Rabbit Trails

  Ten years ago today, we had a white Christmas. It started snowing on Christmas Eve , and it was wonderful. A few of the kids stayed out in it for a really long time, in their pathetic *winter* coats. They wanted to enjoy every minute of it. It just kept snowing, and snowing, and snowing. Being from Kansas, I know that snow can be very different. It can come in a blizzard that stings your face at 30 m.p.h...... it can sort of just spit snow, it can come down kind of crumbly and dry, and it can come in huge flakes, all stuck together, that make snowballs. Snowball snow. That was the best kind of snow. That's the kind the   *Snow of 2004* was. The whole McEntire family was at PaPa and Granny's that year. There were piles of grandkids  running in and out all day. I'll never forget that Christmas.  And I'm sure we'll NEVER  have another one quite like it. For many reasons. Kids grow up, and it o...

    So, today is the last day of Autumn. It comes late here. So late sometimes, I wonder if it ever will come.    I love the color of the duplex across from us. It always looks so stylish during this time of year. The orange zinnias are pretty nice, too.    This little twig of a tree is in my Spider Tree Garden. It has put on its own little color show just for me. It wasn't affected by the plague going on in the back yard. It missed the black and moldy whatever that is covering everything that doesn't MOVE in the back yard.    You'd think that after 25+ years that I would be used to the way things are down here. Christmas and Autumn can happen the same week....... and this is when you pick citrus fruit from your trees.   I bought this lemon at a thrift store. For a quarter. It grew somewhere here in Brazoria county.... ****recently**** I'd love to see the tree it came from. I b...

  Sometimes it's hard to be on the coast. Where bananas grow.... and gets just cold enough each year, to knock my poor avocado tree out of commission.      It got up to 70 here today. November 20.        I figure if we get through the Winter season, and don't have to turn the A.C. on, for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's been a good year.   I love a stocking hat. A Snoopy stocking hat. Don't see them much around anymore. Maybe I'm not in the right state.   

Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not! Anon

We got a beautiful cool front last night. I really don't mind the hot weather that is coming, but it sure is nice to have a cool spell before summer is here to stay. It's 63 out now, the birds are singing......... you can almost hear things growing. Oh, we have an empty house next to us and our neighbor was over there doing the yard and I went and asked him if he would mind if we trimmed a couple of branches off of the ash tree on the south side of his yard. It's hanging on my side of the back yard and it's dribbling sticky sap and it is also making it solid shade where I have TRIED and TRIED to grow tomatoes year after year. He said...... cut the whole thing down. Wish we could do it right now. !!

I have a terrible time getting anywhere this time of year. I LOVE different colored leaves and I pick lots of them up......and press them in books........to save them.........for a hot summer day. Or even a warm winter day.........

Cool weather is here. It is sooooooooo pretty out today. I love FREE cold air. It is very expensive in the summer, but free right now.

Here we are all ready for Autumn.......but there have been no REAL cool fronts. Kind of like false labor. You think it is going to happen THIS time.....but it doesn't. OK, we've had a couple of cool days.......but we need some freezy breezy winds! Well, Happy Autumn to you that live in areas where there IS frost on your pumpkins.

this shows it is really cold out. I look at the flags and the steam? coming out of the chemical plant smokestacks to see which way the wind is blowing. It matters LOTS down here which the direction the wind is out of. Well, today it was out of the North and it is COLD. Cold to us is 55 and anything lower. If the wind is blowing, we can stand about 59, but that's about it. I decided today that I love our winters down here. We live where your seed catalogs say it is MILD, which is fine with me. We have nice springs too, they just don't last long enough. I love summer and the sun that makes my flowers grow. I like fall too, but it comes too late and is very fickle. I don't have any winter clothes to speak of, but that's fine. It might be 80 tomorrow and I'll forget all about the weather today.

(lydia speaking) Hello again!!!!!!! I'm at my Uncle Roddie and Aunt Frankie's house in this picture. They had a beautiful swing in their yard. Here I am swinging on it. It was kinda windy that day. Well, today me and my Mom are going to the Martin Luther King's parade. I think it starts at 12:00..... I think??? I might also get to pet some horses too! If I do, I will deffinitly take pics of the horses! *SMILES* Well, it's cloudy and drear out today again. The tempachure is slowly rising, slowly, but surely. Have a great day ya'll! Lydia~

Happy December! We are met with March like weather today.........I ought to go pull weeds, but I think I shall sew skirts instead. I'm glad the cinnamon rolls I made yesterday was still November, it would have been a horrible way to start a month. ugh

We had our first cool front. Yay.

October is a tiring month. The left temp is INSIDE .........WITH the ac on.

.........this is what my gardens look like!!!!!

It is going to be a freezy breezy day I can see. I like this kind of weather....just like we have it....... not very OFTEN. I enjoy the brisk air and the cold noses....but not very OFTEN. I don't know if I could live anywhere north of Angleton! I am going to Lake Jackson today to the bank and Wal-Mart. I will also be looking for some pink and black socks.....you know, "Good and Plenty" pink and black! When I get back I will prepare Kimberly's school for another week or so. That is....if I don't let the Piddles kill my day. "See you in the funny papers." Amelia Wilhelm