans cream of chicken

2 lbs small shrimp

1 small bag of frozen corn (I use the white corn)  (You can use canned corn but I prefer frozen.)

1 stick of butter

1 cup milk

1 pint Half and Half

Tony's Creole Seasoning (it's spicy)

Sauté onions in 1/2 stick butter

Add other ingredients

Sauté shrimp in 1/2 stick butter in another pan

Add sautéed Shrimp to the pot of other ingredients.

Add Tony's to taste (Mike likes it spicy so I keep adding until it tastes just right.)

 

Serve with hot, fresh baked bread.

NOTE:  I cut this recipe in half unless I'm having company. It is still enough for a couple of meals for Mike and I.  You really need the Tony's Creole Seasoning to make it taste right.  Gina gave me a big container of it when we were in Louisiana because it's hard to find out West.

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(thanks Gina)

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Great Granddaughters

This is a picture of  great Granddaughters Cora and Alice during their first Christmas. Aren’t they beautiful? I wish we didn’t live so far away. Both Ms. Pat and I would love to “hold” them for a while.. 




Ms. Pat continues to make progress on her latest project. I certainly never realized how many hours of work went into these quilts. Sewing each and every one of those little tiny squares together takes some time and patience. Here she has the finished top laid out checking to see if she has everything just right and how it will look.  Yesterday after her ladies shooting class we stopped at the quilt store in Wickenburg and she picked up the backing she will use. She really loves doing this and although it looks like a lot of “work” to me, she says “It's fun”!

It was sure a pretty day around here yesterday.  Started the morning off with a cool 39*, but it was clear and sunny and warmed up to nearly 70* before the day was over.


It cools down very quickly when the sun goes down and it sure makes these wonderful soups like this Shrimp and Corn soup that Ms. Pat makes taste REAL GOOD!!!  Gina made this soup for us when we stopped to see them in Louisiana on our way from Florida to Arizona.  YUM YUM....very GOOD!  Thanks Gina!!!!  She gave Ms Pat the recipe and she's made it for us several times.


I want to welcome our latest follower DAVE. Dave has been with us for a while and I want to thank him for signing on.

Thank you all for taking the time from your busy schedule to stop by.

We are counting the days until JRoger and Susan get here to visit us on their very first trip WEST!! They're driving all the way from Florida in their new Motorhome.  I’ll be showing you more of it when they arrive.

It is a GREAT WEEK!!!!

God Bless You All.

Mike


This Blog is Published every Wednesday and Sunday..

North Ranch Visitors

One of our neighbors had this fellow up in their tree the other morning.  Not someone’s pet pup for sure. He doesn’t look very comfortable up there…..but he sure is a pretty guy!


I stepped out early the other morning and saw this big fellow staring back down at me. It was so dark I could hardly see him, but the camera brought him out pretty good.


His buddy was close by perched on the TV antenna. These guys are BIG! Here again it was so dark I could hardly see him in the camera but when I lighten the picture up a little, you can see him well.


A few days later, when I stepped outside early in the morning before daylight, they were both perched side by side on my cell phone antenna. They were both just “hootin” away at each other.  I slipped in and snuck back out in hopes to get a picture of them sitting there together like that but no such luck. One of them took off but this one stayed and was giving me quite a scary look.


This one is not camera shy.  Although it was really dark and I have lightened the photo up considerably, he sat right there and watched my every move.  They are well over a foot tall….and their “HOOT” is loud!


My wildgame camera doesn’t seem to be getting much wildlife anymore.  I don’t know what is the matter with it.  It sure doesn’t seem to be working right. Here is what looks like the south end of Mr. Coyote as he is going north.  It takes lots and lots of pictures of just the bare ground.   It's warranted for a year and I’ve had it for over that, so maybe that’s the life of it.

We went out to the Wickenburg Sportsmen's Club Saturday Tactical shoot yesterday.  It was 32* when we left North Ranch at 8:00am. I thought to myself, we are going to be the only ones foolish enough to come out in this cold weather and try to hit a target as we are shivering!  As I was going through Wickenburg, I noticed the thermometer on my truck said “23”!   Yikes, it was really cold at the Range but it soon warmed up and low and behold 27 other shooters showed up.  We had a great match!  Some fun shooting and really good practice for tactical shooting.

We were back home shortly after lunch time and Ms. Pat was busy as a bee working on her quilt and I was of course, cleaning guns!!  Seems about all I do is clean our guns.  I clean our guns every time we shoot them, which in most instances is at least 3 times a week. That’s 6 guns a week I need to clean.  The rest of my time I’m loading bullets because we go through an average of 600 bullets a week. That’s a lot of bullets and a lot of cleaning and loading. 

But, as my friend JRoger says, "When a man is cleaning his guns, he is “bonding” with his guns!" So I am bonding and getting mighty close to my guns but I really enjoy working with them.  I can’t think of a better way to spend these cool, wintery days, than out in my shop working on guns and loading bullets.  I have a dremel polisher and I polish the barrels and the feed ramps while I am cleaning them up "spick and span".  I have my Sirius/XM radio on,  listening to Willie Nelson’s Roadhouse channel #56, with all the neat country western  artists serenading me as I “bond” with my guns. :-)  Here's a few of my favorites:  Johnny Cash, Mel Tillis, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Roger Miller and dozens of others.   Blows my blues away……and time flies by.  

Life is good! Praise the Lord!!

It was a GREAT WEEK!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and may God take a liken to ya!!


AMEN!!

Mike

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We Are Off and Running for 2013 !

Here it is the 2nd day of January and we are off and running. On New Year's Eve day, my Dr. wanted to see me. What the heck??  A doctor appointment on New Year's Eve?  What goes here?  He wanted to see me in his office due to the results of some recent blood work. That kind of alarmed me but couldn’t it wait until some other day than New Years eve?  Ms. Pat told the nurse “OK, we will be there."  I hate that long trip way over to the East side of Scottsdale.  It's about 80 miles and seems like going to Texas.  Anyhow, on the morning of Dec 31st, we headed off to Scottsdale, AZ to “visit” with my Oncologist doctor.  We decided to get a bunch of shopping done as long as we were making the trip.


This is the beautiful sight we saw as we got close to Carefree, Az. north of Phoenix. These folks were
having fun and probably making their last flight for 2012.


This one flew right over the highway. What a beautiful balloon! Ms. Pat took this through the windshield with her iPad. Nice job, my Dear!!


We got a kick out of these overhead signs that were all over the highways in the Phoenix and Wickenburg area. “Drive Hammered------Get Nailed” !  I hope they got the message across to the right people.

We made it to the doctor's office and had our little meeting and made a few decisions on how to continue our defensive way of handling this Prostate Cancer thing.  If one thing quits working, as the Lupron shots have, they always have a few other tricks up their sleeve.  I feel like a Guinea pig…as they try all these new meds on me to see if they work.  But that’s OK...I've been biding my time pretty well so far.  I've been hassling with this since before 2000.  Wow...can't believe it's been 13 years.  Let's hope we can keep up a good fight for the next 13+ years.

After the doctor appointment, we took off shopping and getting supplies. We hit almost every store we could find. Costco's, Sam's, WalMart  and oh yeah, I even stopped at Sportsman's Warehouse where I found the last 8 lb. jug of gun powder they had. We hurried as fast as we could because we were anxious to get back to North Ranch.  It was New Year's Eve, you know, and Ms. Pat's line dance class was having their annual New Year's Eve dance.  Yep, I went and didn’t complain or moan and groan one time! (not out loud anyhow).   I had a good time and saw some good friends, and yes...I even danced at least once....with Ms. Pat of course!!   It was a cold night and we about froze riding the golf cart the long 3 blocks home!!

New Year's morning was the coldest morning we have had so far this winter.  I went out before I went to bed and turned the heat on in the Motorhome and in my shop.  When we woke up, it was a chilling 28*.  It managed to get up to a high of 50 and turned out to be a bright sun shiny day.   Ms. Pat even went out to the Pistol Range for her Ladies shooting class.  I stayed home and watched my Corn Huskers get beat by Georgia in the Capitol One Bowl game. It was a good game and Big Red was holding it's own and stayed barely in the lead until the 3rd quarter. Then things went, well you know “where” in a hand basket!!


I had to take a break away from the game on TV and play with Ms. Megabyte2 a few times.  Here she is hiding from me and her mouse behind the curtain. I bet she doesn’t realize her tail is sticking out!!


Ms. Pat made it home just before HAPPY HOUR, in which we had our traditional toast of Champagne as she was completing the preparation of the also traditional New Year's dinner of Greens, Black Eyed Peas and Ham with all the trimmings. It was simply delicious.  WOW, what a GAL!!!

Then at 6:30 the Florida State vs. Northern Illinois Football game started. It was the Orange Bowl in Miami and turned out much better, as FSU won!  It was a great game but I must admit that neither of us made it until the end…… close tho!!

It is a GREAT WEEK!!!!

We hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Day and it continues on throughout the year.

Thanks for stopping by and come on back again, any ole' time!

Mike

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